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A letter to the Editor from ‘Enthusiast’ and other news from 100 years ago
Featured image: An advertisement from the Moruya Examiner 24 April 1920. Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 24 April 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society OPEN COLUMN. It must be distinctly understood that we are not responsible for the opinions expressed by our Correspondents. To the Editor, “Moruya Examiner.” Sir. – […]
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Stolen money and a ‘Maiden Hunt’ – News from 100 years ago.
Featured image: Sapper Fred Hutchlings of Bergalia. Fred was an engineer in Palestine when this photo was taken. Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 17 April 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society CONSCIENCE MONEY.- The postal authorities have received a packet posted at the Moruya Post Office, containing £10 in […]
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Have you become a keen jigsaw puzzler during your social isolation?
Our featured image is a mess of jigsaw pieces that need to be put back together to create the image below. If you are interested in completing this jigsaw and others like it – all online – our librarian, Wendy Simes, has found the link for you. One of the real benefits of these online […]
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“Local government is an utter failure” says an irate ratepayer from Moruya
Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 10 April 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society OPEN COLUMN – It must be distinctly understood that we are not responsible for the opinions expressed by our Correspondents. To the Editor “Moruya Examiner.” Sir, – Should the Moruya Progress Association wish to become a […]
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Bushrangers raid Mr Hassall’s cattle and other news from 100 years ago
Featured image: Robbery Under Arms, Charles E. Hammond (1870-1953) / Public domain Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 3 April 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society PICTURE MAKING. – The Pacific Photography Co. is producing the picture “Robbery Under Arms” in Braidwood and district. The company has a number of […]
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DIARY OF A PANDEMIC – The Spanish Flu in Moruya
Featured image: Face masks as both function and fashion are part of pandemic responses 100 years apart. The current coronavirus or COVID-!9 pandemic, with its accompanying social isolation, shortages and fear. isn’t the first pandemic to confront Australia’s health systems. The ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic of 1919 emerged at the end of the First World War, […]
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Eva Mylott, the Queen of Song dies in New York and other news of 100 years ago
Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 27 March 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society Mrs. HUTTON GIBSON (Miss Eva Mylott). Intense grief prevailed when the news came through that Mrs Hutton Gibson (Miss Eva Mylott) had died on the previous Saturday at her home in N.Y., America, aged 40 years. […]
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The editor’s ”’I told you so”, the ‘new’ Country Party and other news from 100 years ago
Featured image: Queen St. Moruya looking westward from Vulcan St. Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 20 March 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society VOTING TO-DAY. No matter how disgusted the electors may feel with our politicians of the past, it is their bounden duty to go to the poll […]
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Inside Our Collection – the Irish Land League Poster
The object The large framed Irish Land League propaganda-style poster depicts the 1881 trial in Dublin of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders of The Irish Land League. The men were arrested on 13 October 1881 and imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for “sabotaging the Land Act”, from where the No […]
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‘Square minded’ folk talk prohibition and other news from a hundred years ago
Featured image: Section of our ‘Milk: the river of life’ exhibition. One of the highlights was an alpha Laval separator. Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 13 March 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society ILLNESS.– Mrs A. Sebbens, post-mistress of Mogo has been seriously ill and confined to her bed […]
The Hatchery: a blog about my adventures in bird watching
