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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Her Secret Woman As a War Hero Amazing Pose London

The Sun · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 1

The arrest of "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Bligh Barker," a restaurant reception clerk at the Regent Palace Hotel, by a Bankruptcy Court tipstaff, says the "Evening News," led to the discovery that the prisoner was a woman, who successfully posed…

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The Primest in Prunes Soldiers Deliver the Goods Young Sets a Lead

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 19

"A' beautiful sample of prunes" was the verdict of the expert after having conned the fruit over and allowed the flavor to linger on his…

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Timber War. Boy Labor in Industry Blow at Vital Principles What Judge Lukin Would Have Two Thousand Men May Be Replaced

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 5

LITTLE is said of the possibility that two thousand timberworkers wil be replaced by boys should the Lukin award be enforced. The "hours" grab, the drastic wage-cut, and all those other injustices,have perhaps diverted our mind form the sociological aspects…

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World OF Women Warm Welcome Home Lady de Chair in All Grey at Reception

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 21

LADY DE CHAIR was yesterday welcomed home by the Victoria League, of which she is president. For the reception she chose an all…

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Woman Shot in Cemetery Wounded in Hip

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 6

A bullet ricocheting from a tombstone struck Mrs. Robert Randell, of Liverpool, in the hip as she stood over a grave in Liverpool Cemetery…

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Another Disastrous World War -- Field Marshal's Fears All Nations Preparing More Soldiers in Europe Than in 1914 League As Panacea London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

A grave warning of the increasing competition in armaments, and the danger of another great war, was uttered by Field Marshal…

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Spectre of War Field-marshal's Warning World Still Armed London

The Sun · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

A grave warning against the increasing competition in armaments and the danger of another great war was…

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The Cases for War and Labor Two Hughes Effusions (To the Editor)

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 3

Sir,--I congratulate your paper on its splendid article entitled "A Journalistic Indecency." relative to W. M. Hughes and the "Sun." The "Sun" is actively…

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Scenes in Mexico, Where the Insurrectionary Troops and Federal Forces Are at War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 14

A street in Monterey, capital of the State of Ne[?]o Leon, Where a battle lasting ten hours, is reported to have been fought. A CANAL IN MONTEREY…

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Diggers' Bed At Parramatta District Hospital Returned Soldiers' Proposal

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

It is the Intention of the Diggers of this district to endow a bed in Parramatta District Hospital. So much was decided at a meeting of…

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Catholic Returned Soldiers and Sailors. Special Meeting

The Catholic Press · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 11

A special meeting of the Catholic returned soldiers and sailors will be hold at the Christian Brothers' School Hall, St. Mary's Cathedral at 3 p.m., on Sunday…

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A Soldier's Prayer

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 42

An Irishman who had been a soldier for five years in India admitted that during all that time he had hardly ever heard Mass and never went to the…

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Mexican Soldiery —Girl Mechanics

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 20

PREPARING FOR NEW EMPIRE SHOW-Mr. "Billy" Fox. chief mechanician of the Empire Theatre, directing alterations at the Empire stage for the production pf "Clowns in Clover," which will open on March 23. MEXICAN SOLDIERY ON THE MARCH.—Smartness ii not an obvious attribute of the Mexican soldiery on the march, judging from this picture of at squad taken outside Mexico City…

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Soldiers' Pensions. Proposed Appeal Board. Mr. Hughes Critical. "The Repatriation System. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 12

"For any soldiers' pension appeal board claim to be successful, it is essential that the onus of proof shall be shifted from the shoulders of stricken soldiers and placed on…

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Timber War. Lathering Timbermen with Overproof Spleen Drastic Attempt to Smash All Established Principles Workers of All States Aroused Some Mills Will Resume To-day Men Organised to the Limit

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 5

WHY did the limberworkers choose to be locked out in preference to bowing their heads to the mandate of a pensioned-off member of the Queensland Judiciary, and slip back twenty years in the march of progress?…

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Unite for Struggle Against Capitalism and War Danger

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 3

The following appeal was sent on December 7 to the working women of the world by the delegates to the tenth anniversary of the First Congress of Working Women of the Soviet Union:—…

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"Dug In" War Office and Admiralty Bitter Attacks London, Thursday Night

The Sun · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 21

Lieut.-Col. Moore-Brabazon, formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Transport, bitterly attacked the Cabinet in the House of…

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"Don't Blame the War" "Repat's" Old Story Sick Digger Can't Get Treatment

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 5

THE case of S. W. [?] a returned soldier, is an extraordinary one according to his own story. Green, though practically an…

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Directing Aerial War From Underground New British Marvel Mechanical "Brani" Will Confound Raiders Wonderful Map London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 4

A secret mechanical "brain," containing apparatus of extraordinary ingenuity, will act as a central controlling point for…

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Outing for Soldiers

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 15

At an [?] club will huld an [?] solders It is propose to [?]…

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