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  2. Advertising

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  4. BETTER BABIES

    It was slated on Tuesday by the N.S.W. Minister for Public Health that a feature of his programme is the creation of a publicity and information ...

    Article : 335 words
  5. EVENTS OF THE DAY

    "I'm caught and can't get out; put the fed light gn the driver, and come here us quick as you can, and help me out or I will be cut to pieces," said Guard ...

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  6. TROTTING IN N.S.W.

    Although there are many good trotting horses through New South Wales, races for these fine animals are singularly few With the exception of two or three ...

    Article : 419 words
  7. CURRENT SPORT

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 words
  8. THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY

    The greater part of the fighting in the Ypress region during the last few days bat been a soldiers' battle—fierce band-to-hand bayonet tussles over the edge of ...

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  9. MINING THE SEAS

    Owing to the indiscriminate manner io which the Germans have scattered mines during the past few days, the British Admiralty has closed the North Sea to all ...

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  10. THE TURKISH TANGLE

    The position of Turkey is not yet clearly defined, notwithstanding the attack made by her warships on Russian ports in the Black Sea. The utmost ...

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  11. WAR AS IT IS MADE

    All observers are agreed mat reforms effected in the organisation of the Russian army since the Japanese war have been of the most through and ...

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  12. RACING AT TAMWORTH.

    A race meeting held at Tamworth on Tuesday, under the auspices of the local jockey club for the purpose of raising money for the patriotic fund proved ...

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  13. MINES TREACHEROUSLY LAID.

    These mines cannot have been laid by any German ship of war; they have been laid by a merchant vessel, flying a neutral flag, which has come along the ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. DROWNED IN THE HUNTER.

    Two men, employed as carpenters in the construction of the Muswellbrook-Merriwa railway line, went bathing in the Hunter River, and one of them, Michael ...

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  15. TERRITORIALS' FINE FIGHT.

    The London Scottish, a territorial regiment, covered themselves with undying fame during one of the early days of the great fight near Ypress. ...

    Article : 125 words
  16. FORCES JOCKEY CLUB.

    The Forbes Jockey Club commenced a patriotic meeting on Tuesday in auspicious conditions. Starting at 2 to 1 Jack Rogers (6.7) captured the Belgian ...

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  17. MOTOR FATALITY AT LISMORE.

    Mr. W. H. Brandon, manager of the North Cost Co-operative Company, Ltd., was killed on Tuesday afternoon in a motor car accident near Eltham, Lismore ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. NAVAL ACTIVITY.

    Meanwhile the British navy has acted with promptitude and vigor in taking up the challenge thrown down by the Turkish ships. A squadron of the fleet ...

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  19. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

    Speaking at a political meeting in Wellington, New Zealand Sir Joseph Ward, leader of the Opposition, announced the principal lines of the policy to be put ...

    Article : 276 words
  20. A BLOOD TYPHOON.

    A Prussian dragoon, who was wounded at the battle of Mons, and was taken prisoner, gives a vivid description of a charge of fifty men of one of the British ...

    Article : 215 words
  21. AKABA CHELLED BY BRITISH.

    The light cruiser Minerva, a vessel about the size of the Sydney and Melbourne, which was on duty in the Gulf of Akaba, ran into the harbor of that ...

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  22. DEAFENED BY BURSTING SHELLS.

    "Two shells burn close to one of these, brave men, and though he was not touched by a bullet he will be deaf for the remainder of his life. One had his ...

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  23. THE WORK OF THE NAVY.

    A timely word of advice respecting the naval operations in given by Mr. John Leyland in an article in the London "Daily Telegraph." After pointing to ...

    Article : 224 words
  24. THE EPPING MEETING.

    The N.S.W. Trotting Club held a very successful meeting at the Epping-racescourse on Tuesday, at which the attendance was large. The programme opened ...

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  25. A SHUNTER INJURED.

    Frederick Townscnd, a railway shunter, employed at Eskbank (N.S.W.), met with a serious accident while shunting freight cars. It is surmised that he ...

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  26. KEMBLE GRANCE RACES.

    The Sydney sportsmen that were unable to get to Melbourne for the Cup meeting co[?] themselves on Tuesday at Kembla Granve, where an ...

    Article : 191 words
  27. THE LOYALTY OF INDIA.

    So far as India is concerned, all the indications are that the loyalty of the people is unaffected by the action of the Sultan's navy. Meetings are being held ...

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  28. BOY NEARLY DROWNED.

    A boy named Bede Manning had a narrow escape from drowning at Dubbo. He was bathing near Bunglegumbie Fal[?] in 15ft, of water, when his strength gave ...

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  29. DELCIANS IN THE TRENCHES.

    When Antwerp fell, the Belgians were given the task of holding the liens of the River Yser for forty-eight hours until reinforcement arrived. It was eight ...

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  30. THE GERMAN ARTILLERY.

    "The success of the Germans," says a French infantry officer, "is due to their undoubted superiority in heavy artillery, and to their skilful and daring ...

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  31. A WOMAN STABBED.

    A man named James Finn, who had enlisted in the expeditionary force in Sydney, was charged an the Central Police Court with having maliciously ...

