Riot at anti conscription meeting in Esplanade crowds pursue Cameron
The Sunday melee on the Esplanade saw about six hundred people including soldiers and a suspected recruiting sergeant clash over conscription. Don Cameron escaped, aided by a lady and a motorbike, as rioters damaged the club and grounds. The incident drew criticism of mob justice and calls for legal restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Cameron
Esplanade
Children of
Israel
Cameron
Don
Jan
Himwell
Defence Department
Tenow
Hughes
Spence
Australia
Labor
Trades Hall
Fragmentary 19th Century Grocery List
A scanned list shows assorted goods with prices, including flour bags of 150 and 50 pounds, 70 pound sugar, tomatoes and sauce, various tonics and medicines such as Woods' Permint Care and Dr Sheldon's New Discovery, Nestle's Milk, sardines, jam, and a powdery compound, with prices in old pence and shillings. The itemized entries imply a general domestic catalog from a bygone era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Chamberlain
Nestle
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Throssell, Son
Stewart
Grocery Department
Glen Ewin
O.k of Jones
Jonean
Carlton
Scaddan
Tvanhoe-Brown Hill
Toll
le Mesurier
Wilson
Agricultural Commission
Esperance Lands Commission
C. E. Dempster
Esperance Railway
Esperance
Wheat Board
Victor G. Cy Risley
Royal Hank Chambers
St. George's Terrace
B. P. Chidlow
The
Fremantle Wool & Grain Stores Ltd
Chas. Mills
Northam
J. HM
Charles Hormann
Essex Street
Fremantle
Avon Bakery
A. Appleton
W. Wyatt