Australian Post – 23 Aug 1993 – sent by Cath Smith What do you want for breakfast? Asked one of the last true Aussie pioneers. There’s some roo if you like, the dog has had some of it, but there’s nothing wrong with the other half. The speaker, with a twinkle in his blue eyes […]
A Massacre at Laverton –
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Western Mail 29 October 1910, page 30 A NATIVE MASSACRE AT LAVERTON A pathetic interest is attached to the following portraits of baby Sunday, aged three months and a half-cast girl Kitty, aged 10 years, in connection with a recent Laverton massacre. The raiders, who were gathered from the surrounding districts of Kalgoorlie, Kookynie. and […]
Reinsman of the Roads – Fred Crews
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Sunday Times 23 August 1936, page 20 Drove Coach For Cobb & Co Thousands of Miles Through the Outback by Coach F. A. CREWS LOOKS BACK ON PIONEERING DAYS – A link with coaching days of sixty years ago is provided by Mr Frederick Albert Crews, of Outram Street, West Perth, who has crowded varied […]
Blood Red Days in the Golden West
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The Truth – Qld -10 January 1926, page 12 Like every other gold rush in history, the outbreak of yellow-gold fever in Western Australia attracted many of the best, and a number of the worst, humans from far and wide. But it was not until the terrible hardships of the pioneers were known to have […]
The Coolgardie Explosion Horror
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West Australian 9 February 1925 & The Daily News 9 February 1925 A COOLGARDIE HORROR AMMONIA CYLINDER OF DEATH Three People Killed DISTRESSING SCENES- The most distressing tragedy ever known in Coolgardie occurred in the early hours of this morning, as the outcome of a destructive fire at Messrs Milligan and Kemp’s butcher’s shop, in […]
