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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

4,638 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 232

War Service Homes Building in Goulburn GOULBURN

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 6

The local branch of the War Service Homes Commission has Just concluded a year's work in this city. Seven brick houses have been completed…

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To be Paid by Germany French War Claims This Month PARIS

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 1

Germany has notified that she will settle outstanding French war compensation claims before January 1[?]…

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Remembering the Heroes Giving Soldiers a Treat

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 2

The members of the Auburn branch of the Red Cross Society paid a visit to Hut 14 at Randwick Hospital on Xmas Eve, and took with them hampers of Xmas…

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The Soldiers' Memorial

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 6

Rumors are abroad that all is not going too smoothly in regard to the Soldiers' Memorial. Where the hitch really is we are not at the present privileged to say…

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Penrith Soldiers' Memorial What Is Wrong with the Movement? More Energy Sadly Needed

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 1

What's wrong with the Penrith Soldiers' Memorial movement? Is it dead, dying, asleep, or merely suffering from the tired feeling?…

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Penrith Soldiers' Memorial

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the Penrith Soldiers' Memorial will be held at the School of Arts next Thursday, at 8 p.m. The last couple of attempts to…

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Returned Soldier's Death Young Man Exonerated WELLINGTON

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 4

The inquest concerning the death of Frank Holden, 40 years of age. a native of Bombay, and who served with the A.I.F., was concluded yesterday by the…

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Soldiers' Homes Parramatta Criticism

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 4

Mr. F. O. Walker, foreman of War Service Homes at parramatta. wrote to the parramatta Council:—"In view of the many criticisms levelled against these…

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The Green Snake Worshippers. Weird Adventure of a Soldier-artist. (See Illustration on Page 1.)

The World's News · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 1

FROM Hayti (West Indies) an American soldier-artist. Herbert Jaegerhuber, brings a weird story of Haytian Voodooism. Born in Hayti, his father, who was an American…

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New Year Gift Old Age Pension for Soldier's Mother How Commonwealth Repays Sacrifice

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 3

When a soldier who fell was the only son of his mother, and she a widow, it might be expected that even the Repat. Dept. would give the mother a decent…

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Sailors' and Soldiers' Parliament Successful Diggers Men Who Have Settled Down in Civil Life

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 23

With the New Year, the work of repatriation is almost complete. Much has been said and written of the grievances of the Diggers. These latter have been serious in Many oases. But the bulk of the Diggers have now resumed civil avocations, and the…

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Soldiers' Homes. Housebuying Stopped

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mr. Rodgers, the Acting-Minister for Repatriation, points out that the object of the establishment of the War Service Homes Commission was to provide…

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Returned Soldiers. Motions Adopted by Executive. Invitation to Viscount Haig

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 14

A number of important proposals came up for discussion at the list meeting of the Federal executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League…

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Premier Theodore And the Brisbane Anzac Memorial

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 5

Theodore, the Premier of Queensland, is neither a capitalist nor the friend of the capitalists. He succeeded Labor Premier T. J. Ryan as the head of the…

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Wonderful Models for War Museum Sculptor's Work in Reproducing Battlefields-Colossal Memorial for Second Division

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-Memories of stirring and wonderful days in France will be revived among thousands of Aus-tralia's best citizens by the group of…

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Haunting the Premier Queer People with Dark Secrets Win-the-war Recipes Strange Newcomer Every Day

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 13

Of all the queer people who haunted Downing-street, men with infallible recipes for winning the war were the most guileless and the most…

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What Is War's Share in Economic Difficulties? Only a Speeding-up Factor-Land Question at Root of Trouble

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 5

Mr. Evans here argues that the economic difficulties of to-day may have been hastened, but were not caused, by the war. They are, he holds, the result of a basic error In the control of property. As he sees It, the trouble began with the enclosure of land In the fourteenth…

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The Future of Finance What to do With the War Debts-Special Levies Favored As Against Heavy Taxation

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 4

In his previous article-Profesor Irvine explained what the war debts really are, and on whose shoulders the weight of them is likely most heavily to bear. Here he goes on to discuss methods of dealing with these debts. The alternatives cited are repudiation, extra taxation,…

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Ready-made Homes. The Wail of the "Jerry-Builder". War Service Homes Commission Methods. An Exceptional Case Calling for Consideration

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 9

What, no doubt, must be considered an aftermath of the unpleasant disclosures connected with the erection of War Service Homes is the decision of…

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Soldiers' Handicrafts

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1921 · page 11

Gratuity bonds are being accepted by the Repatriation Department in exchange for goods made by trainers purchased at the Repatriation Showrooms, 248…

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