Showing posts with label 100 years ago this week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100 years ago this week. Show all posts
Friday, December 14, 2018

100 years ago this week - Koo Wee Rup is overrun by hoodlums

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100 years ago this week - this letter about crime in Koo Wee Rup was published in The Argus of December 24, 1918. The Argus December 24, 1...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

100 years ago this week - An embrocation

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Local farmers may find this embrocation of use, if you could actually still purchase the ingredients. Farmers Advocate October 14, ...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

100 years ago this week - Telephone charges

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The rates charged for conversation with the undermentioned places from the Warragul exchange are as under for the first three minutes or po...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

100 years ago this week - Kirwan's store at Vervale

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100 years ago this week - John Kirwan, store owner, was caught illegally selling alcohol. Kirwan's store, at Vervale, was on the corner...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

100 years ago this week - Dalmore Roads

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100 years ago this week comes this report from the Lang Lang Guardian  of September 8, 1915 about Dalmore ratepayers prepared to pay extra ...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

100 years ago this week - Junior teacher position available

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Want a job as a teacher? Then apply to the Bunyip State School. You must be over 16, apply in your own hand writing, and prepared to pay a ...

100 years ago this week - Iona citizens support the War effort

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It's always interesting to read local newspapers and see how they either make or report pronouncements on international matters. This r...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Mr Rodger the baker at Bunyip - 100 years ago this week

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Hers is  a great advertisement from Mr Rodger the baker and general storekeeper at Bunyip in the Bunyip Free Press of July 22, 1915. In ke...
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Boys' football match - 100 years ago this week.

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From The Lang Lang Guardian of July 21 1915, comes this account of a a football match between the boys at Yallock and Yannathan State Schoo...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

100 years ago this week - Potatoes

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100 years ago this week, The Australasian , in the Country Gleanings column reported on the good potato season on the Swamp. The Aust...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Paying your Rates - 100 years ago

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How to pay your rates 100 years ago. Bunyip Free Press May 20, 1915 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129631341
Sunday, April 19, 2015

100 years ago this week - St Joseph's Convent Iona opened

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St Joseph's Convent Iona opened one hundred years ago, on April 11, 1915.  The Convent housed the Sisters of St Joseph, who established...
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Friday, March 6, 2015

100 years ago this week - Cora Lynn Ball

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This report of one of the best balls ever held in Cora Lynn comes from the  Bunyip Free Press of March 11, 1915. The Ball at Cora Lynn B...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

100 years ago this week - Granite quarry

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It seems that quarries haven't always been unwelcome in this area - this is a report form the Bunyip Free Press of December 31, 1914. ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

100 years ago this week - strychnine poisoning

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This tragic report was in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal on December 24, 1914.  Sadly for this little girl, strychnine used to be...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Drainage of Bunyip - 100 years ago this week

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Here's an interesting article about drainage (or lack of it ) in Bunyip. The drain went from the Hall, along Main Street to the Railway...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Miss Bell, confectioner, fruiterer and caterer.

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Feeling peckish? Then call in at Miss Bell's shop in Main Street in Bunyip and you can purchase "hot pies, tea, coffee and cocoa a...

100 years ago this week - Patriotic Concert

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Here's an account of a Patriotic Concert held at Koo-Wee-Rup on October 30, 1914.  The school children put on the concert, well trained...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

100 years ago this week - Rabbit Inspector resigns

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A report in the Bunyip Free Press of October 22, 1914 said that Mr Kelleher, the Rabbit Inspector had resigned, Bunyip Free Press Oc...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Potatoes and Asparagus

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Here's the Crop report from 100 years ago.  Bunyip Free Press October 1, 1914 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12962960...