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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

52 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 3

Floods in Tasmania. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 17 August 1900 · page 3

Severe floods are reported from Launceston, where the greater part of the town is submerged…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 4

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How…

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The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 2

AS a general rule, avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 1

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, while cotton thread. How…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 4

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How…

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A Long Nervous Storm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 17 September 1900 · page 1

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How…

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An Ecclesiastical Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 4

An ecclesiastical storm of the first violence is raging in Australia over trie sermon of Dr. Redwood, R.C. Archbishop of Wellington, N.Z, at St. Mary's, Sydney, on the 11th…

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Heavy Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 October 1900 · page 8

A HEAVY thunderstorm passed over the Ballina district on Friday week, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Rain fell heavily for half an hour. Towards the north and of the town…

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A Second Deluge

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1900 · page 4

It has rained here since last Saturday cats-and-dogs. Saturday brought it along from the north-east; but the wind veered round to the south, and for two days it fell…

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Storm at Casino

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 4

A HURRICANE at Casino on Saturday evening last did considerable damage. Shoots of galvanised iron were carried in all directions, trees were blown down, and roofs of houses were carried…

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Great Storm at Copmanhurst. Great Damage to Crops and Property

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 December 1900 · page 8

On Saturday last, at mid-day, the treatening aspect of the heavens was a fitting harbinger of the afternoon's storm. "Something will come out of this," said an old hand. And sure enough…

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Storm in a Teapot

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 December 1900 · page 2

Mr. Editor.—The letters in the Examiner indecent exposure have created quite a little storm in our somnolent country township. Writers in a contemporary endeavour to…

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