Arthur KING – real name Theodore HERCHLER Born in Germany in September 1859. As a young man Arthur was a student of the Conservatoire of Music where he graduated with honours. He then started working with Gilbert and Sullivan, Doyle Carte in England as a repetiteur or rehearsal pianist. On the 22nd October 1890, he […]
Oldest Bike Store in Australia
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Kalgoorlie Miner, Tuesday 24 December 1901, page 6 ARMSTRONG’S CYCLE AGENCY. The growth of the business of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency ever since its inception has been astonishing, and it would probably be a very difficult matter to find a parallel case. The firm, which is the oldest in this line of business on the goldfields, […]
Fanny Hannah Hunt – pioneer profile
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GOLD- that commodity was so powerful, but as a child, I played with it as a toy. It was a glass phial of specks and small nuggets in liquid and tightly corked. I remember shaking it and watching the dull yellow stuff glint in the light. I must have loved it as no accident ever […]
The Matron and the Major – nurse Annie Jones
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In early 1896 Annie Jones from Bendigo, Victoria, was nursing in the Government hospital at Cue, Western Australia. While she was recovering from a mild form of typhoid fever, word came by camel train that Mr. Magnus Maxton Calder, a member of the firm Calder & Co of Cue, was suffering from typhoid fever in […]
Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –
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Murchison Advocate 27 February 1904, page 3 Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40yrs, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a young fellow named Thomas Frank Rassmussen who was the proprietor of a Gold treatment […]
