Tag: newspapers

  • News from 100 years ago – 15 October 1921

    News from 100 years ago – 15 October 1921

    WHY EDITORS BECOME RICH. –  Do you know why all newspaper men are rich? Look at it this way: – A child is born in the neighborhood. The attending physician gets £5. (The maternity hospital gets a “tenner” or so, too, in most instances.) The editor gives the loud-mouthed infant and the happy parents a “send-off” and gets £0.…

  • 100 Years Ago – 30 August 1913

    100 Years Ago – 30 August 1913

    GOOD TRAVELLING –  Last week Mr. A.F. Walker, manager of the local Bank of N.S.Wales, with four adults and a juvenile in his new Ford motor car travelled to Goulburn in 6 ½ hours.  Not bad, considering the state of the roads and steep mountains which had to be negotiated in order to reach the…