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Boer Wars

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HOYFM.ACL2024.42/5
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Title
Boer Wars
Scope and content
A scrapbook containing various newspaper clippings from the first and second Boer Wars; contents: a handwritten letter of terms of consent agreed for a legal case (dated Jan. 1875); petty sessions weights and measures act attestation (1879); circulars to magistrates at petty sessions (1879); a page of remembrance for Elizabeth Baird, dying at just six (1881); various newspaper clippings on subjects like: ‘War Incidents’ (Boer War); cartoons of the Boer War (1899); selected poetry; newspaper biographies and portrait illustrations of Boer War soldiers/ generals; ‘Battle of Dundee, how the Irish fought the Dutch’; ‘Opening of the Masonic Hall Bangor’; ‘Silage without cost’; ‘The Land Court Rules’; ‘The Land Act’; various poems.
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