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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

13,407 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

War's Effect On Hats

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

The war is diverting fashions into queer lanes. Overseas millinery specialists have turned to war for…

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Who's Who Among War Workers ?

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 17

MRS. J. MATHER, the president of the Woollahra-Darling Point branch of the Red Cross Society, has g had wide experience as a war worker…

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Ergot Valuable in War Time

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 4

ERGOT, a disease often troublesome in pastures, has a value during wartime. In fact, during the just war there was a very serious shortage of ergot for…

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First War Wedding At Hills

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 9

First war wedding with Hills District participants happened on December 23. when Lieutenant E. A. Wood. 2nd. 1st. Artillery…

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Diggers Want Local War Fund

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

If a Mayor's War Fund is opened in the Granville Municipality Granville R.S.L. sub-branch will donate twenty five guineas, provided that benefits are…

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Jewish War Memorial (Maccabean Institute)

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 3

The Annual General Meeting of the N.S.W. Jewish War Memorial is due to be held soon. It is hoped that when nominations for office are called for an…

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Clive Brook Takes A War Risk

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 14

History, remarks Joan Littlefield in London, is made so quickly these days that it is a tricky game to produce a fiction…

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'Must Advertise' Great War Taught Lesson

Liverpool News · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

A very interesting lesson for Australian business men is contained in an article in the anniversary number of the American journal, "Printer's Ink,"…

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Cassidy Dodges Bullets In "Range War"

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 14

Hopalong Cassidy, whose action-packed career threatens to go on for ever, makes his way through another rain of bullets in "Range…

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The Sino-Japanese War and the Missions

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 32

Thousands lost their lives when Kiating, Szechwan Province, was bombed by Japanese planes. This formerly attractive and peaceful little place, the…

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Was V.a.d. in Great War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

Well known Parramatta socialite Mrs. H. T. Sutcliffe who during the last was lived in England, was among the first to answer the…

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How War Has Affected P'matta-granville Tennis

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 4

The effect war has had on tennis in this district is revealed in the annual report & the Parramatta-Granville Tennis Association. In the summer competition, it is stated, club secretaries had great difficulty in filling their teams . "Officials will be…

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War-time Dangers. Bishop Marshall's Warning. Manchester, December 15

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 16

Warnings against war-time (lungers were given by Bishop Marshall to a large gathering of mothers from all parts of the Salford Diocese who came to St. John's…

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New Social Order. Effect of the War. Bishop's Warning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 8

"If this war continues for any length of time, a new social order will no doubt be brought into being," said Bishop Burgmann, of Goulburn, in an address at Christ Church,…

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The War Finns Rout Reds Bitter Battles in Frozen North

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

THE chief war news of the week comes from Finland, where the Russians appear to have been subjected to a succession of crushing- defeats. Some of the reports reaching Britain from correspondents with the Finnish troops tell ghastly stories of…

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City and Camp Huts for Fores: Provision for War Needs

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 15

Donations to the Catholic United Services Auxiliary are now approximately £750. Much more is needed if we are to build and equip welfare-huts in the settled…

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Bruce on War Aims London, Wed. Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 3

"Greater international cooperation than has ever been achieved before will be necessary to establish the liberty…

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Red Cross War Appeal. Comforts in Troopships. 59,000 ARTICLES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 8

The New South Wales division of the Australian Red Cross Society proposes to provide 59,000 articles valued at £1,727, for the use of members of…

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Assassin War Dail's Fear Of I.R.A. DUBLIN

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 1

"The ultimate end of I.R.A. activities must be assassination. God knows how many of us may be…

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The War Against God. British Paper's View of European Situation

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 15

There are people in this country who say that it is wrong to believe that God is on our side, says the "Sunday Graphic" in an editorial article. In…

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