SOMETHING should be done at once by “our city fathers” with reference to the state of some of the drains…
Browsing: 100 Years Ago This Week
THIS evening a welcome home will be accorded Corporal F. McDonald D.C.M. and Gunner H. Upton, (who have been invalided…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn A DISTRESSING fatality occurred in Melbourne on Thursday last when a lad named Arthur Albert Verney…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn A STORM of great violence, for which no precedent can be found in the history of…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn IN consequence of numerous complaints regarding youths armed with pea rifles, shooting indiscriminately at windows, railway…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn A CHILD of five years has been missing from Frankston since Saturday afternoon. The foster mother,…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn JOHN Stewart, of Carrum Vale Farm, Seaford, was shot on Sunday, through the foot, by a…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn AN OFFICIAL WARNING. With the dry weather and high winds serious losses through fire have occurred…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn DURING the early hours of Wednesday morning (Boxing Day) 4 boys, who were amongst the lads…
THE referendum to decide for or against conscription was held throughout the Commonwealth on the 20th December, and the latest…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn TO THE VICTORIAN MOTHERS OF SOLDIERS. You who have already done so much for Australia by…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn SERGEANT Tracy and A. W. Glencross, Esq will address a public meeting at Somerville on Monday…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn CR MASON drew attention to the disturbance that had occurred at Frankston on the previous Saturday,…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn AMONGST the names in the last list of returning wounded soldiers we are pleased to see…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn THE State Elections were held on Thursday and resulted in the defeat of the Ministrial Party.…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn THE following cases were disposed of at the Frankston Court of Petty Sessions on Monday last,…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn “PLEASE keep on sending us all the cigarettes you can”, was the message received the other…
ON Monday last Mr A. G. Wilcox returned to his home in Frankston. After being on active service for fifteen…
OWNERS of hackney carriages are reminded that they must renew their licences forthwith for the year ending 30th September 1918.…
THE sad news was conveyed to Mr. G Upton last week that his son Gunner H. G. Upton had been…
MR R. Clark, engineer on one of the dredges at Naval Base, has the unique distinction of having experienced two…
IT is with extreme regret we have to record the death of Mr John Reynolds, which took place at St…
A CASE of snakebite occurred at Frankston on Wednesday afternoon, the victim being a school boy named Alexander Nicholson. It…
THE pig, kindly donated to the Wattle Club by Mr Reeves of “The Grange” Mornington Road, has proved to be…
Unveiling of Alfred E. Bates Memorial. In July last, at the suggestion of Mr Jas. Noble, who had the approval…
THE sad news was received Mrs Westaway, of Somerville, last week, that her son, Sergeant Leslie W. Westaway, had died…
NEXT Saturday, September 1st is to be a “Red Letter Day” for Frankston, and thousands of people will be given…
A FATAL motor accident occurred at Mornington on Wednesday afternoon, (says the “Age”.) As Mr Albert Dawson, of Two Bay’s…
LAST Wednesday a band of “tin kettlers” went down to give the new bride and bridegroom, Mr and Mrs Hanton,…
“IN some undefined way a good many people here seem to think an Australian is an uncivilised sort of being,…