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Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –

20/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Murchison Advocate 27 February 1904, page 3 Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40yrs, 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 […]

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Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A Golden Wedding in a Goldfields Town

13/07/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Sun, Kalgoorlie 8 March 1914, page 7 A GOLDEN WEDDING IN A GOLDFIELDS TOWN On Wednesday last Mr and Mrs Thomas Hickey of Burbanks celebrated their Golden Wedding at the village hall. Dancing was indulged in and the veteran joined in all the dances with the enthusiasm of a boy despite his seventy years. […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Burbanks, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Joseph Salinger – grave tales

13/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Joseph Salinger (Hebrew Name: Yosef ben Avraham Ya’akov) died at Nurse Egans Private Hospital on the 30th January 1907 aged 41 years. At the time of his death he was the licensee of the Boulder City Hotel in Piesse Street, Boulder and prior to this was the licensee of both the Denver City and the […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Hotels, Jewish history, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

Gullewa Cemetery –

13/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Gullewa Cemetery – Reserve 3911 Coordinates: -28.5507826, 116.3726805 GULLEWA  GOLDFIELD – The W.A. Record 27th February 1897 The Gullewa Goldfield is situated N.E. from Mingenew 80 miles, and east of Wurarga on the Mullewa-Cue line, which is the nearest railway station, about 18 miles, and is only one day’s journey by rail from the Port […]

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Russian Jack – the other J F K

13/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift: a journal of bush history Russian Jack and Synchronicity  –  by Diane Oldman I rather thought I had made up the word ‘synchronicity’ and when I attempted to look it up in several dictionaries I couldn’t find it. So I decided it was a new noun – my noun. Then I […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Halls Creek, Western Australia

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