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Collapse of tombstone: Ballarat incident [13 November 1939]

13 November 2022 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This small article was published in The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 13 November 1939.] Collapse of tombstone Ballarat incident Ballarat, Sunday. — An escape from serious injury through a tombstone collapsing while he was grave-digging was experienced by Charles … [Read more...] about Collapse of tombstone: Ballarat incident [13 November 1939]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, SourceTrove, workplace accidents, year1939

“Spirit of 1914 still lives”: Armistice lessons [13 November 1939]

11 November 2022 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article, regarding a church service held for Armistice Day (later known as Remembrance Day), was published in the “In the Churches” section of The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 13 November 1939.] “Spirit of 1914 still lives” Armistice lessons Led by the … [Read more...] about “Spirit of 1914 still lives”: Armistice lessons [13 November 1939]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: 500x500, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, SourceTrove, year1939

Design [poem by P. I. O’Leary, 2 November 1939]

12 April 2021 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This poem by P. I. O’Leary was published in The Advocate (Melbourne, Vic.), 2 November 1939.] Design Here beauty — not flower-frail or artly-soft for surface grace to vibrate with æsthetic pulse alone — beats commandant thro’ winged, commingled … [Read more...] about Design [poem by P. I. O’Leary, 2 November 1939]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Patrick Ignatius O'Leary (1888-1944) (author), poem, SourceTrove, St Patrick's Cathedral (Melbourne), year1939

Editorial [by Rex Ingamells, April 1939]

29 July 2020 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article by Rex Ingamells was published in Venture: Jindyworobak Quarterly Pamphlet (Adelaide), April 1939.] Editorial The Jindyworobaks stand for a precise cultural movement. While we realize that culture springs from varied sources, we insist that a … [Read more...] about Editorial [by Rex Ingamells, April 1939]

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Australianism, Jindyworobak publication, Rex Ingamells (1913-1955) (author), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Despair [poem by Paula Fitzgerald, April 1939]

29 July 2020 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This poem by Paula Fitzgerald was published in Venture: Jindyworobak Quarterly Pamphlet (Adelaide), April 1939.] Despair Despair has found me . . . . for I had to pass By Madness, vacant-eyed in senile way, And see her beckoning in foolish play To phantom … [Read more...] about Despair [poem by Paula Fitzgerald, April 1939]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Jindyworobak publication, Paula Fitzgerald (dates?) (author), poem, SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 15 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XV. Throughout the country that day more than 40,000 men laid down their arms, and our conquest was complete. We entered on the third stage of our humiliation. The first was that three weeks of … [Read more...] about Chapter 15 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 14 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XIV. We five little thought when we cut across from Donnybrook to Whittlesea that afternoon of the strange wild life for which we were headed. It was dark when we reached Yea, and strange, after … [Read more...] about Chapter 14 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 13 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XIII. Although we did not know it then, that decision we five made that afternoon on the empty highway at Donnybrook, was typical of the disintegration of a nation. On Thursday, October 13, the … [Read more...] about Chapter 13 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 12 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XII. Looking back on that tragic week from September 23, its every hour brought its own irreparable disaster. In the seven days, Australia had been torn from its apparently unassailable pedestal … [Read more...] about Chapter 12 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 11 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XI. There was a refugee bureau at the South Melbourne cricket ground where information could be obtained. Here our story that we had come from Sydney by the South Coast attracted immediate … [Read more...] about Chapter 11 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

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Chapter 10 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter X. It was on Tuesday, while Fergus and I were engaged in the appalling work of gathering the remains of the victims of Saturday, that the patients in the hospital were evacuated to emergency … [Read more...] about Chapter 10 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

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Chapter 9 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter IX. In making this digression on the fate of the lost State, my desire has been to set out fully the situation that the Federal Government was called upon to face during the three first days from … [Read more...] about Chapter 9 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 8 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter VIII. This story of the occupation of Western Australia demonstrates fully the diabolic thoroughness of the preliminary staff work that put the State into the enemy’s hands almost without a blow … [Read more...] about Chapter 8 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 7 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter VII. As we absorbed this mass of ill tidings, Fergus rubbed a chin that bore three days’ growth of bristles — we were an insanitary pair — and said thoughtfully, “Mon, if that yarn about the … [Read more...] about Chapter 7 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

