Sunday Times Perth – 5 September 1943, page 4 The Little Man Who Strangled His Mate In the days when the deep leads attracted thousands to Kanowna, Moore was among the adventurous gold-seekers. In the hurly-burly of the boom days of Kanowna, when thousands rushed from all parts of Australia to what afterwards became the […]
The Founding of the Coolgardie Miner –
The Founding of “The Coolgardie Miner” The Golden West Magazine Avon Argus and Cunderdin-Meckering-Tammin Mail 13 April 1935 W. E. CLARE tells the story of Coolgardies first Newspaper, its Vicissitude and Fortunes, those of the “Old Camp,” and the men of the” Roaring Nineties·. “It is indeed a far cast of my memory. Hardly a […]
When War Came to Kalgoorlie Boulder –
When War came to Kalgoorlie-Boulder by Doug Daws As time passes human memories dim and new generations lose connection to the difficulties experienced by the earlier generations. This is never more obvious than when we look back through the mists of time to the Second World War. Although we here in Kalgoorlie-Boulder were a long […]
Double Murder Suicide – The Glass Family Tragedy
Daily News, Perth – 20 February 1893 TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR NORTHAMPTON. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A FATHER SHOOTS HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. THE TREVENSON TRAGEDY A terrible tragedy has just been reported from Trevenson, 20 miles from Northampton. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 pm, William Charles Glass, aged about fifty, a squatter and long resident in this […]
Mick of the Murchison – Doing Time
Western Mail 8 July 1937, page 11 The Dolly Pot – Over the Plates. “Doing Time.” In Tuckanarra, a mining town about 25 miles north of Cue, there resided in the late 1800s a man named Mick –. , He was an excellent judge of a horse, a good rider and bushman, and knew to […]
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