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Fires & bushfires, 1921

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The Fire Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 4

Alderman W. Cracknell, of West Maitland, is a candidate for the position of country municipalities' representative on the Board of Fire…

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Tragic Fire. Death of Rebecca Maud Fair. Coroner's Praise of Helpels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 7

Further evidence with regard to the tragic fire at south Maitland on November 20 last, as a result of which Rebecca Maud Fair was fatally…

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Fire Brigades Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 4

Regulations have been gazetted for the election by the councils of the municipalities and shires enumerated in the schedule to the Fire Brigades…

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Big Fire Averted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 5

Had not two eivilhans promptly given an alarm, an outbreak of fire on the premises of Wallis Bros, Ltd. timber merchants at Pyrmont might have…

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Fire at Taree. Taree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 7

At 3 a.m. this morning a fire broke out in Mrs. J.C[?]'s fruit and condialshop. which is to Belmore Hall property in Pultney-street…

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Fire at Taree. Taree

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 5

At 3 a.m. this morning a fire broke out in Mrs. J. Clunn's fruit and cordial shop which is contiguous to Belnore Hall property in Pultney-street…

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Edinburgh Sensation. Hospital on Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 5

Exciting scenes occurred in Edinburgh at a maternity hospital, situated in the fourth and fifth floors of a building in ancient High-street, which…

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Tragic Fire. Death of Rebecca Maud Fait. Magisterial Inquiry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 3

An inquiry touching the tragic death of Rebecca Maud Fair, the victim of a disastrous fire at South Maitland on November 20 last, when her husband,…

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Valiant Rebels. Fire on a Woman. London, Jan. 10

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 2

A message from Dublin reports that a motor car containing two officers and the wife of another officer, was fired on when approaching Charlemont…

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Dungog Municipal Fire Brigade

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 2

A well attended meeting of members and subscribers to the above was held on Monday, 11th inst., in Memorial hall when a considerable…

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Sauce Factory. Badly Damaged by Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 6

Loggo's tomato sauce factory in Queen-street, Brisbane, was discovered to be on fire half-past one o'clock on Monday morning…

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Wandsworth Outrage. Sinn Feiners Responsible. Terrific Fire Plot Foiled. LONDON, Jan. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 5

Scotland Yard confirms the rumor that Sinn Feiners were responsible for the Wandsworth, outrage. The detectives States that three men who…

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Huge Fire Plot Fails Two Million Gallons Oil Threatened. Sinn Feiners Suspected

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 3

London, Sunday.—Three constables frustrated a carefully planned attempt to set fire to the Vacuum Oil Company's depot, at Wandsworth, in which were…

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Huge American Blaze. Vancouver. January 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1921 · page 5

A message from Worcester Massachusetts reports a serious fire threatening the entire business section. The damage to date totals £500.000…

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Cottage Destroyed by Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 2

About 8 o'clock on Thursday morning the fire bell pealed an alarm. The scene of the conflagation was Fourth Street, South Cessnock, where a 4-roomed…

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Liverpool Outrage. Fifteen Incendiary Fires. Docks Warehouses and Timber Yards

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 2

The city has passed though a [?] of suspected sinn Fein burning of c[?] warehouse and timber yards and revolver attacks on policemen [?]wrote…

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Big Fire at Temora

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 January 1921 · page 2

Gust's cabinet-making establishement at Temora was destroyed by fire. The whole block narrowly escaped a similar fate…

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Fires at a Dentist's Mysterious Outbreaks

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 1

The City Coroner held an inquest into a series of fires at the residence of Norman Moore, dentist, Annandale, on Christmas Eve…

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Fire at Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 4

Shortly after there o'clock yesterday afternoon the fire brigade received an cat to an outbreak in a six-room Weather board cottage, situnted on the…

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Port Pirie Fire. Smelting Plant Destroyed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 3

The calamitous fire at the Broken Hill Associated Smelters at Port [?] is an ad-absordiag topic of diseussion in Ademide m[?]…

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