Forced to follow on after failing in the first innings, Queensland made a great uphill fight in the Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales at the Cricket Ground ...
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Article : 97 wordsOn Monday morning, Alfred Hall, a farmer at Tallarm, near Macksville, was driving a motor lorry containing 18 passengers to Nambucca Heads. After rounding the turn at ...
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Article : 126 wordsMrs. W. A. McDonald who, under her maiden name, Kitty Slattery, in the early 'Eighties won fame as a singer, died at her home at Mosman on New Year's Day. ...
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Article : 71 wordsPreaching in All Saints' Cathedral, Bishop Long attacked a section of the Press for publishing unfounded reports concerning the selection of a new bishop for Bathurst. ...
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Article : 95 wordsThe dismissal notices served on about 100 linesmen employed by the Postal Department expired yesterday, and the men were paid off. The official explanation of the ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Stanley James Shaw, 20, a visitor from Paddington, was drowned in the river at Morpeth. Shaw was swimming with a companion when ...
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Article : 140 wordsInformation was received by the Russellstreet police to-day concerning the conduct of a woman aged 28 years, who for some time has been posing as a schoolboy. Wearing a ...
Article : 184 wordsHer Majesty's Theatre: "The Girl Friend," 2, 8. Theatre Royal: "The Terror," 2, 8. Criterion Theatre: "A Cuckoo in the Nest," 2, 8. St. James Theatre: "Archie," 2.15, 8. ...
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Article : 93 wordsTo fall 50 feet from the window on the sixth floor of Maddocks and Co.'s Kent-street building to the awning on the first floor, and escape death, was the experience yesterday of ...
Article : 66 wordsWilliam Gardiner, a well-known Jockey, when swimming a racehorse in the river fell off and was drowned. It is thought that the horse threw back his head and hit ...
Article : 69 wordsA number of robberies were reported during the week-end. The heaviest loser was C. A. Brownett, trading as J. Torpy's [?]oot Store, where a sum estimated at £170 was taken from ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 4 Jan 1928, Page 14
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