Mice Save Family From Fire
LONDON, Jan. 18. — Panic-stricken mice, scampering around the blazing top floor room of a house in Tottenham, awoke the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
309 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 16
Police Fire on Students
CALCUTTA, Jan. 20.—Eight persons were killed and 40 injured when police opened fire on students yesterday…
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NANKING, Jan. 19.—China's Executive Yuan has decided to issue a cease-fire order to the Nationalist armies and to send a delegation to negotiate peace with the Communists…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →15 Years Ago (From issues of "Argus" for period ended January 21, 1934). Fire in Walter Street
When a Are alarm was sounded for a blaze in a five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Walter Street, crowds were drawn from…
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FRANKFURT, Jan. 22.—Czech border guards on January 20 fired on American military police investigating a border incident,…
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HONG KONG, January 22 (A.A.P.-Reuter)—In a statement yesterday following the departure of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the vice-President, Lilt Sung Jen, asked for advice from the Kuomintong elder statesmen to…
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Answering a fire call on Saturday afternoon Maitland fire brigade officers quickly attended the scene at Southwell’s bakery in High-street,…
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JERUSALEM, January 24—Heavy machine gun and rifle fire broke out yesterday near the farmer Government House at Jerusalem, where…
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Damage estimated at £80,000 was caused by a fire which raged through-the two top storeys of the Burns Philp building in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A change of wind saved the town of Nimmitabel from destruction by fire early on Sunday morning…
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"We have once again been most fortunate that the weather, except for the Xmas season, has kept bush fires. to a minimum. But we cannot…
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HOBART, Tuesday.—Electrical goods and equipment, valued at about £10,000, were damaged when a fire broke out at the…
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LAKE SUCCESS (New York), January 26.—The acting Palestine mediator. Or. Ralph Bunche, has advised UNO headquarters that…
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The returning officer advised Maitland City Council that the election for members of the Board ct Commissioners, a representative…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—A man and hit wife were severely burned and four people almost overcome by smoke when a fire broke out in a commercial artist’s studio in Pacific House, George-st., to-day. Josephine, Hooker (38), a…
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The winning essays of the Police Essay Competition, 1948, on Bush Fire Prevention, have been announced. The competition, spon…
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The feature of the evening held in the Kurri Kurri Congregational Church Hall on Tuesday was an address given by Rev, [?]…
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A hayshed on a dairy farm owned by Mr. H. Clode, of Eagleton, and worked by Mr. Stan Cannon, was destroyed by fire…
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A car owned by Marjorie Joan Swan, of Kearsley-street. Aberdare was slightly damaged when It caught fire on Saturday…
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RIPON (Wisconsin), Feb. 2.—Six people are believed to have been burned to death in a fire which destroyed the 75-year-old Grand…
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