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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 102 words
  3. SHIPPING

    Messr. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. have received a wireless message from the captain of the s.s. VICTORIA to the effect that that vessel ...

    Article : 80 words
  4. WHEN OUR GUNS "GO SICK."

    "War-weariness is not confined to soldiers. The hard steel tubes of our artillery wear down with continuous firing, the rifling disappears, and with ...

    Article : 695 words
  5. MOTOR NOTES

    A very fast flight was recently mads in America, on a De Haviland bombing aeroplane on a trial fun from Dayton to Washington, carrying pilot and ...

    Article : 568 words
  6. ANOTHER OPEN LETTER.

    Dear Sirs,—The fact that I do not wish to see any of you suffer impels me to further address you. On Wednesday your leaders issued a manifesto ...

    Article : 1,345 words
  7. THE WEATHER

    The weather was hot yesterday and again to-day, the temperature reaching 94 before noon to-day, while the minimum during last night was 67 ...

    Article : 28 words
  8. THE FORECAST.

    Following is the forecast:—"The hot, sultry conditions over the W. and S.W. coastal areas and the Gascoyne extending to the agricultural districts ...

    Article : 57 words
  9. STOLEN MOTOR CARS

    The police have not yet been able to trace the Studebaker car, painted Prussian blue, stolen last week at Kalgoorlie, and reported as having ...

    Article : 92 words
  10. COMING HOME

    The following personnel of the A.I.F. (invalids and Anzacs on furlough), have been listed for return to Australia, and are actually en route from ...

    Article : 148 words
  11. MASCOTS FOR AIRMEN.

    The practice of carrying mascots began in the old days, when men flew on stick-and-string kites, and the men who fly the perfected machines to-day ...

    Article : 362 words
  12. The Daily News. PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918.

    The cablegrams lately have contained a good deal of news regarding Russia, but the real position there is still obscure. The once great nation ...

    Article : 571 words
  13. REPATRIATION TROUBLES.

    The disclosures made by Major Cunningham, the Deputy-Controller for Victoria, as to the reasons for his resignation, lift the curtain drawn by ...

    Article : 701 words
  14. WELCOMED IN SYDNEY.

    Many thousand Sydneyites and visitors from the country welcomed returning Anzacs at the railway station this morning. ...

    Article : 24 words
  15. "SEEN TO COLLIDE."

    With his right hand the adjutant drove a weary pen. With his left he occasionally flicked away the top sheet from a pile of scribbled reports. He ...

    Article : 547 words
  16. WHAT THE SOLDIERS SAVE.

    On the battle front the palmy days of plenty are gone. What was once thrown broadside round the country in wasteful ...

    Article : 264 words
  17. HORSE-HAIR FACTS

    The old "horse-man" had just finished grooming the two big, sleek cart-horses, and was carefully pulling every, hair out of the currycomb and brush ...

    Article : 482 words
  18. A CHANCE FOR THE TRENCH PADRE.

    "It's a trench Padre' for me in the future. He's the only 'parson' I shall have the patience to listen to" said a corporal of my regiment the other ...

    Article : 378 words
  19. EASTERN GOLDFIELDS

    The half-yearly report of the Eastern Goldfields Trades and Labor Council states inter alia:—"Industrial matters affecting the ...

    Article : 260 words
  20. NAVAL HOSPITALS ON WHEELS.

    Whenever a sea battle takes place the naval ambulance train is ready. The Zeebrugge affair is an example. The ambulance train was at Dover in ...

    Article : 207 words
  21. AN UNFORTUNATE START.

    A commercial traveller on his first trip called upon a chemist. He was nervous as he put his hand into his pocket and drew out a card. ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. HAIG'S RARE DISTINCTION.

    The Medaille Militaire, which has recently been conferred upon Sir Douglas Haig, gives the Field-Marshal a very rare distinction—one that he ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. MANNHEIM—THE RIVER PORT.

    The persistence of our airmen in attacking Mannheim (says a writer in the "Daily Chronicle"), indicates the utility of that port in military ...

    Article : 105 words
  24. HOSPITAL LINEN FROM OLD PLANS.

    Some time ago (says a writer in the "Globe") an excellent, scheme was started for converting the linen stripped from the back of old blans and ...

    Article : 118 words
  25. TIMES HAVE BEEN WORSE.

    Luxury taxation is by no means a new idea. In Rome, more than 2,000 years ago, the Oppian law enacted that no woman should possess more ...

    Article : 226 words
  26. INSECTS AND THE BALLOONS.

    The "Scientific American" quotes Lieut. Depret-Bixio, of the French Army, as saying that many insects follow captive balloons in their ascent. ...

    Article : 157 words
  27. GERMAN METHODS AT ST. QUENTIN.

    A lady who was in St. Quentin during the German occupation (says a writer in the "Daily News") tells some stories of the invaders' methods which ...

    Article : 146 words
  28. SELFISH HUSBANDS.

    An interesting problem in domestic ethics is raised in the annual report or the Willesden Medical Officer, who says that investigations have revealed that ...

    Article : 139 words
  29. WHY THOSE RAILINGS?

    London has suddenly wakened up to the great railing question which was settled in Edinburgh many months ago. No one (remarks a London ...

    Article : 132 words
  30. SETTLING THE SUBMARINE.

    When the armistice was signed and the possibility of any further fighting became remote, it was expected that the veil of secrecy regarding the work ...

    Article : 310 words
  31. WASTE IN SMALL THINGS.

    Tn "Wealth from Waste" Professor Henry Spooner declares that waste goes on in nearly every direction. Apart from big items, look at ...

    Article : 119 words
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