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Central Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

4 stories in Central Coast's papers

End of the World. a Rough Finish Predict[?] Floods and Showers of Rocks

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 14

The contrast between ebb and high tide will gradually grow; the level of the seas will rise higher and higher until two colossal mountains of water…

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Breaking the Drought. (Published by Arrangement.) with Floods of Liquor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 2 August 1923 · page 14

More than 500,000 counterfeit prescriptions, each calling for a pint of whisky, were filled by New York City drug stores in the past five months…

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Two Storms

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1923 · page 15

The thunderstorm that burst over Gosford on Sunday morning will be considered mild in comparison with the storm of applause that will break…

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The Coastal Gale

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1923 · page 17

"Another coastal gale has taken its toll."—Common news item. The deep blue sea, it is not always , blue,…

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