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Central Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

8 stories in Central Coast's papers

Fire!

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 3

Michael (who has been keeping up the previous night, and whose head is not quite clear at church time next morning): 'An' phwat are the bells ringin' for, Pat?'…

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Science and Invention. a New Fire Alarm

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 3

A SENSITIVE fire-alarm which has been brought out by a Danish inventor only acts when a sudden wave of heat is generated. A U-tube, 4in. high, is…

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In Case of Fire

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 3

'There is always room at the top,' remarked the person with the chronic quotation habit. 'Yes,' replied the easy going optimist,…

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Mixture for Fire-cement

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 4

To make a fire-cement use 100 parts fire clay (wet), three parts black oxide manganese, three parts white sand, and a half part powdered asbestos. Thoroughly mix,…

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Suspicious Fire at Woy Woy

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 5

A fire occurred at Woy Woy at about 2.15 a.m. last Tuesday, where—by a boatched, together with a valuable sailing boat, sails, cars, boating…

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Christmas Fires

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 5

When bright Christmas fires are glowing And the fields are white with snow, Down beside the fair Penobscot There comes back the long ago…

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Kindles Holy Fires

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 2

My sentiment is that the Christmas is, of all our festivities, the one most thoroughly interwoven with the home and family. It is the day which kindles in…

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The Woy Woy Fires

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 8

At the Gosford Police Court last Friday before Mr Love, S.M., and Mr Pickering, J. P., Gerald Clare McKillop, on remand, was brought up to answer a…

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