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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

6,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

General Monash's War Book First Instalment Appears In This Issue

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 1

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Life Insurance. 1,315,000 Policies in Australia. Progress in War Period

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 11

There are 1,315,251 life assurance policies in force in Australia. The sum assured is £152,710,312. The [?]nnual amount paid in premiums is…

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The Big Fight Dempsey Condemned Did Not Go to War Washington

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 1

It is announced that the match between Carpenter and Dempsey has been fixed for September 6, and will take place at New Jersey…

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Golf Notes Inferior Post War Form of Players Doings Among the Sydney Clubs: Several Ties

Referee · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 14

For some mysterious' reason, few, if any, players are showing anything like their pre-war form, and none of them seems to care that he is not playing so…

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Jewish Soldier Memorial London, January 11

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 1

The Jews in Great Britain propose to raise £1,000,000 to found a Jewish centre of learning as a war memorial to Jews who fought for the Empire…

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"Canonbury" A.J.C. Soldiers' Home To be Opened on January 23

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 6

"Canonbury," Darling Point, Sydney which some months ago was purchased for £18,500 by the Australian Jockey Club for a disabled soldiers and sailors' home…

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Returned Soldiers' Conference. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 9

A large and representative conference of the western branch of the Returned Soldier[?] and Sailors' League was held at Orange, Dr. Burkitt, of Dubbo, presiding…

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Trouble in Spain. Soldiers' Revolt Quelled. London, Jan. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 11

"A message from Madrid reports a revolutionary, outbreak among the soldiers at Saragossa. They attacked the barracks, and killed a lieutenant…

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The Sea-Shell And The Soldier - Crab

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 27

CLACK! Clack! Clacking! Clack! Clack! Clacking! The Soldier-Crabs were marching over the damp sands, away towards the sea, where the little waves come running swiftly to meet the great army. In…

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Soldiers and Fiancees Ulysses' List

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1920 · page 5

The following is a list of soldiers' dependents and fiancees, who embarked by the steamer Ulysses, which left England on December 28:--…

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Lassetter's Welcome Home

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 3

A picnic and sports meeting, arranged by the Arm and employees, was held at the Avenue, Lane Cove River," to officially welcome home a number of returned soldiers,…

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The Class War

The Australian Worker · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 15

What do we all want? As consumers, we want a sufficiency of necessaries for all and just so much of other things as cap be produced without interfering with that…

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The Way of War

The Australian Worker · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 15

(Who can deny that this picture by Tolstoy shows what happens when the thunders of war are heard around the world? Our own age, crammed with war…

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War Service Homes. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 6

The War Service Homes Commission has decided to erect between 500 and 600 houses annually in this State for the next 10 years, the work to be carried out by the day-labour…

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Wool Kings and Their War Profits

The Australian Worker · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 7

All through the war there wag no more patriotic body of citizens than the squatters of this country. They were, always well to the front when our boys needed…

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What Victor Hugo Thought of War

The Australian Worker · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 17

Let us dishonor war. No; glorious war does not exist. No; it is not good and it is not useful to make corpses. No; it cannot be that life travails for death. No…

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Rifles Rule in Egypt. British Troops Fire on Cairo Demonstrators. 130 Killed and Wounded

The Catholic Press · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 19

Ten Egyptians were killed, and more than 120 seriously wounded in conflicts between the people and the Imperial forces in Cairo on Sunday, November 16…

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Federal Servants. Non-payment of War Bonus

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 5

Mr. W. G. Piper (president, New South Wales Post and Telegraph Association) states that the failure of the Government to pay the war bonus awarded to Federal pubilc…

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War Gratuity Redeeming the Bonds MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 4

A conference has been held between Mr. Watt, Federal Treasurer, Mr. Denison Miller, Governor of the Commonwealth Back. Mr. J. R. Collins…

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New Diseases Appetite Perversion Result of War Experiences

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 2

Of all the maladies to which human flesh is heir those which are directly and indirectly the result of under-nutrition and starvation are the most…

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