Tragic New Year in U.S. Train Smash in Blinding Snow Storm
Singleton Argus · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 1
At least 12, and possibly 16, holiday passengers were killed and many injured when a train rammed the rear of another near Otterville, Missouri, yesterday. Trains were two sections of the Missouri Pacific Lines…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 6
On Wednesday a wave about 12ft. high struck Manly beach, drenching hundreds of people on the sand…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day’s Leader The Level of Taxation Flood Warning At Tamworth
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sat.—More than three inches of rain at Tamworth since Thursday night has put a long stretch of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Off Queensland
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 3
BRISBANE, Wed. — A cyclone has been located off Thursday Island, moving south-east. It Is the first cyclone of the…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 2
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Thursday Island was cut off from all communication when a cyclone moved in from Torres Strait over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia Plans For 1950 War Steel Being Flooded In
Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 4
Russia plans to be ready for war by 1950, according to information gathered by Scripps-Howards' Foreign…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY, Mon.—The Weather Bureau to-day issued a flood warning for the South Coast where falls ranging from one to…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1
TOWNSVILLE, Monday.— Tully, which received 30 inches of rain from Friday night to noon yesterday, is isolated, and all rail and road traffic between Cardwell and Innisfail has ceased…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1
NSW Forecast: Scattered showers and thunderstorms in the north-eastern and central districts, more rain on the south…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 3
Continued torrential rain has blocked roads and upset rail schedules in North Queensland…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Thousands of pounds worth of damage was done last night when terrific storms, accompanied by heavy hail, lashed a number of country towns. At Coonamble the wind unroofed…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. reports:—Wet conditions continue throughout the State and it is very many years…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2
Thousands of pounds worth of damage was done last night when terrific storms, accompanied by heavy hail, lashed a number of country towns…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2
GLOUCESTER: At the recent meeting of the Pastures Protection Board, the stock inspector (Mr. V. Freeman) reported that, as a result…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 4
BRISBANE, wed—When a storm swept Sandgate. near Brisbane, yesterday a nurse and three children were Injured. Trees were uprooted…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 1
LONDON, January 14.—Floods in Derbyshire, the worst reported 70 years, and in Yorkshire, Mid-Wales and Herefordshire yesterday stopped trains, inundated roads and. invaded, houses…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 3
The Weather Bureau this after, noon issued a flood warning for the South Coast. Many places have had more than…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 2
Queensland weather expert. Air. Inigo Jones. believes that the present weather cycle will continue until August, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Exposed to Heavy Rain
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 2
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mrs. Josephine Butcher 49 lay all day in her night attire, exposed to heavy rain, after she had fallen 20 feet from a…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1
Queensland weatlxer expert, Mr. Inigo Jones, believes that the present weather cycle will continue until August, with…
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