The second railway crossing smash this week occurred today, when Mr. Alfred Bedford, aged about 18 years, the eldest son of Mr. Frank Bedford, of Goolwa, was killed as a result of a collision between his motor cycle and a train proceeding from Victor Harbor to Adelaide. ...
Article : 580 wordsThe Commonwealth line is determined not to re-engage the 60 stewards who wre dismissed from the Moreton Bay. The line claims that these men disobeyed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 185 wordsA policeman and a laborer straggling in Grenfell street tonight about 7.15 precipitated a disturbance. Hundreds of people surrounded the struggling men, and policemen who rushed to the scene had to draw their batons to disperse the crowd. ...
Article : 347 wordsThe unknown man, aged about 35 years, who died at Adelaide Hospital on Friday as a result of a fractured skull sustained in a collision with a tramcar in Currie ...
Article : 58 wordsMedals are often awarded for less noble deeds than those of the martyrs of science, who give their lives in the fight against disease. ...
Article : 1,279 wordsToday a fire broke out near the Warren Reservoir, on the property of Mr. Gilbert, about six miles from Lyndoch. The fire, aided by a strong wind, raced ...
Article : 58 wordsDressed as a boy, Kathleen Clark, aged 12, of South Melbourne, was whipping behind a cable tram in Banks street, South Melbourne tonight when she was ...
Article : 52 wordsGuests at the Adelaide Town Hall to-night danced in a cabaret setting at the ball which was given, by Mr. and Mrs. J Lavington Bonython (Lord Mayor and ...
Article : 622 wordsThere was an attendance estimated at 15,000 at the Speedway Royal, Wayville, tonight, when at attractive programme of motor cycle races was carried out. ...
Article : 471 wordsMr. A. A. Drummond (secretary of the South Australian branch of the Australian Railways Union) said today that at a meeting of the council of ...
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Family Notices : 314 wordsThe dinghy races that were to have been held at Grange and Henley today were postponed owing to the cold, boisterous weather conditions. The officials ...
Article : 463 wordsFound bleeding from the nose and mouth in a taxicab in King William street about 6.10 tonight by Constable H. Cowling, Mr. Harry Lord, 30 years of age ...
Article : 59 wordsWoodford Smith, aged 14, of Kelvin road, Alphington, struck the bottom of the Yarra while diving is the river this afternoon. He is now in a critical ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. F. J. Brown (Mayor of Port Adelaide) will attend the carnival of the Largs Amateur Swimming Club on Monday. Entries for all events will be accepted up to ...
Article : 41 wordsWith one or two isolated exceptions, notably, a surplus of 710 points at Mount Barker, mainly due to record August rains, the total rainfall throughout South Australia and the Northern Territory for 1927 was below the average, and along the River Murray it was the driest year on record. ...
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Family Notices : 322 wordsBetween 70 and 80 persons were present at Druids' Hall tonight, when visiting officers and members of the Irish National Foresters' Benefit Society of Victoria were ...
Article : 334 words"Recent research still further increases our estimate of the multiplicity of worlds" (writes Prof. J. Arthur Thomson in "John o' London's Weekly," London). ...
Article : 200 wordsA confession of how, as a boy, he was cured of a tendency to snobbery by reading Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" was made by Rev. T. Rook, of Derby, at a meeting ...
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Advertising : 97 wordsAn improvement was reported tonight in the condition of Mr. F. Bourne, of Parkside South, who was injured in the level crossing smash near Blyth on ...
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The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954), Sat 31 Dec 1927, Page 4
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