from Allen Gledhill. John Gary’s great-nephew Claimed To Be Strongest Digger On three Fields “BURLY” McLEAN DROPS IN by John Gary They’re among the men who tell you that the gold rush days – the days of overnight fortunes, bare-knuckle fights, and chamois bags of gold are gone. Those days still live! They’re as rip-roaring […]
A Payable Claim – by Dryblower Murphy
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Although the Sydney Bulletin claimed businessmen at Coolgardie were on more payable claims than the diggers, they were not the only ones, according to E.G. ‘Dryblower’ Murphy, who wrote: A few of the lucky have dropped in on a patch And gone on a rollicking spree, Where a woman is waiting the digger to catch […]
John Shrews TALBOT – grave tales
26/11/2022 By 1 Comment
John Shrews TALBOT ― aged 70yrs, died on 26th August 1907, at Mulline, He was both a Battery Hand, Night Watchman and a Journalist, The cause of his death was suicide, a revolver shot, self-inflicted during a period of temporary insanity, This was the verdict of the Coroner. Above -Copy photograph of Captain John Shrews […]
The 1942 Boulder Bombings – By Peter Skehan
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BOULDER BOMBINGS “GHASTLY TRAGEDY” “TERRIBLE SCENES OF SLAUGHTER” “FOURTEEN MURDERED”
The Woes of Jimmy Wongawol –
19/11/2022 By Leave a Comment
Daily News 1 October 1955, page 8 – by Bob Chambers Jimmy WONGAWOL, anywhere within 100 miles north, east or south of Wiluna, is a man with a problem. He has too many lives — those of his 2 wives, 11 children and 7 dogs He loves them all in his own way, and in […]