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Chapter 6 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter VI. It was about time some strong authority had taken over. While many people returned to help, those ghouls that infest every community also put in an appearance, robbing the dead and looting. … [Read more...] about Chapter 6 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 5 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter V. For more than half an hour, for the second time that day, destruction and devastation swept across the doomed city. This time only four of the battleships and six cruisers participated, the … [Read more...] about Chapter 5 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Chapter 4 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter IV. In our sorrows and tragedies, we humans are individualists. We can never enter into the feelings of another, neither can another enter ours. Each must sit alone in his own little hell. When I … [Read more...] about Chapter 4 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

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Chapter 3 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter III. One of the strange and incomprehensible features of that first day is, that though I have prayed to forget the events of the afternoon, and cannot, I can remember so little of its earlier … [Read more...] about Chapter 3 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

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Chapter 2 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter II. When I made my boast that I would put the story of our tragedy into writing I had no idea that the job would prove so strenuous. Dodging the “blowflies,” as we call the P.P. spies in our camp … [Read more...] about Chapter 2 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

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Chapter 1 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter I. “And were there really shops full of lollies and toys once upon a time, Uncle Wally?” Rex asked dubiously. “Plenty of them, towhead,” I told him. He raised his head from my shoulder … [Read more...] about Chapter 1 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Prologue [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This is the prologue from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Prologue In presenting this transcript of the Walter Burton manuscript for publication, the editors desire to remind the reader that its main value lies in its being the longest of the fourteen … [Read more...] about Prologue [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: chapters Tagged With: Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), SourceIACLibrary, year1939

Fools’ Harvest [novel by Erle Cox, 1939]

31 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This novel by Erle Cox (1873-1950) originally appeared in serial form in The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) in 1938. It was then published in a book format in 1939. It is a story about a fictional invasion of Australia. It was an popular novel, and added to the debate over … [Read more...] about Fools’ Harvest [novel by Erle Cox, 1939]

Filed Under: books booklets pamphlets Tagged With: @ contents list added, book, Erle Cox (1873-1950) (author), Fools' Harvest (Erle Cox 1939), invasion novels, invasion stories, SourceIACLibrary, year1939

“Dryblower” [poem by Jack Sorensen, 9 March 1939]

22 January 2014 · 1 Comment

[Editor: A poem by Jack Sorensen, published in The Northern Times, 5 May 1939. The poem is about “Dryblower” Murphy, who died on 9 March 1939.] “Dryblower” His last copy spiked, and his last proof read, The bard of a fledgling land is dead, And a voice that sang of land … [Read more...] about “Dryblower” [poem by Jack Sorensen, 9 March 1939]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Dryblower Murphy (1866-1939) (subject), Jack Sorensen (John Alfred Sorensen) (1907-1949), poem, SourceTrove, year1939

When New Year’s Day Comes Round [poem by “Dryblower” Murphy, 1 January 1939]

21 January 2014 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: A poem by “Dryblower” Murphy, published in The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), 1 January 1939.] When New Year’s Day Comes Round (By Dryblower.) Time registers another notch On his eternal track. His cohorts keep his ward and watch In castle and in shack. Since … [Read more...] about When New Year’s Day Comes Round [poem by “Dryblower” Murphy, 1 January 1939]

Filed Under: poetry Tagged With: Dryblower Murphy (1866-1939) (author), New Year, poem, SourceTrove, year1939

Capital punishment [letter to the editor, 5 May 1939]

15 September 2013 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: A letter to the editor from the Rev. W. R. McEwen, in support of capital punishment. Published in The Frankston and Somerville Standard, 5 May 1939.] Capital punishment. (To the Editor.) Sir, — I appreciate your paper with its independent outlook, its sense of … [Read more...] about Capital punishment [letter to the editor, 5 May 1939]

Filed Under: letters to the editor Tagged With: capital punishment, SourceTrove, year1939

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