    Article : 155 words
  32. ON THE SEA BOTTOM.

    Recently a flotilla of destroyers and [?]marines discovered a passage between the mine fields that the Germans had laid, and through which the German ...

    Article : 163 words
  33. PARKES TROTTING CLUB.

    That thriving western trotting organisation, the Parkes Club, held its spring meeting last week end, and the usual big attendance foregathered on the course to ...

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  34. DUNOOG PONY RACES.

    From its convenient location the Dungog racecourse has become the reading pony track in the north, and the meetings held there each month attract big ...

    Article : 149 words
  35. Baklarjevo Fight

    While the recent great battle was raging in Poland another desperate attack was made on the Russian position in the vicinity of Baklarjevo, on the border of ...

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  36. COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT.

    Immediately the Parliament of the Commonwealth meets, steps to secure temporary supply will be taken. Mr. Fisher hopes that he will have his ...

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  37. THE ATTACK ON BLACK BEA POUTS.

    It is stated that under cover of a fog the cruiser Goeben approached within a mile of Sevastopol before she opened fire with all her guns upon the city. The ...

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  38. QUEENSLAND'S ELECTORAL LAW.

    In the Queensland Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Appel. in moving that the house at its next sitting should consider the introduction of a bill to ...

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  39. A MORUYA FARMER'S LOSS.

    William Millikin, a farmer on the Deua River, Moruya, sustaiend a severe loss on Saturday through the destruction by fire of a burn containing 80 bushels of ...

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  40. THE HAVOC of A SHELL.

    Our howitzer shell burst in the midst of a Belgian battery, and all the six horses and one gun were blown into a mangled heap, resembling a gigantic butcher's ...

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  41. MAITLAND TROTTING RACES

    Although there are a large trotting horses in and around [?] it is seldom that a day's sport is arranged by the "heads" of the somnolent lucerne ...

    Article : 140 words
  42. CAUGHT IN A TRAWL NET.

    Fishermen are motorb[?] yarn spinners, but it may be doubted whether, in the wi[?] flights of his imagination, any follower of good old Izaak Walton ...

    Article : 172 words
  43. CYCLIST SHEPHERD.

    Arthur.H. Shepherd, the brilliant Australian pace follower, who was racing in Germany when the war broke out, has written from London an interesting ...

    Article : 318 words
  44. A CONSIDERATE COMMANDER.

    When the Breslau shelled Theodosia last Friday, her commander was chivalrous enough to give the inhabitants an hour's notice of his intention, and most ...

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  45. FAN TAN IN SYDNEY.

    A posse of Sydney police made a raid in a Chinese fan-tan den on Tuesday night and arrested fifteen Chinamen and one Englishman, who were, next ...

    Article : 74 words
  46. FIGHT IN A SNOW STORM.

    The final assault took place on Saturday after a snowstorm. The Germans sacrificed line after line before a murderous miles and machine-gun fire. At ...

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  47. A GIGANTIC FUNERAL PYRE.

    The Germans have radical methods of disposing of their dead. Near the site of one of the great battles they seized a large sawmill, which they transformed ...

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  48. TROTTING AT TEMORA

    At the patriotic meeting of the Temora Trotting Club, Judge Bells, a five-year-old horse, by Abbey Bells from May Beldon, won two events. The first race was ...

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  49. The Feudal Yoke

    Mr. Carmichael, N.S.W. Minister for Education, speaking recently at the opening of the Turramurra school, said that by had asked a German officer at ...

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  50. THE COW AND THE CAT.

    A peculiar accident happened recently to the eighteen-months-old child of Mr. Shoemark, a farmer of the Culcairn district, N.S.W. The father set about ...

    Article : 112 words
  51. A STING IN THE ANKLE.

    A French soldier, in a letter to his sweetheart, gives in the following few lines a description of his experience that is as poignant and telling as many ...

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  52. GERMAN SHIPPING HELD UP.

    Some idea of the havoc wrought upon German commerce by the activity of British warships may be gathered from the fact that the total value of German ...

    Article : 86 words
  53. THE FISHERMAN AND THE SHARK.

    A thrilling experience with a shark is reported as having befallen Mr. Fred Thompson—who has a permanent camp at Luny Rock, Middle Harbot, Sydney. ...

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  54. TRAPPED LIKE RABBITS.

    During the fighting near Kozenitze, a town in Russian Poland, where there are thick woods, the Germans filled the whole forest with troops, including ...

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  55. PORK FRITZ.

    When under examination before the Registrar in Bankruptcy in Sydney recently, William Finnic, whose estate was sequestrated on June 1 last, gave some ...

    Article : 265 words
  56. SKILFUL SURGERY.

    Many of the wounded men how convalsecent in Britain are living monuments of the surgeons' skill and of the resources of modern surgery. ...

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  57. FRENCH CRUISER IN PERIL.

    Particulars of the attack in the Adriatic upon the French armoured cruiser Waldeck Rousseau, while convoying troops from Antivari to Dahratia, show ...

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  58. THE TROUT SEASON.

    The trout season in N.S.W, opened on the first of the month. A large number of fishing parties visited the various streams in the Cooma district and fish ...

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