Dr. Bowie, the hero of Ambrym, who was the last to leave the hospital before it was blown into the air by the great eruption, and who risked his life for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 518 wordsThe Ulster Women's Council, representing 130,000, held a meeting at Belfast yesterday. The report showed that women had undergone training in nursing ...
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Article : 146 wordsWashington political circles are agog at the reported refusal of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Champ Clark) to attend a Democratic Party ...
Article : 123 wordsThe annual meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters will be held on January 29. The district executive, in their report, refer to the new agreement submitted to ...
Article : 210 wordsThe search for the missing submarine A7 continues. The searchers are now sweeping farther seaward, and the water is too deep for divers. ...
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Article : 412 wordsThe first submarine for the Australian Navy has left Barrow for Portsmouth. Lieut. Besat is in command. The second vessel of the type will be ready in a few ...
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Advertising : 107 wordsThe Anglican Central Board of Missions collected £1,041,000 in support of various activities during the year 1913. It is estimated that £1,231,000 will be required for ...
Article : 33 wordsNews has been received that the new steamer Mottisfont, which left Middlesbro on January 13 with a cargo of rails for Melbourne, has arrived at Las Palmas ...
Article : 48 wordsThe trial has just been concluded of Carl Richter, an employe in the Tokio office of Siemens & Schunkert, electrical engineers, who was charged with having stolen ...
Article : 121 wordsA report furnished to the Premier (Mr. Holman) shows that during the last three years the number of oversea immigrants was 135,586. Of these 74 are being treated ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Joint Advisory Committee in the United Kingdom under the National Insurance Act has approved of the regulations to reduce the scale of benefits to ...
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Article : 150 wordsA native soldier shot dead Col. Walker in revenge for punishment for a breach of discipline. A non-commissioned officer who attempted to rescue Col. Walker was ...
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Article : 59 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier moved for the discharge of 26 Bills from the business paper, and remarked that the Government thought it ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Government has instructed the French representative in Mexico to protest against the suspension of the payment of interest on the national debt, which has ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Thu 22 Jan 1914, Page 8
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