The Largest Hotel in Australia Hotel Metropole the Mecca of Overseas, Inter-state, and Country Travellers
Sunday Times · Sunday 10 February 1929 · page 6
BUILT on the site originally dedicated for Sydney Town Hall, the "Metropole" has for nearly a generation been an architectural landmark dominating the city, and also been the Mecca of the overseas, interstate, and country travellers, who have enthusiastically, made the Hotel the headquarters for their holiday or business trips to the metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere…
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The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1929 · page 2
Devastating floods have occurred at Gloucester, Kempsey, and other towns on the northern rivers. A young man from Sydney and a local railway guard were drowned at Gloucester while swmiming the current, and a large portion of a block of buildings was torn from…
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Evening News · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 9
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 1
Bert James Whiting, at the Liverpool Police Court last Thursday, was charged with having ridden a motor cycle while under the influence of liquor on the…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 4
On the night of January 16, Sergeant Walsh saw Robert Ernest Duncan and a man named Ryan enter a side gate leading to the rear of the Locomotive Hotel at…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 15
A disastrous fire occurred at Minyip on Saturday night, when five weatherboard shops and their contants were destroyed, and a brick hotel was gutted…
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The Labor Daily · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 1
As a result of the popularity of Richmond Brewery beer, the B[?] Oak Hotel Fitzroy which specialises in this new make of ale hasbeen…
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The Labor Daily · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 6
Grave anxiety is felt for the safety of Harold Charles Owen, 30, who mysteriously disappeared on Saturday afternoon from the house at which…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 2
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A violent clash between seamen and waterside volunteers took place in the bar of an hotel at Port Adelaide yesterday. A…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Five shops and a brick hotel in the main street of Minyip were destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 6
At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted:âErnest Joseph Lappan to John Kennedy, Royal Oak Hotel, Balmain; William Hackett…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 8
At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions yesterday, William Gordon Held, 34, a publican, was charged with having falsely sworn to Mr, Gibson, P.M., at Campbelltown, when applying…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 7
The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) yesterday said that it was unwise to give motor licenses to youths of 16 years…
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Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 10
"THE mere fact that a man's name is put up over the door of a how docs not prove that he is the licensee." said Mr. Justice James in…
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Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 13
FURTHER evidence was such to-day in the case of Rev. Anderson, 42 and Eugene Spalding, 21. charged with having conspired to…
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The World's News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 29
THE Waldorf Astoria, New York's leading hotel a generation ago, and still one of its most prominent hostelries, is giving way before the northward march of New York's…
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The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19
An application was to-day made in Chambers to Mr. Justice James to make absolute a rule nisi for a writ of prohibition, on behalf of…
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The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 6
According to the estimates of the various societies interested in the prevention of cruelty to animals, about 250.000 dogs are, during the next few…
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The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 5
THE nationalisation of the liquor industry and the early closing of hotels was one of the important measure desk with by the A. L. P. Metropolitan Conference last night. An attempt to have the number of…
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The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 4
Wolfe's Schnapps and King George Whisky, not of the quality demanded, were sold by Hannah McClurcan. licensee [?] the Wentworth Hotel, to an…
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