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  2. NEARLY A SMASH.

    A serious railway accident was narrowly averted at the Wallaroo Railway Station yard on Thursday night. The passenger train from Broken Hill had passed the ...

    Article : 356 words
  3. CORONATION DAY.

    To-day is the third anniversary of the coronation of King George and Queen Mary in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony took place on a Thursday amid ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. THE SIZE OF SHIPS.

    Although the ill-fated Empress of Ireland was not of the same mammoth proportions as the Titanic, her dimensions were sufficiently great to ...

    Article : 441 words
  5. HERO WORSHIP.

    Fairminded followers of football although they may have a decided liking for their own particular team, are always ready to pay homage to heroes in the ...

    Article : 595 words
  6. WHERE THE SHAG NESTS.

    Our Kingscote correspondent wrote on June 17:—The Kingscote Spit just now is a very interesting eight to those who are fond of Nature study, as the cormorant, ...

    Article : 169 words
  7. PREVENTING PICTURE FORGERIES.

    The Bertillon system may be used in at to prevent the frauds which are growing so frequent in the sale of mascerpieces. Professor Bordas, on seeing a landscape by ...

    Article : 186 words
  8. TREE-PLANTING.

    It is not often that, one has the opportunity of learning firsthand the success or otherwise that lias attended tree Planting different parts of South Australia. ...

    Article : 128 words
  9. WEATHER FORECAST.

    South Australia (issued 9. p.m., Sunday).—Except a few coastal showers generally, fine. Winds veering to coolsoutherlies ...

    Article : 26 words
  10. MAIL NOTICES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 690 words
  11. EARLY RISING.

    The time of the year is round again when it is necessary for many a station manager to leave the blankets by candle light and to creep out of doors in the early dawn ...

    Article : 544 words
  12. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 352 words
  13. WORLD'S LARGEST WIRELESS STATION.

    In company with Sir Henry Norman, M.P., Mr. Hobhouse, the British Postmaster General recently paid a visit to the Telefunken Company's high power station ...

    Article : 214 words
  14. CASUALTIES.

    On Saturday, just after nightfall a collision occurred at Dutton terrace, Medindie, between a motor car and a milk-cart. The former vehicle was owned and ...

    Article : 153 words
  15. RELATIVE COST OF LIVING.

    Healthy boys are accustomed to resort frequently to the welghing machine and the measuring tape to learn the extent and rate of their bodily ...

    Article : 664 words
  16. AMERICAN TRADE COMMISSIONERS.

    Mr. Henry Stead, of Melbourne, has forwarded the following telegram received from the American Trade Commissioners (Mr. John Kirby, jun., Capt. D. M. Parry. ...

    Article : 195 words
  17. THE SKY AND THE WEATHER.

    Lecturing at the Camera Club, London, on "The weather and the camera," Dr. O'Brien Ellison said that colour in the sky had no weather significance. A red sunset ...

    Article : 156 words
  18. A CHILDS DEATH.

    SALISBURY, June 20.—A report was received yesterday at the police station from Dr. W. A. Hunter giving information of the sudden death of Louise Mary Parson, age ...

    Article : 285 words
  19. NEW OF THE DAY.

    To-day the sun reaches the winter solstice, which is its greatest distance from the earth's equator. It will therefor be what is known as the shortest day of the ...

    Article : 49 words
  20. The Register ADELAIDE: MONDAY, June 22 1914.

    With an exchequer almost empty and a pronounced Socialist Government in office the French Republic is n an unenviable position, but a cable ...

    Article : 865 words
  21. "SCREWED" IN TIGHT SHOES.

    An amusing pretext of having peen in toxicated was delivered by a defendant at the Adelaide Police Court on Saturday. [?] how he [?] to the charge he ...

    Article : 130 words
  22. THE PREMIER ON TOUR.

    To-day the Premer (Hon. A. H. Peake) will begin a busy and important political tour of the south=east where he will expound both State and Federal liberalism ...

    Article : 269 words
  23. GLENELG RAILWAYS.

    The alternations which came into operation on June 1 in connection with railway communication between Glenelge and the city do not meet with the unqualified approval of those having to ravel under the ...

    Article : 159 words
  24. CAPT COOK'S VOYAGE.

    Documents of the highest interest to students of the early history of Australasia will be sold by Messrs. Sotheby on July 10 next (says The London Times of May 16) ...

    Article : 526 words
  25. THROWN FROM HIS HORSE.

    WENTWORTH, June 20.—Mr. Tom Richards, of Warraweena on the Anabranch was brought into Wentworth Hospital yesterday in consequence of an ...

    Article : 201 words
  26. CONSIDERATION RE MOTOR BUSES.

    Who are the members of the Motor Bus Services (Adelaide)? Why only ratepayers of Adelaide and districts. What did they want motor buses for? To obtain a ...

    Article : 274 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,008 words
  28. AN EXPERT OPINION.

    Moving about as much as I do among stations and station managers (writes "Coonatto" in Bush and Station Topics in this week's Observer), it is only ...

    Article : 742 words
  29. SHOWERS ON THE COAST.

    Fine but more or less cloudy weather, with northerly winds and cold nights, prevailed in South Australia during the past two days. At Adelaide the temperature ...

    Article : 177 words
  30. CARBIDE ACCIDENT.

    MOUNT GAMBIER, June 19.—Louis Tolner, the youth who sustained the serious accident on Wednesday night through an expl[?] of carbine gas is improving and ...

    Article : 33 words
  31. A SMALL FIRE.

    PORT AUGUST June 19.—The fire brigade received a call this morning at 11 o'clock from Young & Gordon's store. It was prmoptly responded to the brigade ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. A SUDDEN DEATH.

    BROKEN HILL, June 21.—The Coroner (Mr. C. F. Bulter, S.M.) held a magisterial enquiry yesterday into the sudden death of Edith Pearce Johns four and ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. THE ENGLISH MAIL.

    At 9.30 on Saturday morning the R.M.S. Medina, of the P. & O. line, reached the Outer Harbour from London. European mails were promptly landed, and over 300 ...

    Article : 49 words
  34. WATCH HOUSE KEEPER'S SUICIDE.

    MELBOURNE, June 21.—An inquest was held on Saturday concerning the death of Constable J. Gillanders, the watchouse keeper at St. Kilda lockup who shot him ...

    Article : 135 words
  35. LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

    Three keenly contested matches of football were played in connection with the league in Adelaide on Saturday. At the City Oval Sturt and North Adelaide ...

    Article : 300 words
  36. UTAH'S HUGE GRANITE BLOCK.

    What is claimed to be the largest piece of flawless granite ever ,quarried has been "unearthed"' in Utah. It is 98 ft. lone, 40 ft. wide, and 54 ft. high, and was ...

    Article : 131 words
  37. THEATRE SUPERSTITIONS.

    Paris, a city of theatres, is full of theatrical superstitions. Nearly every one associated with the theatre has some sort of mascot. Thus M. Ferdinand Samuel. ...

    Article : 165 words
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