AUSTRALIA NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWSPAPERS
This is my discovery of the month. Amongst the NSW STATE LIBRARY newspapers. Paradise unlimited for me. And for Kati B who says it is much like her job at MEDIA MONITORS where she worked before returning to the country and taking up employment at the IGA Deli and the BOILING BILLY now known as the BLACK BEAR.
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| http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1651031 This one is a wee story about a lost watch in Bellingen. Izzy has a song about a lost watch and a song could well be writ about this one. WATCH. FOUND AFTER 8 YEARS. An inscribed gold watch which was to have been presented by the citizens of Bellingen (N.S.W in 1900 to Thomas Byrnes the postmaster in Bellingen mysteriously disappeared before the presentation. It was found on Sunday in a rubbish tip by Joe White, a boy born since the watch was lost. The watch is still in good order, and will be publicly presented to Mr Byrnes. Saturday 22 September 1917 THE ARGUS |
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