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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

144 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 8

A Mad Youth's Freak. He Fires Flat Buildings

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 4

Late on the night of 9th November, the New York police arrested a youth named Frank Morris, who is accused of attempting to burn a large block of…

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TELEGRAMS Latest Cable News. LONDON, Monday, Fatal Fire on a Boat

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 2

A Mississippi River boat caught fire and burned to the water's edge after being beached. Four people were killed and dozens of…

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Soap Works on Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 1

The works of Messrs. Ogston and Tennant, soap manufacturers, St. Rollox, Glasgow, were destroyed by fire yesterday. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed. Machinery crashed…

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Scientific Notes. Motor Tricycle Fire Apparatus

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 6

Fire extinguis[?]ring authorities arc constantly agitating for new and improved forms of emergency fire engines for narrow city streets; but it…

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Forest Fires. London, July 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 1

The inhabitants of Cornucopia, Wisconsin, have fled, as the town is almost surrounded by , forest fires, which are raging in this quarter of the State…

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The Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 2

The endeavours to bring the Goulburn Fire Brigade up-to-date are beginning to bear fruit. Patent hitch harness, has been installed, and two fine horses, have their stalls handy…

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A Fire Alarm

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 4

On Thursday night between half-past ten o’olock and eleven, the clang-clang of the fire-bell was heard, and instantly the almost deserted Barrowa and Main-streets…

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A Town Destroyed. Great Fire in Canada. London, July 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 1

A great fire has occurred at Campbelltown, a town on Chaleur Bay, Northern Now Brunswick. The town is practically destroyed, only two houses escaping the flames…

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Canadian Forest Fires. London, July 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 2

Forest fires are raging at Nelson, Kaslo, and Lardo, in the Kootenay district of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia. Immense destruction of property has been done…

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[Reuter's.] London, Sunday. Great Fire at New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 4

The New York Metropolitan Steamship. pier, six floats, and several barges have been burned. The damage is estimated at £500,000…

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Fire!

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 2

Many residents of Young we're startled on Thursday morning, just after 3 o'clock, by the constant " Cock-a-doodle-doo" of the whistle of the locomotive attached to the…

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A Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 4

AT various intervals between three and half-past three o’clock on Thursday morning, a large number of our residents, in their turn and according…

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Blaze at a Cinematograph

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 2

Lithgow, Monday.—While moving, pictures were in progress at the Oddfellows'. Hall on Saturday night the light in the biography suddenly failed, and simultaneously flames…

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Fire Brigade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 4

A fire brigade has been formed and organised in the town, and is in working order under the command of Captain. A. Barnes, who has nine members on the staff. A new,…

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[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. Fatal Fire at an Hotel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 4

The Kelvin Hotel at Belfast has been burned. Three persons were killed and five others badly injured through jumping to the ground…

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Fire Brigades Board Act

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 6

Certain municipalities, it is understood, have shown an inclination to test the powers of the Fire Brigades Board in connection with the administration of the Act. The ground for the trouble is said to be…

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Fire in Draper's Shop. London, August 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 2

The fusing of an electric light set fire to a window in a drapery shop in Accrington, Lancashire, on Saturday, when the shop was crowded. The premises were soon ablaze, and a terrible rash…

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Fire Brigades Bill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 4

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Wood) on Tuesday night gave notice of a bill in the Legislative Assembly to amend the Fire Brigades Act. It is understood that the object of the bill is to…

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Telegrams. Fire in Clarence-street. Girl Seriously Injured. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 4

A fire broke out during the-forenoon in a five-storeyed building in Clarence-street. partly occupied by Messrs. D. Mitchell and Company, wholesale grocers. It. appears…

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Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1910 · page 4

On Sunday a few minutes before midnight the fire bell was heard to ring continuously, and the glare of a fire behind a shed in the girls' department of the District School could be seen…

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