It was boldly decided a little while age to held regular informative meetings under the auspices of the Corio United Liberal Parties, and to arrange ...
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Article : 360 wordsMrs. C. Myers has two raffles in connection with the Miscellaneous stall. First raffle: Silver afternoon tea service, donated by G. Bradley and Sons, and ...
Article : 1,240 wordsMr. Keith Murdoch cables from British headquarters:—Sunday. — Australian troops are now thoroughly established on their new line, which is ...
Article : 1,206 wordsMr. Alex. King, a former member of the Corio Bay Rowing Club, has been elected captain of the Ballarat Rowing Club. ...
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Article : 552 wordsThe pupils of the G.C. of E. Girls' Grammar School have made a splendid assortment of comforts for soldiers, which include the following articles— ...
Article : 102 wordsMunicipal contributions to the infections diseases ward at the Geelong Hospital are again to be discussed. Some time ago the Board of Health ...
Article : 162 wordsThe hearing of evidence was continned by the Licensing Board—Messrs. Barr, Cumming and Lock—at the Supreme Court House yesterday for the ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Russian newspapers denounce the Kaiser's reply to the Pope, and describes it as a consequence of the Russian revolution, for Germany is now ...
Article : 105 wordsAn Italian official message says:—"The enemy exploded a powerful, mine undor our positions at Mount Nero, on the Carso front, and subsequently ...
Article : 74 wordsThe schooner Lemacl sailed into the cuter channel at 6 a.m. yesterday, but owing to adverse winds had to weigh anchor. During the afternoon the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe United Service says:—"German correspondents agree that the Flanders battle hay been more terrible than anything that has preceded it. Professor ...
Article : 61 wordsA Roumanian communique issued on Sunday says:— "Two gas attacks, accompanied by violent artillery fire, were made on the heights north of Somke, ...
Article : 61 wordsBy the Spring Fete, held on Tuesday, at the Newtown Presbyterian Sunday school bulidings, £55 was raised. ...
Article : 20 words"The enemy attacked in the direction of Beaumont, nine miles north of Verdun, but despite the extensive use of flame-throwers he was repulsed with ...
Article : 473 wordsThe Minister of Public Instruction, in compliance with representations made to him by parents and teachers, has decided to grant a special holiday ...
Article : 63 wordsDefinite information has been received in administrative circles in Washington that China is to send 200,000 welltrained troops to France. One million ...
Article : 41 wordsTenders are being called for the formation of a new roadway at the Gordon College; the track on the south side of the building, leading from ...
Article : 103 wordsReuters correspondent at Stockholm says that M. Branting (the leader of the Socialists) has won a further six seats, of which three are from the Extreme ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Howard Hitchcock's proposal (backed up by the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is president) to change the name of the North Shore ...
Article : 112 wordsIn connection with the air raid on Kent and Sussex coast on the evening of September 25th the sound of approaching gunfire warned the residents ...
Article : 133 wordsThe secretary acknowledges donations of reading matter from Mrs. Pale and fruit from Miss Ycoverton. The donation of 60 dozen eggs ...
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Advertising : 205 wordsMr. Lowson, Missioner at the Sailors' Rest, has received a letter from an officer on board the sailing ship Elginshire, which left Geelong in June last ...
Article : 127 wordsThe annual meeting of the Y. W.C.A. was held on Wednesday. The president, Mrs. A. Holden, was in the chair. The following nominations were made ...
Article : 136 wordsReuter's agent at Washington cables: —While the nature of the State Department's next exposure of German intrigues in America has not yet been ...
Article : 98 wordsDebt cases again comprised the whole of the business at the police court yesterday morning. Judgment by default was given in seven instances by ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Mayor of the City (Aid. Geo. F. Taylor) intends to convene a public meeting to be held in the City Hall on Monday afternoon, the 8th October, ...
Article : 112 wordsThrough the Official Press Bureau, Mr. Winston Churchill, Minister for Munitions, announces the abolition of leaving certificates as from October 15. ...
Article : 261 wordsIt is officially announced, that the twentieth meeting of the Irish Convention was held at Cork It was resolved to refer the various schemes ...
Article : 138 wordsCountry News, War Funds, Eentertainments, Sporting, Commercial, Melbourne Crime, State Parliament, etc. ...
Article : 20 wordsYesterday's war prayer meeting at the Congregational Church was well attended. Speaking from the passage, "Our inward man is renewed day by ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Howard Hitchcock desires to aeknowledge with thanks the following further subscriptions to the Geelong City Band fund:—Messrs. J. C. Taylor ...
Article : 281 wordsThe weather in Flanders has suddenly turned fine, presaging the possibility of further fighting. The wind, however, is unfavorable to the British. The ...
Article : 34 wordsSince the issue of the War Precautions Proclamation several hotel licensees have refrained from displaying a light on a prominent part of their ...
Article : 124 wordsReplacing destroyed portions of the skull with layers of cartilages from the ribs of a patient is the latest triumph of war surgery. Cutting down, the ribs ...
Article : 75 wordsBuenos Ayres, Tuesday. — After a long and animated discussion on the international question, the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Republic ...
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Advertising : 113 wordsReferring to the recent mob riots in Melbourne, a retired police officer says that much of the trouble can be traced to the cheese-paring policy of the ...
Article : 123 wordsSuch of the cable news on this page so headed has appeared in the London "Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It should be ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Thu 27 Sep 1917, Page 3
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