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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 166

A War Relic. Bullet in Pine Log

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 14

While a pine log, imported from Belgium, was being, cut up at the South Sydney Box Factory at Waterloo, on Monday ah army bullet was found to be…

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Beach Fence Council to Build Balmoral War

The Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 11

There was another warm discussion at the Mosman Council meeting last night regarding the proposal to erect a fence on the beach…

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Meets Need N.Z.'s War Carillon London

The Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 2

The Wellington, N.Z., War Memorial Carillon continues the centre of interest in Hyde Park. It will remain there until June 1, when it will be…

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Torn, Kicked, Daubed Poster Offensive in Victoria's Liquor War

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Both sides in the campaign prior to the liquor poll, to be held on March 29 complain of their signs being torn…

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Club Greets Members Conditions in England During the War and Now

Evening News · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 11

IN extending a welcome home at the Women's Club musicale yesterday afternoon to Mrs. Patricia Page, the president, Mrs. George…

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When the Sydney Fought the Zeppelin a Little Known War Incident

The World's News · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 9

H M.A.S. Sydney is rapidly disintegrating under the hands of the shipbreakers at Cockatoo Island, but the memory of her fight…

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Talkie War Musicians Mute Union Steps in Can't Play for Films Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 13

An extraordinary position has been created in the musicians fight against "canned" music. Musicians who have lost their employment in the theatres…

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Funniest War Story Ever! First British All-talkie, "Splinters," is Coming to the Lyceum

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 7

British talkies will be here soon stronger than ever. After "Disraeli's" fun at the Lyceum is over, "Splinters," the…

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War on Communists. Police Action in America. Black List Being Compiled. New York, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 15

Twelve directors of industrial corporations have stated that they will discharge all of 300 persons whose names had been submitted to them by Police Commissioner Whalen as…

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Bullet in Heart Soldier Who Lived for Six Months

The World's News · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 31

A SOULIER who lived for more than six months after a.22 bullet had lodged in the tissues of his heart is referred to in the War Office report on the Health of the…

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Soldier's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 19

Simon Solomons, also known as Joseph White, 40, was found dead in his room at 28 Francis-street, city, yesterday afternoon. Solomons, who was a returned soldier, had…

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Soldiers' Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 12

Soldiers' Day in Sydney on Friday will again bring home to everybody the unpleasant fact that there are still some hundreds of Diggers in our midst who are hovering between…

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MRS. E. Claughton's Will. Trusts for Benefit of ex-Soldiers. Court Asked for Advice

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 12

An application was made by Mr, David Wilson (instructed by Messrs. Pigott, Stinson, Macgregor, and Palmer), to the Chief Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice Harvey) yesterday on…

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Costers and Governors Soldiers' Day Appeal

The Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 11

Jingling coins, rattling collectionboxes, pretty tin-hat sellers, whirring fortune-wheels, chocolates and saucepans, kisses and speedway monkeys,…

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Soldiers' Day on

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 12 March 1930 · page 2

Everybody seems to be interested in the Soldiers' Day campaign. The latest is a set of welfare workers for children, who boast the quaint title…

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Welcome Home Frank McMillan Honored "He Played the Game"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1930 · page 3

The welcome home tendered to Mr. Frank McMillan, a member of the Kangaroo football team which recently toured England, at Granville Town Hall on…

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Hotel Closing Anzac Day Provision

The Sun · Thursday 13 March 1930 · page 12

An assurance that there will be a provision in the new Liquor Amending Bill for the compulsory closing of hotel bars on the forenoon of Anzac…

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Balmoral Beach War Goes on

The Sun · Thursday 13 March 1930 · page 12

The Mossman war still goes on. With a view to possible legal action to prevent the council's enclosure of Balmoral Bench, the circumstances of…

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War Ace Killed Canadian Tragedy Ottawa

Evening News · Thursday 13 March 1930 · page 10

COLONEL W. G. BARKER, ranked as second among Canada's wat aces, and credited with having brought down 52 enemy machines, was killed to-day…

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Wheat War ? U.S. Canada Plan Washington

The Sun · Thursday 13 March 1930 · page 1

Senator Brookhart, Republican member for Iowa, today called upon the United States Farm Board to cooperate with the Canadian Wheat…

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