Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40 years, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a young fellow named Thomas Frank Rassmussen, who was the proprietor of a gold treatment works in Boulder. While being searched […]
The Hermit of Kintore Hill – Joe Vesta
Daily News Perth 21 October 1933, page 12 AN OUTBACK HERMIT LIVES IN A CAVE PROSPECTOR AND PHILOSOPHER A cave, on a hill overlooking a lonely road on the goldfields, has been converted into a hermitage by an old prospector, Joe Vesta, who has lived there alone for many years, seeing only the mailman once […]
The Heat Wave by Andree Hayward
The Heat Wave When the earth was parched and the sky aflame When the old year slept beyond praise or blame In an evil moment, a heatwave came Some dropped the pen, and some dropped the pick Some were dying, and some more were sick And sunstroke cases came fast and thick Creation dropped in […]
Not A Gold Rush, But Still
Mirror Perth 15 August 1931, page 19 NOT A GOLD RUSH. BUT STILL !! A Rush On Richmond Beer Continuous Streams Of People Now Flow Daily Into The Grand Hotel, Kalgoorlie, and the Shamrock Hotel, Boulder. RICHMOND beer has captured the Goldfields, as it has done every other part of Australia. The popular beverage is […]
Swearin ‘n’ Spittin – by Arthur Dunstan
Swearin ‘n’ Spittin – Kalgoorlie Goldminers were a great bunch of blokes. Their work was hard and dangerous, and most of them spent their leisure time in one of the 37 pubs. They drank beer as if it were their last day on earth. Sometimes, unfortunately, it was. Besides living from day to day, the […]
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