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Read more about the article The dairy herd travelled by punt
Mrs Farley and her children cross the river by punt, ahead of Mr Farley and the dairy herd.

The dairy herd travelled by punt

It was February 24, 1948, and the Farley family of Eagleton, near Raymond Terrace, NSW, had a difficult house-moving problem. The farming family was shifting from their home of the past 10 years at Eagleton to a new address at Millers Forest. The problem was how to shift the farm's 47 milking cows across the Hunter River. The Farleys' dairy herd boarding the punt. Fortunately, the Raymond Terrace punt supplied the solution. Shortly after midday on the day of the big shift, Mrs Farley and her three children - Cecil, Warren and Nola - crossed the…

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Read more about the article This week in old newspapers: February 16 to 22.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, creator of "The New Deal" and subject of an assassination attempt in 1933.

This week in old newspapers: February 16 to 22.

A round-up of news and other items plucked from the Trove website. Click the red headings to visit the stories on Trove. *************************************************************************************************************** February 16, 1933: The Newcastle Sun A would-be assassin fired five shots at US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida. Guiseppe Zangara The bullets missed the President-elect but wounded one of his bodyguards and also the Mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak. Roosevelt was the architect of the "New Deal" which aimed to tackle the Great Depression in a variety of ways, including restoring power to trade unions, putting spending power back in…

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Read more about the article Plane wreck a monument to a war hero and an ill-starred venture

Plane wreck a monument to a war hero and an ill-starred venture

Stand by your glasses steady, for each man who takes off and flies. Here’s to the dead already; three cheers for the next man who dies. Toast proposed by British World War 2 aircrew following the death of a comrade. Doug Swain DFC at Camden in about 1948. Photo by John Laming. In the foothills of the Barrington Tops, in NSW, pieces of a wrecked Lockheed Hudson aircraft are a lonely monument to the three men who died in the 1954 crash, including World War 2 bomber pilot Doug Swain DFC. The wreckage is also a…

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