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This collection of historical articles on South Australian towns and people, readers' contributions, reminiscences and personal experiences, appeared in the South Australian newspaper 'Chronicle' 1932-1937; the Register 1925, and South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (1877-1878).
They have been harvested from Trove, (first having been painstakingly corrected from OCR, and saved), and then edited, reformatted and placed on this compendium "repository" site, which is searchable.
Towns, people and things we ought to know (68 articles)
In Quest of the South-East (7 articles)
"Ancient History" 73 Years in South Australia - by Lieut. Col. J. W. Castine looking at towns in the mid-North (7 articles)
Stunning Similes and Other Stimulating Turns of Phrase [editorial] making the author's style of writing eminently readable
Who was "Our Special Representative?" [editorial] Almost certainly it was Harold Sexton.
Real Life Stories of South Australia (readers' contributions 1932-38). Although not written by Harold Sexton, they were quite probably edited by him, and some of them seem to have been prefaced by him. Approx. 830 articles.
Memories of an Old Police Officer, by ex-Inspector C. Lievre. 16 articles that appeared in the Register between August and November 1925.
Early Experiences of Colonial Life, by "An Arrival of 1838". 45 articles written by John Wrathall Bull, that appeared in the South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail between May 5, 1877 and April 13, 1878
A selection of historical articles written by A. T. Saunders, that appeared in early Adelaide newspapers.
See also a sister website devoted to the Early Days of Eyre Peninsula by J. D. Somerville, 129 articles published in the Port Lincoln Times between 1934 and 1937.
Members of Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Maori communities are advised that this text may contain names and images of deceased people. Readers should also be aware that certain words, terms or descriptions may be culturally sensitive and be considered inappropriate today, but may have reflected the author’s/creator’s attitude or that of the period in which they were written.
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