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The wars & local soldiers, 1909

1,195 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 60

Aviation. England Purchases the Wright Aeroplane a War Office Invitation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Mr. Wilthur Wright has accepted the invitation of the War Office lo visit England. Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for…

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Aeronautics. War Office Move. Mr. Wilbur Wright's Visit. London, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 7

Mr. Wilbur Wright has accepted an invitation from the British War Office to Visit England, and Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, is purchasing an…

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Fallen Soldiers Memorial. Perth, (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 7

The condition of the Fallen Soldiers' Memorial in King's Park is such as to occasion considerable concern. The figures on the pedestal are rusting so rapidly that fears are…

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Football. Rugby Union. Welcome Home to Australian Team

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 16

The New South Wales Rugby Union has decided to extend a welcome home to the Australian team at the Hotel Australia on Monday, March 22 at noon…

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Succour of the Wounded in War. the Royal Army Medical Corps Volunteers and Major Richardson's Dogs Inspected in Hyde Park

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 5

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War Correspondents. Russell at St. Paul's

Evening News · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 3

The "animated" bust of the journalist who was styled the father of the modern war correspondent now adorns St. Paul's Cathedral. The veteran Sir Evelyn "Wood, we are told, took a…

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"Boer War Lost Every Month." What Emigration Costs Britain

The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 15

"Free trade, free competition, has the effect not only of levelling down wages to the level of the lowest competing countries," says Mr. J. Kills Barker, writing in the "Nineteenth Century, but also of…

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Conquest of the Air Successful Aeroplane Trials. War Office Attention Invited

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 9

LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, who is president of the Aerial Experiment Association of Canada, is experimenting at Bras…

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A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter LII—Continued

Nepean Times · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 8

"Prove it." said Baltar, "by accepting the husband whom your family have chosen for you. Too often has the wolf desolated the fold of Judah. I will, if…

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Soldier and Sailor Emigrants. New British Scheme. London, March 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 13

Influenced by Australian and Canadian suggestions, Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, has included in the army estimates £40,000 sterling to initiate a…

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A Soldier's Wife. Suit for Separation. the Petition Dismissed

The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 15

Before Mr. Justice Bring in the Divorce Court today Anne Ruth Cronin, formerly Hatton, petitioned for a decree of judicial, separation from John Cronin on the ground…

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The Terrors of Invasion. Famous Soldier on the New Patriotic Play. "The Descriptions (Of Invasion) Are As Rosewater to Fish Manure."

The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 31

Field Marshal Sir Evelyn. Wood, V.C., writes as follows in the London "Express": You ask me for my opinion on the play. "An Englishman's Home," or "Woe to the…

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Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes

The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 9

"A power whose morning drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth." --DANIEL WEBSTER. Captain A. J. Longmuir has been appointed officer…

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Two Characters of War. Isandlwana

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 14 March 1909 · page 11

On January 22, 1879, there occurred the disaster to the 24th Regiment at Isandiwana. The British force consisted of six Companies of the 24th Regiment, some Natal…

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Natives Well Armed. Possibilities of a Native War

Evening News · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 5

Captain Chas. Menmuir, master of the steamer Upolu, brought his vessel into Port Jackson on Sunday night, after the usual cruise among the islands of the Pacific, visiting the…

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Financial Tug-of-war. How to Avoid Extra Taxation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 7

The publication on Saturday of the text in the "Herald" of the resolutions carried at the Premiers' Conference attracted the attention of several members of the Federal Parliament,…

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Boer War Lost Every Month

The Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 4

A. G. Huie writes:-- Under the above title you quote the substance and conclusions of a writer in the "Nineteenth Century." Evidently he is one…

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Wounded Man's Candor. Charge of Intent to Murder Dismissed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 14

Edward Charles Carroll (23), talesman, was charged, at the Central Police Court yesterday, with maliciously shooting at one Thomas Brown, with intent to murder him, at Sydney, on March 5…

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Russo-turkish Compromise. War Indemnity Payments Postponed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--The financial arrangements between Russia and Turkey have been concluded. The compromise frees Turkey from…

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Notes of the Week. the War in the Air

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 8

Count Zeppelin's new airship has flown 120 miles in 2½ hours over Lake Constance. Aerostatists af the front of the great problem of the conquest of the air have in the…

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