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Central Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1906

6 stories in Central Coast's papers

Careless Use of Fire

Gosford Times and Gosford and Wollombi Express · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 2

In dismissing a case of careless use of fire at the local Police Court on Friday last Mr Love, S.M., let fall a few words of wisdom that it would…

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Fire at Mangrove

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 5

Mr Thomas Mackley's boarding house, containing six bedrooms, dining and sitting room and kitchen, together with the furniture and the…

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Fire at Mangrove

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 4

Mr W. J. Chapman, district coroner, held an inquest at Lower Mangrove on Wednesday into the cause of the fire, which occurred on the 1st inst.,…

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In Case of Fire

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 3

A novel feature of resetting the audience of a theatre in care of fire, has been invented by Mr Musshard, of Germany, who has recently made an experiment which is…

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Fire-Balls

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 10

Into a Florence flask containing three or four ounces of water, put thirty grains of phosphorus. Then set the flask over a lamp…

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Fire in Water

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 10

Place a few pieces of phosphuret of lime in a tumbler of water, and bright flashes of light will dart from the surface. This is an…

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