Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given £250,000, producing income at the rate of £12,500 a year, for the foundation of a "hero fund" in the United Kingdom for the reward of ...
Article : 184 wordsA serious increase is reported in the number of deaths from cholera at St. Petersburg. The spread of the disease is largely due to the gravediggers' strike, the ...
Article : 104 wordsSerious friction has arisen between Turkey and Bulgaria. In consequence of a slight offered by the Porte to M. Gueshoff, the Bulgarian Agent at ...
Article : 150 wordsSummonses were obtained at the City Court to-day by the Federal Crown Solicitor for service on Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co. and on their manager for having ...
Article : 1,052 wordsThe competition for the football premiership of the 1908 season has now reached the final stage. Last year Norwood met and defeated Port Adelaide, the minor premiers, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 853 wordsThe election for the vacancy in the representation of Newcastle-on-Tyne, caused by the death of Mr. T. Cairns, the Liberal member, resulted yesterday in the return ...
Article : 291 wordsIn reply to Mr. Bryan's challenge for an investigation concerning Governor Haskell's alleged relations as treasurer of the United States Democratic ...
Article : 328 wordsThere appears to be every probability that the rainfall for the first nine months of 1908 will nearly equal the average for a full year, as shown by the records of over ...
Article : 3,253 wordsThe Acting Speaker in the House of Representatives yesterday read a cable message from Lord Northcote, thanking both Houses warmly for their addresses, which ...
Article : 1,140 wordsOn the subject of the new Australian naval defence scheme, the "Daily Chronicle" says the Admiralty very properly stipulates that in wartime its control ...
Article : 79 wordsA typhoon, which wrought great loss of life and property, swept over the Philippine Islands yesterday. The effect of the storm was most severe in the islands of ...
Article : 53 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 438 wordsApplication forms for old age pensions were issued yesterday at all the post-offices in the United Kingdom. Pensions are payable under the Act recently passed at ...
Article : 147 wordsA collision occurred during a fog between two electric trains in Philadelphia, in the American State of Pennsylvania, yesterday. Seven persons were killed and 72 others ...
Article : 37 wordsDr. Riley, Anglican Bishop of Peith (who attended the Pan Anglican Congress and the Lambeth Conference), sails for Fremantle on October 8. ...
Article : 32 wordsAll the Great Northern International Paper Mills in Canada have been closed owing to a strike of employes. The publication of the American newspapers is ...
Article : 45 wordsAt this morning's sitting of the Baptist Congress Mr. Wetmore C. Stephens, president of the Victorian Union, moved, and the Rev. F. E. Harry seconded, the ...
Article : 259 wordsA sensation was created at Newmarket yesterday by the discovery that 50 small indication posts had been removed from the sides of the tan exercise course near Mr. S. ...
Article : 58 wordsFrance has been singularly unfortunate during late years with her navy. Since 1900, 288 officers and men have been killed in naval disasters, including the late explosion ...
Article : 347 wordsSpeaking at Chesterfield yesterday Lord Selby, late Speaker of the House of Commons, admitted that the unemployed in England numbered now nearly 9 per cent. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn reply to Mr. Hughes (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) said he would ask the Attorney-General to look again into ...
Article : 77 wordsDr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, delivered a private lecture at Simla, the Indian seat of Government, yesterday before the Earl of Minto (Viceroy), Lord ...
Article : 80 wordsSir—My sincerest thanks to you and your generous readers on behalf of the many little children from the London slums who will benefit by their kind help of the Fresh ...
Article : 223 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 361 wordsA contest for 25-horsepower 4-in. cylinder motor cars was held yesterday in the Isle of Man, over a course of 338 miles, to determine the highest speed on an unlimited ...
Article : 149 wordsBreadstuffs.—A general hardening of the wheat markets has been caused by higher American quotations and the cholera scare causing Russian shipments to be ...
Article : 260 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 299 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 246 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 362 wordsThe ladies' golf championship of Tasmania to-day was won by Miss Arthur, who beat Miss Whitesides by 3 points. ...
Article : 24 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 102 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 77 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 26 Sep 1908, Page 11
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: