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Article : 121 wordsNONE of us can account for Australia's deplorable innings to-day, on an easy pitch, in front of the largest crowd I have ever known on a cricket ground. ...
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Article : 55 wordsNorman Wilson (7), of Stone's Corner, South Brisbane, was treated by the Wynnum ambulance for the effects of immersion yesterday afternoon. The lad was one of three small ...
Article : 48 wordsTwo Australian gliding records were broken, to-day during flights by members of the Brisbane Gliding Club from elevated country at Coorabell. E. ...
Article : 152 wordsAlthough the wicket in a measure was responsible for Australia's collapse, far more important factors were the excellent field placing and smart work ...
Article : 194 wordsFurther isolated storms have been reported inland. Hall the size of a cricket ball fell at Peterborough, Shattering a 20.000-galion cement tank ...
Article : 70 wordsGeorge Arthur Sydney Spickett (21), single, a labourer on his parents' farm, about two miles on the Brisbane side of Eumundi, was admitted to hospital ...
Article : 155 wordsAmbrose Palmer, retired heavy and cruiser weight champion of Australia, announced to-night that he had definitely retired from boxing, and ...
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Article : 78 wordsAlthough thousands of Melbourne residents left their homes for a New Year week-end holiday in the hills and at the seaside. Melbourne was by ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. "Westy" Egmont, former special assistant United States Attorney, is held on 60,000 dollars (£10,000) bail, charged with forging the name of Mr. ...
Article : 57 wordsAssisted from the air by R. A. A. F. 'plane, land parties have been scouring Blackwood Forest. In the Dividing Range, near Macedon. for Norman ...
Article : 98 wordsToronto and Boolaroo police began a search late to-night for two 14-year-old boys, named Gallagher and Harris, who were last seen in a rowing: ...
Article : 77 wordsWith the expiry of the naval treaties Japan formally invoked the escalator clause, enabling it to retain 15,000 tons of over-age submarines. ...
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Article : 244 wordsIt will take about 20 years to classify the specimens from Dutch New Guinea with which Miss L. E. Cheeseman, the entomologist, returned ...
Article : 84 wordsParimutuel wagering on horse racing in 1936 totalled 257,000,000 dollars (£51.400,000), compared with 219,000.000 dollars in 1935. Sixteen States where the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe British Bloodstock Agency has bought for an unnamed Australian purchaser, Silverstead. which was second in the Coronation Cup in 1928. ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. J. G. Chidgey, general manager of the Fresh Food and Ice Co. Ltd., collapsed and died to-night while walking up the gangway to the ...
Article : 46 words[?] announced mat 34.708 persons, the largest number in history, were killed in automobile accidents in the United States in 1936. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 2 Jan 1937, Page 13
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