"Herald" Prizes For Best Stories Of War
First prize in "The Sydney Morning Herald's" Best Story of the War Competition has been awarded to Mr. John…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
4,665 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 234
Sydney War Bride Scores In U.S.
Fortune was well on the side of Sydney war bride, Mrs. Elaine Colby, of Maine, when she visited New York over Christmas and the New Year with her American husband. IN two radio quizzes at Radio City, Mrs. Colby won a pressure cooker…
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Fortune was well on the side of Sydney war bride, Mrs. Elaine Colby, of Maine, when she visited New York over Christmas and the New Year with her American husband. IN two radio quizzes at Radio City, Mrs. Colby won a pressure cooker,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Evicts Ex-Soldier, Wife
CANBERRA, Friday.--The Department of the Interior today evicted Gordon Butt, 30, and his wife from a Government-owned cottage in Campbell…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rainbow Jeeps Are The New Craze The jeep, ubiquitous but drab in time of war, is just as ubiquitous in time of peace, but civilian owners are giving them a new magnificence
A DWINDLING contingent of Army vehicles still tootles along Italian highways in the liverish coat which, while it may add appreciably to the difficulties of enemy gunners, contributes nothing to the cause of aesthetics. An Army officer who owns his own jeep has done it up in lacquer white with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Story Of The Dinosaurs They Ruled This Earth for [?] [?] YEARS Man is a comparative newcomer to this world of ours. For approximately only 500,000 years has his superior brain allowed him to rule the world to suit himself, pushing the other animals around as if they had no right to exist. Before man crowned himself, however, the world was ruled for 140,000,000 years by a four-legged animal—the dinosaur. Paleontologists are now asking themselves who will be the next rulers of the world when man is deposed or wipes himself out with an atomic war
IT was during the Mesozoic period of earth history, 200,000,000 years ago, that the dinosaurs first arose. The world was a strange place then…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Veterans At Pantomime
WAR VETERANS had a day out yesterday, when they attended the "Babes in the Wood" panto, at the Tivoli. Here Miss Elsa Stenning and Miss Heather Gale admire the medals worn by veteran Mr. Harry Figger…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Air Chief on rocket war
MELBOURNE, Sat.--If Australia was to survive an atomic war, the war would have to be fought at outposts in New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War veteran, 92, still going strong
NINETY-TWO-YEARS-OLD war veteran, Mr. Harry Figg, yesterday contemptuously dismissed soldiers of the Sudan and Zulu wars as "mere boys". Mr. Figg can go one better…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legion gets SOS for aid War's Broken Men
THE full resources of the Legion of ex-Servicemen will be thrown into the fight for compensation…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War Bride's Pathetic Story Hardships, Disappointment For Sydney Girl
A PATHETIC story of war's aftermath is contained in a letter written to Truth by a young Australian wife in England. Swept off her feet in a whirl-…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →The Problem of War Neurosis The clinic that Jack is building
SYDNEY is to have a "worry clinic." By the first week in-February it will be untangling the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Wounded in Shotgun Explosion
PARKES. Sunday.—Eric Miller, 23, of Hill Street, Parkes, was wounded in the left arm on Saturday night when a shotgun exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hectic War Career
MR. AND MRS. Laurence Short, of Plymouth, smilingly face the future as they leave the church after their marriage in…
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MR. AND MRS. Laurence Short, of Plymouth, smilingly face the future as they leave the church after their marriage in…
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MR. AND MRS. Laurence Short, of Plymouth, smilingly face the future as they leave the church after their marriage in…
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MR. AND MRS. Laurence Short, of Plymouth, smilingly face the future as they leave the church after their marriage in…
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MR. AND MRS. Laurence Short, of Plymouth, smilingly face the future as they leave the church after their marriage in…
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MR. AND MRS. Laurence Short, of Plymouth, smilingly face the future as they leave the church after their marriage in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Women's News Memorial at Hospital to War Nurse
A memorial portrait in oils of the late Sister Joyce Bridge will be donated to St. Luke's Hospital, with money raised by the Joyce Bridge…
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