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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1914

9 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers

To Keep a Fire In

The Picton Post · Wednesday 21 January 1914 · page 3

If you want to keep a fire in at very little expense try this plan. Steep old newspapers in water, squeeze, and roll up into hard balls. Let the fire…

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Bush Fires

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 6

Several bush fires occurred during the past week. The fist fice was at Meers. Baxter Bros., of Mahon, where a grass paddock, which was…

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Bargo Church Fire. To the Editor of the Picton Post

The Picton Post · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 4

Sir.—In your issue of to-day I see it is started that the building burnt at Bargo was a church belonging to the church of England. this is an…

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Pilgrims 'Storm Ship. Light Fires on Steamer's Deck

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 29 April 1914 · page 2

Remarkable scenes on a British vessel were described at Bristol when, at the instance of the Board of Trade, Captain George Arthur, master of the steamship Kith, was charged…

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Pilgrims Storm Ship. Light Fires on Steamer's Deck

The Campbelltown Herald · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 4

Remarkable scenes on a British vessel were described at Bristrol when, at the instance of the Board of Trade, Captain George Arthur, master of the steamship Nith, was charged…

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The Great Wharf Fire

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 17 June 1914 · page 1

Does anyone, thinking of the great waterside fire, imagine that the Government ought to have provided sufficient fire floats to protect the…

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A Novel Fire Extinguisher

The Picton Post · Wednesday 17 June 1914 · page 7

Ammonia bombs as a means to extinguish forest fires are being tested in some of the national forests of America. In the case of bush fires…

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

The Picton Post · Wednesday 8 July 1914 · page 5

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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A Fire Extinguisher

Camden News · Thursday 30 July 1914 · page 10

On Monday afternoon last, on the paddocks of Mr. C. a. Thompson, Camden, a demonstration was made how to extinguish a fire, at[?] at once, or at least as soon as the seat…

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