Wind and Mirage Shooting at Anzac 18 Clubs Out
Most of the shooting by 18 clubs at Anzac rifle range yesterday was from the middle mounds, only two or three clubs using the long distances. A fitful breeze…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1926
3,102 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 156
PHYSIQUE War Lessons Recalled
The renaissance of the Grecian ideal system for the development and strengthening of the human body is of comparatively recent date…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →For Australia? War Office's Meat Contract Government Intervenes
Government pressure in favor of Dominion tenderers' is being exerted on the War Office, which has been in the habit of obtaining supplies' from foreign sources. A large proportion of its next big meat contract, it is said, may be secured by Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rifle Shooting. Good Scoring. at Anzac
The attendance at Anzac on Saturday was a great improvement on the previous week, and the scores recorded were about the best compiled at the range for a long time. It was a good day for shooting, in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Shooting Mystery. Man Wounded. Jerilderie
A man about 25 years of age was shot in the right side of the head on Saturday morning on the bank of the creek in West-street. He refused to give his name, and now lies…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Memorial. Perth's Difficulties. Perth
The State War Memorlal Committee appealed to the Premier (Mr. R. Collier) to-day for funds on a £ for £ basis, to crect a monument. The committee stated that it had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Iwate Here a War Veteran Japanese Cruiser
The Iwate, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war, and now a training ship in the Japanese Navy, entered the Heads shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tenants Clear Out War Service Homes Commission's Policy
The War Service Homes Commission is not disposed to hand over to a former tenant any surplus resulting from the re-sale of a war service…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Profit to the Commission War Home Re-sales Tricks of Tenants
IN A LETTER to the Returned Soldiers' League the War Service Homes Commission pointed out that it was not disposed to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wordy War of "Wet" & "Dry" in U.S. Congress Church's View Has Members Guessing Washington
THE EPISCOPAL Prohibition referendum has precipitated one of the greatest sensations since the Volstead Law was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the Museum Soldier Ants
THE recent sad death of an old man through the stings of soldier ants brings home the fact that in this country we have some of the most formidable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldiers. Wagga
At the annual meeting of the Wagga branch of the Roturned, Soldiers' Association, Mr. Charles A. Healey was elected president. The report showed that good work in [?] interests…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Anzac's Commander to Pay Divorce Costs Melbourne
Capt. Cavendish, Commander of the destroyer Anzac, was to-day ordered by the Divorce Court to pay costs in a divorce case in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stabbing Affray Man and Woman Wounded Melbourne
A small weatherboard cottage in North Melbourne was the scene of a stabbing affray at about one o'clock this afternoon. James Davidson was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stabbing Affray. Man and Woman Wounded. Melbourne
Another stabbing affray, involving serious results that may yet prove fatal, occurred in Melbourne Bhortly after midday to-day, when a man and a woman were found in a house…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Canberra War Memorial
The time for the receipt of competitive designs for the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, has been extended from March 31 to April 30…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Both Confessed" Wife and Commander of the Anzac Divorce Court Story Fight with Husband in Sydney Hotel Melbourne
The infatuation of the wife of a Melbourne bank manager for an Australian naval officer was related in the Divorce Court before Mr. Justice Macfarlane. The suit was one in which Gordon…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Letter Bag the Deserted Wives and the Widows' Pensions "The War Is Over"? To the Editor
SIR,—I consider Mr. Lang's Widows' Pension Bill a bitter injustice to the wives who have been deserted by their soldier husbands. Mine left me five years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldier and Surf Rescuer on Theft Charge
DETECTIVE MILLER told Mr. Giles Shaw, C.S.M. at the Central Court to-day, that John Norman Grace, 28, dealer, who was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers' Club at the Barracks Alderman's Charge Story of Drinking
ALD. THWAITES declared at Paddington Council last night that anyone who cared to wait at the main gate at Victoria…
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