Sultry and oppressive weather was broken yesterday afternoon in the city and inner suburbs when a storm swept over Melbourne and caused extensive damage. Water, in some places 20 feet deep, flooded the low-lying parts of ...
Article : 4,027 wordsThere was absolute silence in the densely packed court when the president (Dr. Buenger) pronounced the verdict in the trial of the five men who were ...
Article : 616 wordsFour men were fatally injured in accidents on Saturday and Sunday. When he was struck by a motor-car at the corner of Lennox street and Rowena ...
Article : 209 wordsDespite unfavourable conditions of reception, which at one stage threatened altogether to mar reception, the second Christmas programme broadcast to the ...
Article : 1,386 wordsAn appalling disaster, one of the worst in the history of railways, occurred on Saturday evening. An express, travelling at high speed, crashed into a stationary train at Lagny, 10 miles from Paris, in a fog. Both trains were crowded with holiday-makers. The latest estimate of ...
Article : 654 wordsAll through the night crowds besieged the Gare de L'Est, from which the trains departed, seekings news of relatives. They thronged around passengers who arrived ...
Article : 492 wordsALBURY (N.S.W.).—Mrs. Minnie Blanche Fisher, aged 53 years, of Wilson avenue, Belmore, Sydney, was killed on Saturday in a motor-car accident near ...
Article : 111 wordsSwerving suddenly to avoid another car, a sedan car driven by Mr. A. H. Shingler, of Penders street, Thornbury, crashed into a safety-zone pylon in ...
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Article : 119 wordsThe Nazi newspaper "Korrespondenz" declares that the acquittal of Torgler and the Bulgarians is a plain miscarriage of justice, showing the necessity for a basic ...
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Article : 163 wordsThe Codex Sinalticus, one of the oldest Bible manuscripts in the world, which has boen bougnt at £100,000 for the British Museum, is being brought from ...
Article : 268 wordsFollowing his release from the military gaol a' Arbour Hill by order of the High Court, after he had been arrested on a charge of having illegally worn the ...
Article : 192 wordsOne of the most shocking murders in recent years oceurred here to-day as a result of a dispute in the local Armenian Church. Archbishop Tourian, head of ...
Article : 194 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.). Monday.—At Napier yesterday Hugh C. Curlett was killed when a Moth aeroplace which he was flying fell fiom 100ft. The plane ...
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Article : 98 wordsA procession of several hundred persons attempted to approach the Germany embassy. The police intercepted them, and they dispersed quietly. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Telegraaf" says that Van der Lubbe will petition President von Hindenburg for clemency as no appeal is possible from the Supreme Court. President ...
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Article : 110 wordsWhen the King broadcasts to the Empire on Christmas Day he will sit at a desk at Sandringham on which will be two microphones encased in Australian ...
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Article : 89 wordsWith a slight gesture of disttste the Pope condemned the sterilisation of human beings in a Christmas address to the cardinals. He said:—Although it ...
Article : 100 wordsBy 196 votes to 46 the Senate passed the Finance Bill, under which the Budget will be balanced. The Chamber finally approved the measure by 286 votes to 199. ...
Article : 47 wordsA pawnbroker. Thomas Sutton, whose business was in Victoria street. London, and who has died at the age of 85 years left £800,000. He began in a small way in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 26 Dec 1933, Page 7
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