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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

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Soldiers' Day Appeal on

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1926 · page 2

The Katja Stall, to assist the Soldiers' Day appeal on Friday, has received many generous donations, both from private individuals and from…

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Soldier Settlers Relief Legislation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1926 · page 4

Under the provisions of the Returned Soldiers' Settlement Amending Act, which was passed by Parliament last year, the Minister for Lands is…

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Rev. Father R. LONERGAN, P.P. Welcome Home, an Enthusiastic Meeting

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 20

After a twelve months' holiday tour abroad, Rev. Father E. Lonergan, P.P., returned to resume the charge of his parish, St. Mel's, Campsie, last week, and…

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War on Mosquitoes

Evening News · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 1

HomebuBh Council decided last night to support Lidcombe. Concord, Burwood, and. Strathfield councils in en-deavoring to establish a scheme to…

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Sculptor at War Museum

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 18

Sir Bertram Mackennal spent a couple of hours at the War Museum last night in company with Captain Bean, the official War Historian, and…

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War Wisdom 5th Brigade Camp

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 2

More advanced tactical work (embodying the lessons of the war) than has ever before been attempted in New South Wales, will mark the 5th…

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N.S.W. Jewish War Memoriae. (Maccabean Institute.)

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 7

No governing body can “carry on” successfully unless it receives adequate support from those directly interested…

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Doctors at War B.m.a. Denounces Prominent Men "Infamous" Conduct Health Society Provokes Controversy

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 1

The activities of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and other leading medical men in Great Britain in connection with the recently formed Health Society, have roused the ire of the B.M.A., which stigmatises as "infamous" the conduct of doctors who write as some…

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Workers for Soldiers' Day

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 19

Mrs. E. Croft with the friends who will assist her at her stall to-morrow. From left to right the picture shows:--Back row: Mrs. Arthur Carpenter, Mrs. H. C. McIntyre, Mrs. Norma Taylor, Mrs. F. Holdridge, Miss Mary Doberer, Middle row: Miss B. Howse, Mrs. C. H. Tindale, Mrs. E. Croft, Mrs, S. Standford…

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Soldier Settlers Sympathetic Minister Labor's Beneficent Act

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 5

Mr. Loughlin, Minister for Lands, has arranged to send a letter to every soldier settler setting out exactly what concessione…

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Soldiers' Day

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 6

MRS. PERCY DAWSON, who is a very keen worker, is to have her stall on Soldiers' Day at The Ambassadors. She will be…

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Two Shot Domestic Tragedy Husband Dead Wife Badly Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 1

A young married man shot his wife in a house at Military Road, Guildford, late last night, and then turned the revolver upon himself…

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War Over War Memorial Hurstville Again Some Straight Talk

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 6

THE QUESTION of moving the soldiers memorial me[?] from Railway Square Hurstville to a new site near the…

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Guildford Tragedy Quarrel's Sequel Husband Suicides Wounded Wife in Serious Condition!

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 1

LAST NIGHT'S tragedy at Guildford, when Keith James Latty, 30, shot his wife and fatally wounded…

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Capitalist “Peace” Means Industrial War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 2

Peace is necessary in Europe in order that there may be chances of success in conquering the East, and the frontiers of the East do not commence from the Caucasian…

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War Memorial by Sir Bertram Mackennal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 8

Decision in favor of a memorial to those who fell during the war being designed by Sir Bertram Mackennal, and erected in Martin Place, has been made by the committee…

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Army Meat British War Office Australia Successful

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 8

For the first time since the war Australia has secured the whole of a contract to supply the British War Office with tinned meat. The…

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War Memorial. for Martin-place. Design by Sir Bertram Mackennal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 11

It was learned yesterday that a war memorial in honour of the soldiers who fell in the Great War would probably be erected in Martin-place…

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To Salvage War Wrecks To-day's Appeal Rattle of Boxes

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 7

TO-DAY is Soldiers' Day, and thousand of people in the city the country and the suburbs are having their thoughts directed…

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Helen Or. Tariff Who Started War ? Vpilliewinkie" Prowse Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 7

"I suppose they'll tell as Helen of Troy never caused a war. She was only dragged as a red herring across the trail. The tariff caused the…

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