Articles from page 2: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. Speed King Smashes New World's Record, Giving His Life As Forfeit

    LONDON, Saturday.--Though it cost England's speed king his life, Major Sir Henry Segrave set up a new world's speed record just a few seconds before he met a frightful death. The boat, Miss England II., ...

    Article : 815 words
  3. Segrave And His Car

    SIR HENRY SEGRAVE as London knew him, the well-dressed, coolly poised men who never "walked" abroad because he preferred fo go in his own luxury car. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  4. FLOW OF NEW WEALTH IS FORESEEN

    SOUTHPORT, Saturday. -- The opening of the Coomera bridge will help provide a steadily growing stream of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 264 words
  5. SILENCING THE CROAKERS

    "I am an optimist ..... I believe that one laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 224 words
  6. HALF-CASTE HELD FOR WILFUL MURDER

    MELBOURNE, Saturday.--After five hours interrogation at police headquarters this morning, Arthur Skeritt, 48, a half-caste, was charged with the wilful murder of J. A. Taylor, elderly and wealthy Fitzroy grocer, who was battered to death last week. ...

    Article : 176 words
  7. CALLED HER "MOTHER"

    For twenty years a lone white woman on the islands of the Torres Strait, a superintendent-teacher to thousands of aborigines, and known to hundreds of ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. STRIKE LOOMS ON THE CANEFIELDS

    TULLY, Saturday.--Unionists from all part, will journey to Tolly to-morrow to be at the meeting to consider the basis of ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. A.W.U. Chiefs In Conclave

    The Executive of the Australian Workers' Union sits in session in Brisbane to-day, and again to-morrow, to discuss the situation that has arisen in ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. CANBERRA DIDN'T SEE AMY YESTERDAY

    SYDNEY, Saturday.--"Goodbye, lovely Sydney. I hope to come back again". THIS was Amy Johnson's farewell ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. Quakes Again?

    AUCKLAND, N.Z., Saturday.--Queer earth rumblings in the vicinity of the Arapuni Dam are causing ...

    Article : 43 words
  12. DRINK AT DANCES SHOCKS WOMEN OF N.Z.

    "--Drinking at dances and the conduct of cabarets in New Zealand has been the bone of contention recently, and the matter was further ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. MAN'S THRILLING FIGHT WITH BURGLAR

    MELBOURNE, Saturday -- Awakened at 3 a.m. to-day James Kellock, 35, wood merchant, of West Brunswick, saw ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. Is This The Coolest Thief In History?

    SYDNEY, Saturday.--Though police bored holes in the ceiling above the bar and waited for hours, to defect the author of a series of thefts from an Auburn hotel, that did not solve one of the most baffling mysteries encountered. ...

    Article : 282 words
  15. Due To Travel

    THE SOUTH AFRICAN war memorial, recently scene of a communist meeting rumpus, which is going to be transferred from Edward-street to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  16. AXLE BROKEN

    ARMIDALE, Saturday.--Leaving Armidale at 3.18 this morning tho Brisbane mail reached a point three miles north of Dumaresq railway ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. Not Gloomy

    MR. STUART F. DOYLE, inaugurator of the "Optimists' League," whose voice will be heard throughout the Commonwealth to-night by an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  18. TERRIBLE HEAD INJURIES

    Frank Fletcher White, 40, a member of one of New England's oldest pastoral families, was found dead today in the garage at his fine residence, ...

    Article : 92 words
  19. MACHINE WILL REPLACE SHOP SALESMEN

    MELBOURNE. Saturday.--To the dreaded spectre of unemployment among shop salesman in Melbourne hae been added another terror--a robot ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. OIL AT SPRINGSURE

    MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Blakeley, stated to-day that he proposed sending the acting ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 12 words
  22. FLAX LATEST ON LIST OF GOV. BOUNTIES

    MELBOURNE. Saturday.--Grow flax and come in on the £20,000 Federal Government bounty. ON arrival from Canberra to-day the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 118 words
  23. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 123 words
  24. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 19 words
  25. JOCKEY SMASHED ON FENCE

    PERTH, Saturday. -- When Puriel threw Jockey Clean at the first steeple at Belmont to-day, the unfortunate man hit the inside ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. "SNOW" UNDER THE TABLECLOTH

    SYDNEY, Saturday.--The antics of several women in a house in Goodchap-street, Surry Hills tonight led police to search the ...

    Article : 87 words
  27. GAGGED, TIED IN CHAIR

    SYDNEY, Saturday,--No arrest has yet been made in the case in which a Liverpool woman states she was assaulted, gagged, and tied in a chair ...

    Article : 62 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$