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

Floods & storms, 1952

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Storm Damage in Cuba

National Advocate · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 2

HAVANA, Thursday: Heavy property damage was reported yesterday in Havana and on the Cuban north coast when a violent storm lashed…

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Heavy Rain Good Falls in the West

National Advocate · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Some heavy rainfalls were reported from various parts of the West during the weekend…

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Storm Damage at Coonamble

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Hailstones almost as large as cricket balls, and gale force winds, caused heavy damage in…

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BOWLS Pennants Final Interrupted By Storm

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 2

The final of the No. 2 Pennant series. Bathurst v. gow, which commenced on Saturday, had to be postponed…

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Heavy Rain Throughout District Welcomed with Open Arms

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 1

Storms which broke over the whole of the Central West last weekend replenished dwindling domestic and stock water supplies…

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Heavy Storm By-passed Orange

Central Western Daily · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 3

Heavy rain and hail fell for three minutes along Woodward Road, three miles from Orange, yesterday…

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Sixteen Missing Storms in North Sea

National Advocate · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday: The crews of two ships—a German trawler and a Finnish merchant vessel—are missing in the North Sea…

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Q'ld Drought Relief Coastal Flood Warning BRISBANE

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1952 · page 1

Primary products in a 250 mile trip of the central Queensland coast now face the winter confidently, following widespread soaking rains…

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Truman's Books Frank Disclosures Storm in U.S.A.

National Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1952 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: Prseident Truman secretly feared on two occasion in recent years that a third world war was about to break out…

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Freak Storm Strikes Coast Highway Blocked

National Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: A wind and hailstorm tore through forest country, near the Pacific Highway at Nambucca this afternoon, tearing up dozens of trees,…

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Deaths Reach 222 in U.s. Storms, Floods

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday.—Death roll in the week-end storms and floods that swept over six U.S. Southern States has now risen to 222, the American Red Cross reports…

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222 Victims Death and Devastation Torandoes and Floods in Usa

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Monday: The American Red Cross today raised to 222 its estimate of the number of persons killed by storms and floods…

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Snow and Gales Blizzards Sweep Europe

National Advocate · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday: Blizzards are sweeping northern Europe in one of the worst spells of bitter weather ever recorded at this…

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O. P. R. Weekly Review Cyclone Ringlock Sheep Fencing

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 9

We have available for immediate delivery good stocks of the well-known 6-line 28” Ringlock Sheep Fencing at very keen…

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Storms Lash U.s. Floods Menace Towns

National Advocate · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK Sunday: Storms are causing havoc in many parts of the United States and the latest flood is threatened in Montana, one of the…

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Flood Threat in America

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday-- America's Missouri valley and other places face their worst flood threats in 70 years as the…

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Scarlet Fever Abating Since Heavy Rain

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 2

Lyndhurst Shire Health Inspector, Mr. F. Pearce, in his report to Monday's meeting of Councillors, stated…

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Thousands Flee From Missouri Floods

Central Western Daily · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The worst flood in 70 years rolled down the Missouri Valley yesterday as thousands of persons prepared to flee or battled to raise threatened levees. As the raging Missouri River…

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Missouri Floods

Central Western Daily · Friday 11 April 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.— National Guardsmen were called out in Sioux City, Iowa, yesterday. to fight the rampaging…

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Floods Ravage U.s. Widespread Damage

National Advocate · Monday 14 April 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday: A darker shade has developed in the weather picture in the US. Floods in the middle west have…

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