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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.…
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100 years ago – 10 September 1921
PRACTICAL SYMPATHY. – Our Progressive member, Lieut-Col. Rutledge, has generously sent along a cheque for £1 1s to the Hon. Secretary, Mrs. A. W. Constable, for the Hospital Ball fund. ILLNESS. – We regret to report that news came through on Thursday, stating that Mr. R. N. Carden who is an inmate of St. Vincent’s Hospital had…
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News from 100 years ago – 7 May 1921
Featured Image: The Manse, Moruya. Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 7 May 192i, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society “The Man From Snowy River,” Wednesday next, May 11th. The best Australian production to date. SILICA MINING. – Messrs. J. McKeon and Foreman Bros. have another parcel of silica from their mine near Potato…
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Some Things Never Change!
We are currently going through the trials and tribulations of waiting for the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout- in whatever shape or form. What we tend to forget is that this is far from being a new story. Just over one hundred years ago residents of our district were waiting patiently for the rollout of…
