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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

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Devastating Storms American States Visited Villages Swept Away Vancouver, Tuesday Night

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 19 April 1922 · page 2

A message from Chicago gives further particulars of the storms and floods which worked devastation in the State's of Illinois and Indiana…

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Texas Floods

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 4

Reuter.--A message from Fort Worth states that 64 deaths have resulted from the recent floods. Several tributarie of the, Mississippi are rising. It is believed that…

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Wedding Bells HOWE—GALE

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 May 1922 · page 18

During Nuptial Mass at 8 o'­clock on Easter Monday at Our. Lady's of Mount Carmel Church, Sydney, Miss Doris Gladys, only…

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Genoa--A Storm Centre. Grave Danger of Collapse. Lloyd George Angry. London, Sunday Night

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 8 May 1922 · page 2

United Service.--The threatened split in policy between Britain and France at Genoa has been accentuated. Mr. Lloyd George during his discussion with M. Barthon…

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The Weather Heavy Rain in Parts Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 6

Heavy and beneficial rain fell along the coast of New South Wales during yesterday and last night. Showers were falling along the coastal districts…

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League Football Last Night's Meeting Important Matters Discussed a Flood of Eloquence

National Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1922 · page 2

Mr. C. H. Bennett (President) presided over a well attended meeting of the Bathurst Rugby League at Health's last night…

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Fury of Mountain Storm. Hail Provides a White Mantle

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 2

Lithgow apparently just escaped the heavy hail storm which struck Leura and Katoomba on Sunday afternoon, and in a lesser degree other mountain centres west…

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Ireland Londonderry As Storm Centre New Richmond in the Field LONDON,Tuesday

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 1

The messages received in London from various Irish centres disclose a most disquieting state of affairs. There are indications that the hot heads…

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Ireland's Storm Centre. Big Crisis Looming. But Skirmishes Meanwhile. London, Sunday Night

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 2

Router. -- Military reinforcements, including aeroplanes, are arriving in Ulster. The police and military are searching Carrick Hill neighborhood, Belfast. They have…

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The Cyclone

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 12 June 1922 · page 1

The other day the Government Meteorologist said, that there was a cyclone operating 400 miles off our eastern coast. A day or two after he confessed to something…

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Disastrous Storm Life and Property Lost New York

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 13 June 1922 · page 2

A storm of unprecedented violence, accompanied by heavy rain, swept over New York, overturned houses, uprooted thousands of trees in various parks and…

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Death and Disaster Storm Sweeps New York 52 Deaths—millions of Damage Vancouver

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1922 · page 2

A message from New York states that a violent thunderstorm swept this district. Fifty are dead. A Ferris wheel was blown from its…

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Operation in a Storm Ship's Surgeon Lashed to Table

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 1

A drama of the sea that caused the liner America, of the United States Government War Department, to be 12 hours late on reaching Plymouth…

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60 Deaths Over 200 Craft Capsized New York's Record Cyclone Vancouver

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 2

Sixty persons at least are dead as a result of the New York cyclone. Anything like such a storm has never been known in New York. The…

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Another Cyclone Death and Disaster. Vancouver

National Advocate · Monday 19 June 1922 · page 2

Ten are dead and about £1,000,000 worth of damage done as a result of a cyclone at Wisconsin…

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The German Flood Mr. Rodgers Unafraid Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 21 June 1922 · page 1

The Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Rodgers) doubts the ability of the Germans to flood tho Australian markets with cheap German goods. Mr…

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Fearful Flood San Salvador in Ruins Vancouver. Wednesday Night

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 22 June 1922 · page 2

The Red Cross advises that 100 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless by a flood at San Salvador…

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Gale in New Zealand. Houses Wrecked—no Loss of Life. Sydney

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 3 July 1922 · page 6

A violent gale passed over Ta[?] district in the centre of the North Island, N.Z., on Saturday night, and many buildings were wrecked…

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Deluge of German Goods Britain Gets Ready. London, July 6

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 13 July 1922 · page 10

In consequence of the Cabinet proposing to enforce the Safeguarding of Industries Act by putting a duty it 33 1-3 per cent. upon fabric…

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Watch Weathers Flood Kempsey

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 13 July 1922 · page 2

About a week before the flood on July last year Mr. W. H. Trotter, then living at Eurcka, lost his gold watch enclosed in a leather case on his…

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