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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

3,770 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 189

Mud Flats Made Pretty Picture War on "Go-getters"

Evening News · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 8

ALD. FEATHER told Dundas Council last night that sketches had been distributed in the country advertising a Carlingford estate,…

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Rice Growers Wage War on Weeds Early Start Necessary for Success

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 19

Settlers in the rice-growing district of the Murrumbidgee irrigation area were greatly troubled in the early part of the season by the excessive winds,…

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Chicago's War Long Fight Against Underworld "Conquered Province" Law-abiding Citizens Cowed

The Sun · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

Chicago is determined to get rid of its gangsters and racketeers and is fighting the evil with characteristic energy. The underworld has been a viciously dominating factor in that city so long that it has been able to gain control of the police power,…

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Ladies Night Soldier's League

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

The Parramatta branch of the Returned Soldiers' League arranged a musical and dance programme on Saturday evening at the Lancer Barracks, and invited the ladies…

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Bombed Four Soldiers Killed Accident or Error ? LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 1

"The Times" correspondent at Lahore, reports that while British aircraft were carrying out bombing practice near Jamrud, a fortress at…

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Social Gossip Hard at Work Again For Limbless Soldiers' Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 24

THE honorary social organiser of the Limbless Soldiers' Appeal, Miss F. Aikman, is looking forward to a very busy year, with plenty of hard work, so…

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N.s.w Fields Youngest Xi. in History Seven Colts Appear To-day's Match Weak Victorian Team's Task Game Which Began War

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 3

WHAT, FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC'S VIEWPOINT, would have been a very ordinary Sheffield Shield came, lo-day's match between New South Wales and Victoria has been invested with more than the usual interest. The little "war" between the…

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Britain's Struggle for Mastery in Air My Book of the Week Story of War in Air Told in Pilot's Letters — How Supremacy Fluctuated — Britain's Vital Need

Evening News · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 16

THE author of this posthumous work was born in 1892, and was a member of the family of Stuart Wortley, whose…

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Huge Cost of War Pensions London

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

About 1,800,000 persons (including dependents) are in receipt of war pensions, says a report issued to-day. The pensions expenditure for the past 10…

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"War to Death" Soviet v. TROTSKYISTS 150 Arrests London

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 12

War to the death against Trotsky adherent it proclaimed in newspapers throughout Russia Soviet authorities have ordered…

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Overseas Items Anti-semitism in Russia War Against Anti-Semi[?]es Urged

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

Recently a Jewish student named Maisel committed suicide, declaring in a note which he had left behind that he had been driven to his act by the…

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The Soviet. War on Trotsky. "Must be Sent to Turkey." LONDON, Jan, 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 13

Coinciding with 150 arrests at Moscow and other places in Russia, the Communist party at Moscow has issued a statement declaring relentless war against the Trotsky forces,…

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Cost of the Great War What U.s.a. Lost and Gained Banker's Reply to Coolidge

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 7

Mr. R. H. Brand, a director of Lloyds Bank and partner in the firm of Lazard Bros. in a letter to the "Times," replying to President…

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Wool Growers Pay All the Time Inequitable Charges Leading Pastoralist Advocates Revival of the War Time Appraisement Scheme

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

Mr. James Clarke, who is one of the best known and most successful wool-growers in Queensland, on being asked for his views on the…

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Red Gold Plot to Wreck Labor? Charges by A.W.U. Fierce War on the Communists Tweed Heads

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 12

The A.W.U., at its convention in Coolangatta, has declared merciless war on Communists. Charges are being made that there is an organised conspiracy on a huge scale among Sydney…

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Can Billy McALISTER Extend Fidel La Barba? Fistic Treat for Stadium Fans Most Interesting Fight Since the War

Arrow · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 14

Former world's flyweight champion, and uncrowned bantam title-holder, Fidel La Baraba, makes his debut at the Sydney Stadium to-morrow night. He meets the Australian bantam champion, Billy McAlister, in what is really the most interesting scrap since the war…

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Victims of Drought Soldier Settlers that have had Lean Years and are Overburdened with Debt. a Plea for Government Consideration

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 16

With a wheat crop in Now South Wales exceeding fifty million bushels of the very high f.s.q. of 63-lb. there is good cause for rejoicing by the…

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Penshurst Soldiers' League

The Propeller · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

The Memorial Hall, Penshurst, was crowded at the monthly meeting of the Penshurst sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on the 17th instant…

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Jumble Sale for Blinded Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 18

MRS. ARTHUR RUTTER is arranging a jumble sale in aid of the Blinded Soldiers' Cafe fund, to be held at Paddy's Market on Wednesday…

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Borrowed Poison. Returned Soldier's Death. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 14

William Charter, 50, n farmer, of Rob Roy, yesterday went to a neighbour's and asked for some strychnine to poison cats. Later Charter was found under a tree by Fred…

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