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The wars & local soldiers, 1927

3,787 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 190

Man Stabbed. Wounded with Knife. Affray at Glebe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 10

In an affray which occurred in Cowperstreet, Glebe, about 8 o'clock last night, William Grant, aged 23 years, of Alexandria, was stabbed a numbers of times with a pocket…

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Unity and War

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 10

BEFORE the world-war Europe contained twenty six separate States belong between them fairren monesary currencies…

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War Against Diabetes Insulin Discovery

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 6

Dr. Cashmir Funk, of Warsaw poland who has sucreded in depositing insulin and isolatins the substances contained in it has explained…

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Cook's Dream Great Class War London

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 1

In a farewell letter to his Russian comrades, Mr, A. J. Cook, general secretary of, the British Miners' Federation, according to the Riga…

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Bruce Visits Tomb of Unknown Soldier Washington, D.C.

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 1

Yesterday Mr. Bruce laid a wreath on the tomb of the American Unknown Soldier in a simple ceremony that lasted but a few moments, yet was marked by…

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32 Wounds and Forced to Beg Ex=soldier's Plight London

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 5

"It seems amazing that a man with such a career should have no pension, and should be forced to beg," said a Marylebone magistrate yesterday,…

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Man Shot Struggle With Policeman Wounded Man Fights Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 5

Constable Kroemer, of Henley Beach was startled when, shortly after 7 o'clock on Saturday night, Edward Villiers (22) came to the…

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Wounded Men Crawl Into Swamps to Die Vultures Horrors of Civil War Nicaraguan Battle U.s.a.'s Position

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

After the fiercest battle that has marked the present civil far in Nicaragua, over 300 dead men were left unburied and 150 wounded men crawled into the mosquito-laden swamps to die, while the air overhead was thick with vultures…

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Killed the Snake But Wounded Mother and Son MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

Seeing a snake in the washhouse on New Year's Day, Mrs. R. Crisp, of Wedderburn, called a neighbor, Mr. G. Olive, to kill it. He secured a gun…

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"I'm Shot!" Chinese Cook Wounded Man Arrested Attempted Murder Charge Rockhampton

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

Aramac in the Central West, was the scene of a serious shooting affair about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It appears that an employee at the…

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The War Museum Is Popular with All

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

Many and varied are the ways in which the thousands of city and suburban dwellers spend the numerous holidays that occur throughout the…

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Royal Tour Gallant Sailors Renown's Officers Fine War Records London

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

SOME of the associates of Captain N. A. Sullivan, of H.M.S. Renown, which will take the Duke and Duchess of York on their tour…

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300 Unburied After Liberals' Win Nicaraguan War When Vultures Hover Managua

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

THE blood[?] battle of the present civil war in Nicaragua has ended at Pearl Leg[?], where, after three, days fighting, the Liberals…

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British Labor War Against the Communists Outspoken Bishop London, Monday, Jan. 3

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

Mr. A. J. Cook (secretary, Miners' Federation) celebrated his return from Moscow by an outspoken declaration in favor of Leninism…

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Motor-tyre War Britain Hit Hard Foreign Price-cutting Heavy Importations London

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

MILLIONS of pounds have been lost by British motor-tyre companies in consequence of a price-cutting war between French…

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Fire Victims Help for Soldier Settlers Albury

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

Gifts of 110 bags of seed wheat, 20 bags of seed oats, 65 tons of hay and chaff, besides fence posts and building material were promised at a…

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War Service Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 4

The War Service Homes' Commission's activities still continue, and in this issue tenders are invited for the erection of cottages at Canterbury, Rose Bay, Kogarah. Lane Cove,…

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Fight in Dark Wounded Man and Burglar Struck with Jemmy Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 13

As Harry Anderson, engineer at Swallow and Ariel's ice cream factory at South Melbourne, went, to turn on a light early this morning his hand…

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Stop Press. Portugal's War Debt. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 12

A message from Lisbon says that the funding of the war debt to Britain has caused the greatest enthusiasm in Portugal. Officers of the Braga…

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Hard Hit Merchants at Hongkong Effect of War

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 8

Big merchants and shipping men in Hongkong are passing through a very trying period: said Mr. D. W. Roxburgh, a director of Messrs. S…

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