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 […]
Happy New Year
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Dear Readers I would like to wish you all a very happy (or happier) New Year. For many of us, this has been a tough year with COVID causing distress for many. I hope that your families have not been directly affected. However, just about everyone has a ‘COVID’ story about what it has meant […]
Michael Henry McAppion – grave tales
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MCAPPION Michael Henry — was aged 29yrs when he died on the 26 Aug 1920, at the Leonora Hospital. His occupation was given as a Labourer. The cause of death was Morbus Cordis, Chronic Nephritis & Heart Failure. He was the second son of Robert Michael ‘Mick’ MCAPPION (Labourer) and Caroline nee PALMER. He was born […]
Mr Schumann – a man of enterprise
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Margaret Hartley’s ancestors had a long and varied history in the Murchison district of Western Australia. She has very kindly sent me the following photographs and details of her Schumann family. The Schumann family outside their house at Day Dawn about 1907 GULLEWA GOLDFIELD The WA Record 27th Feb1897
The Resolution:
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The Resolution. A strong and stalwart man was he, And he sat in the shearing shed And shore, on the distant Boolooree, Where the best of sheep are bred. He sang in a voice that was full and deep, And his shear blades merrily rang, And he snipped and snipped at his bleating sheep; And […]
