A drama of moving intensity was enacted at Bondi yesterday--a drama of life and death. At least 120,000 people shared in it--felt its gripping note. They marvelled at the intrepidity of this daring birdman, Q'viller; they despaired for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,930 wordsA dash into space--a landing far out to sea--rescue--then a cigarette and black coffee. "The most remarkable experience of my life," said Lieut. Q'viller later, in the comfortable security of a city ...
Article : 1,098 wordsTwo little surfers at Bondi peer into the sky to watch the sensational parachute leap. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsSudden and quickly transient fame came to one of the spectators at Bondi yesterday, to his great embarrassment and ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Minister for Health, Dr. Arthur, is remedying the congestion at the Lidcombe Old Men's Home by removing some of the inmates to empty buildings at the Randwick Hospital. It is not intended to increase the accommodation at Lidcombe, ...
Article : 418 wordsDaceyville police, are investigating a strange story of an alleged assault and robbery. Yesterday afternoon, it is said, a young man was invited by a ...
Article : 118 wordsAre we all more polite since the war? Have We more kindly thoughts about one another in 1928 than in 1913? ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 251 wordsIt was hot work for officials and competitors at a Clifton Gardens picnic yesterday, and sometimes the showers of the afternoon were not quite cooling enough. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsThe existing City Council coal contracts expire on Tuesday next. Whether the Civic Commissioners will be able to announce a decision on ...
Article : 148 wordsFrench tennis champions against our men--see Pages 11 and 19. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt the rate of £33 6s 8d a point, the N.S.W. Association insured against rain yesterday. A wet day is costly, when ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Captain Cook going to the rescue of Lieutenant Q'viller. The crowd on Ben Buckler anxiously watched the spot where the parachutist was last seen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsThough few people in Sydney support Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the London surgeon, in his decided statement that bobbed hair will ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 327 wordsA 14-years-old boy, Ted McKinnery, was struck dead by lightning on the Showground to-day. Many other people present were ...
Article : 95 wordsAn important provision of the new Hospital Bill, which the Minister for Health (Dr. Richard Arthur) will troduce in Parliament next session. ...
Article : 178 wordsA fleet and graceful victor at a picnic at Clifton Gardens yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsDusk over city and harbor falls light and cool after the hot day. Along the pavement there is a busy clatter of many feet. Restless ones that hurry, hurry ones that tramp, light dancing ones and weary dragging ones--the dainty shoes of the modern miss, ...
Article : 144 words"It's all in a day's work." That was all that the members of the North Bondi surf boat felt inclined to say about ...
Article : 362 wordsThe departure for Sydney last night of Messrs. Charlton, Lang, and Baddeley removed considerable importance from the A.L.P. Provincial ...
Article : 208 wordsRaiding a house in Surrey-street, Darlinghurst, late last night, detectives of the Drug Bureau, with Sergeant Armfield, of the women police, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 75 wordsNorm Gillespie (8.13½) outpointed Dick Congress (9.1) at the Stadium tonight. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsA big party of police from Newtown raided a two-up school in King-street, St. Peters, last night, and arrested 26 men, who, between them, possessed ...
Article : 72 wordsThe story of how the Captain Cook was sent to the rescue at such an opportune moment, was narrated by the ...
Article : 58 wordsDoctor Donald Kerr, a prominent Adelaide lawyer was found in the bathroom at his home, Ward-street. North Adelaide, unconscious, this ...
Article : 76 wordsLieut. Q'viller's spectacular displays, which have thrilled hundreds of thousands, have been preliminaries to the big Coo-ee City carnival which opens ...
Article : 52 wordsAdelaide, Saturday.--At the Speedway to-night, Paddy Dean of Sydney, in the semi-final of the "Silver Sash," established a world's mile dirt track ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Sun 29 Jan 1928, Page 2
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