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Article : 286 wordsMr. Justice Hill, pronouncing a decree nisi in favour of Major Hill, with £3000 damages, described the Earl of Erroll (the co-respondent) as a very ...
Article : 196 wordsOwing to the mischarting of Foyn Island, navy officials express the opinion that Lieut. Riiser Larsen on Sunday missed General Nobile by at ...
Article : 99 words"We are short of petrol," called out Miss Earhart, when a motor boat rushed up after the monoplane, Friendship, in which Wilfred Stultz (pilot), ...
Article : 174 wordsThe operations of the relief parties are proceeding apace. The Italian seaplane has arrived at King's Bay. Major Gilbaud's seaplane, with Captain Roald ...
Article : 69 wordsOn the ground that it had carried non-union cooks during the strike, the Newcastle wharf labourers declared the Melbourne Steamship Co.'s steamer ...
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Article : 135 wordsExpressing the opinion that the disaster which befell General Nobile's expedition was due to the small dimensions of the airship, Italia, Dr. ...
Article : 107 wordsMrs. Guest, wife of Captain Guest, M.P., who financed the flight, motored to Burry Inlet from Southampton to congratulate Miss Earhart on being ...
Article : 58 wordsA fog and a high sea detained the monoplane Friendship at Burryport for some hours this morning. The 'plane left for Southampton at 11.20 ...
Article : 46 wordsA hitch occurred to-day in the reengaging of crews for the idle steamers in port, and for a time it was feared that the dispute between the Cooks' ...
Article : 263 wordsCommander Byrd, commenting on Miss Earhart's flight, said: "This flight was a necessary pioneering undertaking, because it was the next step in ...
Article : 63 wordsSir George Wilkins, speaking at a dinner tendered to him by the Royal Geographical Society, referred to the Italia expedition. He recalled that he, ...
Article : 167 wordsBefore the Anglo-German mixed arbitral tribunal, in the Australian case, A. Hartrodt versus Henry Olsen and Company, the German ...
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Article : 206 wordsEvidence that when they raided an hotel at Wollongong they found rum pumping into the street gutter, down which it flowed into the hotel cellar, ...
Article : 121 wordsLeaders of the women's movement, including Mrs. Baldwin, Lady Astor, Mrs. Despard, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, Misses Laura Knight and Flora ...
Article : 125 wordsPresident Coolidge, the Secretary of State (Mr. F. Kellogg), and other State officials have sent messages of congratulation to the aviators through ...
Article : 36 wordsThe keel of the 60,000 tons passenger liner ordered recently by the White Star Line, and which will cost nearly ...
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Article : 115 wordsWhen the legal formalities for the transfer to the Brisbane City Council of the land in Victoria Park, which was set aside for a University site, ...
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Article : 90 wordsThe scheme of electrification of suburban traffic on the Southern railways was carried a stage further to-day, when the change over from steam ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Royal Geographical Society to-day presented the Patron's Medal to Sir George Hubert Wilkins, in recognition of his Polar exploration flight. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe cargo steamer Ferndale, which sailed for London to-day, was the last vessel to leave Sydney flying the flag of the Australian Commonwealth Line. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe prospect of a weekly air mail service to Daly Waters is hailed with delight. At present it frequently takes three months for an Adelaide business ...
Article : 50 wordsMiss Amelia Earhart is a pretty girl, with bobbed hair, and a coloured bandeau, wearing breeches and a leather jacket. She is shy, and was most ...
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Article : 117 wordsThe 'plane in which Sir George Wilkins and Lieut. Eilson flew over the North Pole arrived here to-day by the Norwegian-American liner Bergens[?]ord. ...
Article : 93 wordsColonel Lindbergh, to-day was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Wisconsin. Colonel Lindbergh left the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 20 Jun 1928, Page 15
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