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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Lucky Balloon Soldiers' Cabaret Committee Meet

Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14

MRS. JOHN GARLICK presided at e meeting, held in the Went worth lounge yesterday, in connection with the Limbless Soldiers…

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Limbless Soldiers' Cabaret

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 6
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The first meeting to make arrangements for a cabaret to be held in aid of the Limbless Soldiers Association took place in the Lounge at the Wentworth Hotel yesterday afternoon…

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Intense Cold. Throughout Europe. Harrowing Tales. Soldiers Devoured by Wolves. LONDON, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 11

Although there were thaws in a few isolated places, Europe, from the Baltic to the Adriatic and the Black Sea, is still frost-hound. Recruits of the Albanian army,…

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Returned Soldiers' Activities. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12

It was mentioned by the president at the annual reunion of the Katoomba-Leura subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League that £330 was expended by the sub-branch in…

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A Welcome Home

The Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 7

Albury, Wednesday.--Rev. William Slattery, Administrator of St. Patrick's R.C. Church, who recently returned from a trip to Ireland was…

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Prejudice, Bigotry and War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 5

PREJUDICE comes of ignorance, big [?]try of fear—or if not of fear, then of an unconscious sense of inferiority; which in itself is a root of fear. We are…

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"Desecrated" Enfield's War Memorial Youths Fight

The Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 13

That the Soldiers War Memorial at Enfield was being desecrated by youths, who climbed all over it, while…

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How the Class War Should Be Waged

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 3

HOW are we going to carry on the class war? Whether we like it or not, in one way or another it has got to be carried on…

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Public War on Cancer "Inspiring Message of Hope"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 12

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.--Dr. Sampson Handley, senior surgeon of Middlesex Hospital, who has come to New Zealand representing the…

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World's Oldest Woman Recollections of the Mexican War of Independence

The World's News · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 18

IN a little town in the interior of Mexico, a woman, reputed to be the oldest in the world, has been discovered. She is Dona Hiedmenegilda Rojas, familiarly called…

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Police Soldiers Inspection

The Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 11

Policemen who are returned soldiers will be inspected at the Police Depot on Friday, at 2.30, by General Monash…

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Wife Wounded Husband Remanded

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 13

DAVID OWENS. 47. laborer, was remanded until March 1 from the Central Court, to-day, on a charge of having feloniously wounded his wife,…

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Unlucky Youth Twice Wounded Lithgow

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 15

Though the war has long been over, Jack Duff, a young Lithgow man, is in danger of qualifying for wound stripes, with which, for a period,…

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Wife Wounded Charge Against Husband Intent to Murder

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 17

David Owens, 47, a laborer was charged at the Central Police Court to- day, with feloniously wounding: Mary Owens, with intent to murder…

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War Service Homes Seeking Occupants Lithgow

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 15

The War Service Homes Commission,like the Commonwealth Government from whom it bought 100 Houses adjoining the Small Arms Factory, is…

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Peace or War? Bruce Is Enigmatical Carberra

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 1

IN the course of a statement on the coal situation, issued this morning, Mr. Bruce made this significant assertion:--…

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Anti-God Society the Soviet War on Religion

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 40

Acting on the initiative of the "Anti-God" Society, the Soviet authorities have sent instructions to local organisations to take steps to check the…

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Oil Supplies Great Britain's Position in the Next War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 17

Speaking in London a few days ago, Sir Norman Leslie, one of the organisers of the great convoy system in 1917, directed attention to the problem of oil for British…

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War Homes Sale 45 Go at Lithgow Lithgow

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 5

WHEN the Repatriation Department built 100 homes at Littleton the tiny settlement alongside the Small Arms factory, few expected it to prove a…

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