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Hotels & licensing, 1949

929 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 47

Famous Hotel Murder Case

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 5

When bearded Frenchman Jean Pierre Vaquier began an illicit association with the wife of a…

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Famous Hotel Murder Case

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 5

When bearded Frenchman Jean Pierre Vaquier began an illicit association with the wife of a…

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Famous Hotel Murder Case

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 5

When bearded Frenchman Jean Pierre Vaquier began an illicit association with the wife of a…

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Men shun drinking in hotels LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 10 July 1949 · page 5

"BRITAIN is in danger of becoming a nation of lonely and secret drinkers, according to some…

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Publicans lose through pickets

The Sun · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 3

Picketing of hotels in the Mascot area, last January, cost hotelkeepers £1000 a week, police said at Redfern Court…

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£1000 Week Loss by 3 Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 5

Three hotels in the Mascot area each lost about £1000 a week in January 'last year when Mascot…

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£1000 Week Loss by 3 Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 5

Three hotels in the Mascot area each lost about £1000 a week in January last year when Mascot…

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£1000 Week Loss by 3 Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 5

Three hotels in the Mascot area each lost about £1000 a week in January last year when Mascot…

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£1000 Week Loss by 3 Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 5

Three hotels in the Mascot area each lost about £1000 a week in January last year when Mascot…

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Book Review Hotel de la Reine

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 6

THIS work, by a Canadian author, is charmingly written. The hero, Felix, about whom a book has already appeared by the same writer, has…

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Theft From Hotel Day's Takings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 5

A young man, covering his face with a haversack, entered the Cabramatta Hotel last night and…

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Masked Man Robs Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 9

A masked, barefooted robber who raided a hotel last night used his mask, a peg bag, to carry away…

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Charge Of Hotel Theft

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

Detectives today recovered £71 and a quantity of liquor allegedly stolen last night from the…

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£72 Grab on Takings of Hotel

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

With an Army haversack pulled over his head, a man last night entered the kitchen of the…

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£72 Grab on Takings of Hotel

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

With an Army haversack pulled over his head, a man last night entered the kitchen of the…

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Mae West sties hotel

The Sun · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Actress Mae West today sued the Hotel Chatham, New York, for 250,000 dollars (£78,125)…

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Police seize man on hotel roof

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1

Police early this morning climbed on to the roof of a city hotel and seized an intruder They took the intruder,…

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Hotel Maid Fell for Romance in Kitchen

Truth · Sunday 17 July 1949 · page 24

A trusting soul was Kathleen Pearl Lyne, one-time maid at Tattersall's Hotel, Glen Innes. But then, she was in love—very much in love—and the apple of her eye was the chef—none other than…

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Mae West Fell In Hotel, Claims Dollars

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 17 July 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, July 16 (A.A.P.).—Actress Mae West to-day sued New York's Hotel Chatham for 250,000 dollars…

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Church holds special service for publicans LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 17 July 1949 · page 5

THE vicar of Crowle, Lincolnshire, the Rev. H. D. Speakman, believes that the Church and the pub have a close affinity. At 2.30 pm tomorrow he is holding a special church…

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