Ready for war

By Chris Earl
Updated August 3 2014 - 8:57am, first published August 2 2014 - 1:00am

It was life as usual for Bendigo a century ago as miners quickly came up to the surface and rushed to football grounds around the city for Wednesday afternoon matches, unaware that war had been declared on the other side of the world.

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