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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

3,759 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 188

Buried Together Soldier's Wife's Death Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 9

A pathetic circumstance has attended the death of Lieut.-Colonel C. Morley, which occurred at his residence at St. Kilda yesterday…

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For the Sick Soldier

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 7

Friday, February 24, will be Soldiers Day in the city and metropolitan area The voluntary services of a large number of ladies have been enlisted The…

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Huge Cross of Poppies Royalty's Tribute to Earl Haig "Soldier of Empire" London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 4

There has been a ceaseless procession past Earl Haig's coffin, in St. Giles' Cathedral, at Edinburgh. The largest wreath is a 6ft. St…

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French Attack on U.S.A. Submarine "Hypocrisy" Volte Face U.S.A. and War "Only a Bluff" Paris Press Critical Paris

Evening News · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 1

THE Press describes Mr. Kellogg's suggested abolition of submarires as hypocritical and egotistical…

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Danger Of Dengue Fever Spreading To Sydney Declare War on Mosquitoes, Says Dr. Dick "Attack Pest in Breeding Places"--Disease Spreads Towns Suffer Most

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 5

What are the chances of the mosquito, which carries dengue fever, coming as far south as Sydney?…

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Welcome Home

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 21

A SPECIAL reception is being arranged by the committee of the Lord" Mayor's Armenian Relief Fund, to welcome Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bryce,…

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Woman Wounded Laborer for Trial

Evening News · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 9

JOHN Miller, 30, laborer, committed for trial from the Central Court to-day on a charge of having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily…

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Pig Pursued in Anzac Parade -- 19 Years in Tibet

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 8

A HELPING HAND was what this military policeman required after a spill from his bicycle at Holdsworthy Gamp…

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War Memories in Europe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 4

At the first meeting for the year of the Sailors and Soldiers' Mothers, Wives, and Widows' Association, held at the Empire Hall, Castlereagh-street, yesterday afternoon, Mr…

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The Goat War. Police Prosecutions. Wrangle Goes On

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 12

Shades of Gilbert[?] How he would have revelled in the abundance of material that exists in the goat war that has burst over Sydney to keep her sportsmen in a simmer of…

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Bruce Double Peace and War Olive Branch and Bludgeon

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 5

Speaking at a gathering held to commemorate the handing over of the functions of the Australasian Council of Federated Unions to the…

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Annual Sports Rydalmere Mental Hospital Nurses Win Tug-of-war

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 2

Rydalmere Mental Hospital is one of he historic places of the district. The buildings, which house 1050 patients, are very extensive, and, for the most part,…

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War on Tin Hare A.r.c.'s Ultimatum to "Books" Clash Meetings

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 2

AT yesterday's meeting of the A.H.C. Board of Management, it was unanimously decided that A.R.C registered bookmakers who operate at…

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SECEDE? A.W.U.'s Threat Aloof at Elections Bailey on War Path Hobart

The Sun · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 13

The Bailey (N.S.W.) group on the A.W.U. Conference have had their industrial policy endorsed by the Convention, and,…

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Long Queue Passes Great Soldier's Body

Evening News · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 12

SINCE Saturday morning a continuous stream of mourners has passed the body of Earl Haig in St. Giles' Cathedral at Edinburgh. When the doors of…

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Ex-soldier Lived with One Lung Turk Cut Throat With Indian's Kukri LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 4

An ex-soldier's sufferings, after he had been captured at Kut-el-Amara (Mesopotamia), were recalled at an inquest on Herbert Burns, who joined…

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T.B. Soldiers' Association

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 6

H. G. Wells dislikes the rules:-- The position of the above association is that there is no association, only an- executive…

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War With America?

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 4

NO more awful evidence of the dangerous working of capitalist competition can be cited than the constant sinister references to the possibility of war between Great Britain and the United States of America…

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Beating the War Drums

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 11

UNITED STATES Rear Admiral Plunket dropped a bomb into the international camp when he stated in New York a few days ago that the United…

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Trade Rivalry and War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 7

ADMIRAL PLUNKETT, of the United States Naval Department, states that America's foreign commerce is now as far-reaching as that of Britain, and…

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