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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1914

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A Popular Fire Insurance Company. "The Liverpool, London and Globe." Figures Which Speak for Themselves

Forbes Times · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 7

The name of the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company is a familiar one to most of our readers, and in every country town of…

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4 Popular Fire Insurance Company. "The Liverpool, London and Globe." Figures Which Speak for Themselves

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 July 1914 · page 6

The name of the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company is a familiar one to most of our readers, and in every country town of…

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The "Esse" Stove. Open Fire-grate Superseded

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1914 · page 3

The "Esse" stove answers many of the difficulties of the open firegrate, with its attendant worries of ashes, smoking, draughts, and coals…

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Fire Alarms

Forbes Times · Tuesday 21 July 1914 · page 2

Mr. Broadhurst, an officer of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade Department, has this week been in Forbes in connection with the erection of four…

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Fire From Heaven

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 July 1914 · page 9

The possibility that a discharge of lightning may start a fire is recognised in every insurance policy, yet we were scarcely prepared to hear from forest authorities that more than half the forest fires are…

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Fire!

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 24 July 1914 · page 7

On Tuesday morning last, at about 1.30, a four-roomed cottage situated about a quarter of a mile from the Waddell…

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Destructive Fire

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1914 · page 2

At about 8.30 o'clock ou Saturday night, a fire started in the wooden building occupied by Mrs. Lowrie, newsagent and stationer,…

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Fire Alarms

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 July 1914 · page 2

Last week Mr Broadhurst, of Sydney, visited Forbes, and installed telephone fire alarms at different parts of the town. On North Hill,…

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Big Fire at Orange. Business Premises Gutted. Orange

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 July 1914 · page 6

Messrs Forster and Thompson's store, in Summer-street, was totally destroyed by fire at three o'clock this morning. Not even the walls are…

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Another Blaze

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 1 August 1914 · page 4

About [?] o'clock on Friday morning, residents were aroused from their slumbers by the ringing of the fire-bell, and on investigation it was…

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The War. Russia Breaks with Austria. Belgrade Bombarded and on Fire

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 1 August 1914 · page 4

Russia has broken oil diplomatic negotiations with Austria, and the war-strain has enormously increased as a consequence. German…

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Our Fire Brigades. the Matter of Administrative Expenses. Country Representative Alert

Forbes Times · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 3

Recently Mr. R, Shepherd, country representative on the Board of Fire Commissioners for New South Wales, wrote to the Forbes…

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Forbes Municipal Council. About the Fire Brigade. Request from Tom's Lagoon

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 August 1914 · page 9

The fortnightly meeting of the aldermen was held on Tuesday night. In attendance were Aldermen Patterson (Mayor), Muller, Sam, Hugo,…

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The Fire Fairy's Advice

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 7

She was a dainty wee girlie, with brown hair just matching her frock, and starry brown eyes. She threw herself down by the fire, in the…

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Wyalong's Appreciation Of W. W. Fire Brigade

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 5

The Captain of the West Wyalong Fire Brigade has received the following letter from the Wyalong Municipal Council:—…

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A Fierce Fire. Blaze in Templar Street

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1914 · page 3

Shortly after 8 o'clock last evening, a fire occurred in Templar-street, in a house occupied by Mr Herbert Neave, agent for Singer Sewing…

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Last Night's Fire

Forbes Times · Tuesday 18 August 1914 · page 2

Between eight and niue o'clock last night a fire broke out in a large weatherboard house in Templar-street occupied by Mr. Herbert…

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The War Britons Under Fire. Russian Army's Advance. London

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 August 1914 · page 4

In the battle on Sunday and Monday, the front of the allies extended from Mons, on the west, to Luxemburg, on the light. The British…

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A North Hill Fire

Forbes Times · Tuesday 1 September 1914 · page 2

Just before 10 o'clock on Sunday night last a fire broke out in a tworoomed weatherboard cottage on North Hill belonging to an old-age…

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North Hill Fire. Old Lady's Narrow Escape

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 1 September 1914 · page 3

On Sunday night, shortly after 10 o'clock, a fire broke out at North Hill, in a two-roomed weatherboard cottage occupied by Mrs Edward…

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