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  2. REFORM THE HOUSE

    "Questioners like you," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, "would make a man hang himself." In the days when the great writer made ...

    Article : 1,035 words
  3. RAGING MELEE

    A race meeting at Richmond, in the Hawkesbury River District, yesterday was eventful. Howard Lass won the First Division Flying Handicap, but a protest ...

    Article : 298 words
  4. CHASING THE CLOUDS

    There are many sports with a thrill in them—from steeplechase riding to wading through swamps all day without seeing a duck—but for sheer exhilaration there is ...

    Article : 1,175 words
  5. "ECONOMIC PRESSURE"

    "Economic pressure has forced me to do this act," was the plea put forward by Reginald McKenna when asked to answer a charge in the Adelaide Police Court ...

    Article : 218 words
  6. HOW MUCH LONGER?

    Carl Schzfer, a young German with a foreign accent, appeared at the Adelaide Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. W. Halcombe, S.M., on a charge of having ...

    Article : 301 words
  7. DEGRADING PARLIAMENT

    In recent years Parliament has provided some degrading farces, but nothing so shameful as that witnessed at the sitting of the Assembly on Thursday. Those ...

    Article : 1,607 words
  8. PEEPS AT PEOPLE

    Mr. Alfred Searcy (Clerk of the House of Assembly and of the South Australian Parliaments) lived for many years in the Northern Territory, where he contracted ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 825 words
  9. STEAMER LOOTED

    There was a remarkable scene on the Darling Wharf this morning when a gang of twenty men robbed the steamer Mallina, defying the efforts of the watchmen ...

    Article : 165 words
  10. JOURNALISTS' REUNION

    Journalists have few opportunities to foregather in numbers, but when they do, as on Friday night at the annual meeting and social reunion of the South ...

    Article : 604 words
  11. NO-CONFIDENCE FARCE

    The inspired newspaper attempt this week to stir up political strife has had a very feeble result. Indeed, the indications now are that it will prove a "dud." ...

    Article : 308 words
  12. NEWS OF THE DAY

    The present spell of fine weather does not promise to continue. To-day's official forecast states:—"Fine, with northerly winds, but becoming cloudy and unsettled ...

    Article : 52 words
  13. ALLEGED GIPPSLAND INHERITANCE.

    Press reports this week announced that Miss Maud Armstrong, a hotel maid, of Jamestown, has inherited a Gippsland station and stock, a mansion at Toorak ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 52 words
  15. DROWNED IN BEER.

    Our London correspondent cables that ex-Sgt. Arthur Tillet, M.M., committed suicide in a 9,000-gallon vat of sour beer at the Bethnal Green Brewery. Deceased ...

    Article : 37 words
  16. THE QUAKERS' CRUSTY PORT.

    During the proceedings in the World's Quaker Conference, which is being held at Devonshire House, it was revealed that a bottle of port wine bad been "interned" ...

    Article : 70 words
  17. THE MAIL ADELAIDE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1920.

    The dreary no-confidence debate in the House of Assembly assumed an interesting aspect this week when the report of a further disagreement ...

    Article : 460 words
  18. MAD COW.

    On Friday a mad cow rushed down the streets of Brentwood, England (cables our London representative), and attacked a child that was being wheeled in a ...

    Article : 52 words
  19. RANDOM RHYMES

    Commenting on the matter on Thursday, the Rev. A. E. Gifford said dancing was not wicked in itself. It depended on the dancers and on the dances. Instead ...

    Article : 432 words
  20. STATE BANK OPERATIONS.

    Since its inception in 1896 the State Bank on its own account and as administrator under the Advances for Homes Acts has dealt with 33,015 applications for ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

    A well-attended meeting of the Advisory council of Science and Industry was held on Friday, when the Premier (Hon. H. N. Barwell) took the chair. The ...

    Article : 311 words
  22. ALLEGED MURDER

    With reference to the case of the State boy Ernest Weekes, whose dead body was found in the scrub near Picton with the skull smashed, a youth named Arthur ...

    Article : 82 words
  23. CASTAWAYS OFF SYDNEY

    On Wednesday morning Mr. J. Bridgewater, of Sydney, accompanied by a man named Seidell, of Port Kembla, left Sydney in a big motor launch equipped with ...

    Article : 257 words
  24. MUSICAL NOTES

    It is quite refreshing to have something new on concert programmes, and Miss Day promises such an item at her recital next Friday. It is a song cycle entitled ...

    Article : 264 words
  25. CZAR'S DIAMONDS IN NEW YORK.

    Our Washington correspondent cabled to-day that 131 diamonds, supposed to be part of the famous looted jewels of the Czar's family, addressed to Comrade ...

    Article : 73 words
  26. MARINE ENGINEERING FEAT.

    One of the greatest marine engineering feats yet carried out in South Australia was performed recently by Messrs. Simes and Martin, engineers, of Todd Street ...

    Article : 179 words
  27. CHEER-UP.

    Under the above title the official narrative of the Cheer-Up Society, 1914-1920, has just been written by Mr. F. J. Mills (a vice-president of the society). The book ...

    Article : 264 words
  28. WOOL RESTRICTIONS REMOVED.

    Mr. Massy Greene announced to-day that it had been decided to remove the restrictions on the exportation of sheepskins, wool tops, wool waste, manufactured ...

    Article : 32 words
  29. DELIVERING THE PRINCE'S MAIL.

    Lieut.-Col. Williams (Director of the Air Force) arrived in Adelaide to-day in a 400-h.p. Le Rhone-engined 'plane. He flew from Melbourne in five hours. ...

    Article : 128 words
  30. BARRETT & BARRETT

    "The Bungalow Builders," 22 Waymouth Street, can build you a bonny home at a reasonable price. 'Phone 135. ...

    Article : 24 words
  31. WILLS AND ESTATES.

    Application has been made by the Perpetual Trustees Association for letters of administration of the estate of William Brandt, late of Wangaratta, saddler, who ...

    Article : 69 words
  32. Advertising

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    Advertising : 771 words
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