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  2. Youth On Murder Charge

    A REMARKABLE statement, in which George Thornton, 18, groom at Angullong, allegedly confessed to having shot a girl dead because, she made him "a little annoyed," was submitted to the. Coroner (Mr. R. G. Melville) today. ...

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  3. DEPARTMENT PROBLEM

    THE GIRL IN THIS PICTURE, taken yesterday to the Botanic Gardens, was not frightened of a police injunction forbidding women (but not men), to lie on the grass. The department's campaign seemed to have been suspended yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. BETTER FLATS URGED

    A RECOMMENDATION that four standards of flats, graded as classes A, B, C, and D, should be permitted, was ...

    Article : 318 words
  5. Hottest Day In City Since Last March

    BY 1.45 p.m. yesterday winds from the north and northwest had raised Sydney's temperature to 88 degrees. ...

    Article : 169 words
  6. SELASSIE SAID TO BE LOW IN FINANCES

    NEW YORK, September 16.--Halle Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia, is practically without means, according to Dr. Malaku E. Bayen, cousin and ...

    Article : 113 words
  7. Prisoner Escapes In Stockinged Feet

    A YOUNG remand prisoner escaped from the exercise yard of the Lismore lock-up today by scaling a 12ft. wall and forcing apart overhead bars with stockinged feet as he swung with his hands. ...

    Article : 358 words
  8. CLOCKS PUZZLED PRELATE

    ATRIP of 3500 miles in ten days by motor car and train taught the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Mowll) much about the ...

    Article : 142 words
  9. INSURANCE NEED AS LIFE SPEEDS

    Accidents have increased as life has speeded up, because there are more ways of getting hurt or killed today than 40 years ago. ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. WON £1500 AT ROULETTE

    PARIS, September 18.--An English visitor playing with a remarkably successful system has just won more than £1500 at the roulette tables at the Le ...

    Article : 81 words
  11. SMOKE STACK 409 FEET HIGH

    NEW YORK, September 16.--A smoke stack 409ft. high, believed by its builders to be the tallest stack east of the Missisippi River, was completed at Marion ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. SEES CITY FOR FIRST TIME AT AGE OF 40

    Born on Norfolk Island 40 years ago, Mrs. Ethel Clapp had never seen a city until she arrived at Sydney yesterday on the Morinda, for a holiday. ...

    Article : 64 words
  13. INVENTORS SEEK SAFER WORLD

    MIAMI, September 16.--Making work easier arid the world a safer place to live in is the chief objective of a National Inventors' Club which has been ...

    Article : 165 words
  14. MORINDA IN GALE

    The Burns, Philp steamer Morinda. which met with a 40-mile gale between Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, arrived Sydney early yesterday, nearly a day ...

    Article : 27 words
  15. SPEEDY WORK BY POLICE

    PORTLAND (Oregon), September 16.--Police and deputy sheriffs of Multnomah and Washington Counties in Oregon recently turned in one of the ...

    Article : 73 words
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  17. TERRIER CLIMBS 10,000 FT. PEAK

    NEW YORK, September 16.--Cappy Ricks, wire-haired terrier, owned by Chalmer Sinkey, of Seattle, is credited with being the first dog ever to climb to ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. PREFER SILVER TO PAPER MONEY

    PORTLAND (Oregon), September 16.--Because "loggers and lumbermen like to have something heavy to carry around," more than two thousand silver ...

    Article : 73 words
  19. BETTER FERRY SERVICE TO MANLY

    Port Jackson and Manly S.S. Co., Ltd., is considering the speeding-up of the ferry service during the peak hours of the morning and afternoon. ...

    Article : 78 words
  20. STONE THROUGH BANK WINDOW

    A stone was thrown through a plate-glass window at the Cremorne Junction branch of the Bank of New South Wales last night. ...

    Article : 45 words
  21. KURNELL CHURCH: COOK TRADITIONS

    A new £2000 Roman Catholic Church being erected at Kurnell has been designed to resemble an English church of Captain Cook's time. ...

    Article : 83 words
  22. U.S. CONSUL OPENS ART SHOW

    The versatility of Mr. Frank A. Nankiveill, Australian artist, was praised yesterday by the Consul-General for America (Mr. Doyle), when he opened an ...

    Article : 102 words
  23. AIR WEATHER PROPHETS

    NEW YORK, September 16.--The idiosyncrasies of weather present no problems to Transcontinental and Western Airlines' own weather b[?] ...

    Article : 43 words
  24. ODDFELLOWS IN SESSION

    The bi-annual session of the Independent Order of Oddfellows was opened yesterday in the order's new building. The Grand Master (Bro. J. J. Dunbar) ...

    Article : 33 words
  25. COUPLE WATCH HOUSE BURNED

    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ellis stood helpless yesterday, while the weatherboard cottage they occupied in Betts Road, Merrylands, was burnt to the ground. ...

    Article : 108 words
  26. SMALL BOY AND HIS DOG PAY AN OFFICAL CALL

    INTO the office of the Clerk Petty Sessions at Redfern yesterday Struggled a small boy carrying a dog nearly as big as himself. He planked down on the counter 6d and three coppers--all his ...

    Article : 125 words
  27. NEWS TRAVELS SLOWLY!

    ON AUGUST 13, 1936, Sir Archdale Parkhill announced that henceforth the Mascot Aerodrome would be known as the Kingsford Smith Aerodrome, as a tribute to Australia's greatest airman. Judging by this notice, which has just been erected, the news has not yet reached the Civil Aviation Board. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  28. TINGIRA GOING TO SHIPBREAKERS

    The old clipper ship Tingira, which has been moored in Berry's Bay for years, will be sold at auction on October 6 for breaking up. ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. ASSISTED NAVY LEAGUE

    Referring to a statement made after the fire at Cockatoo Dock at the weekend, when Navy League cadets rescued the lighter Allen Taylor, which was ...

    Article : 52 words
  30. COUNCIL BUYS ITS OWN CURRENT

    Sydney County Council estimates its electric light bill for the year 1937 at £17,000. An amount of £16,423 has just been ...

    Article : 70 words
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