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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1888

6 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

The Fire Horses of New York

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 July 1888 · page 3

The training school for the horses of the New York Fire Department at Harlem is, says the "Iron," a unique…

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A Remarkable Exhibition of St. Elmo's Fire

Macleay Argus · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 8

"A remarkable exhibitions of St. Elmo's fire," was witnessed by the writer on the summit of the Sonnblick mountain in Austria, about 10 000 feet above sea level…

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Heaping Coals of Fire

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning Advertiser · Monday 1 October 1888 · page 2

An incident has come to light which shows what sort of persons the mining people of Newcastle in general, and those of the Glebe in…

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POETRY. The Fire Fly and the Thunderstorm

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 2

I sat and watched the walls of night With cracks of sudden lightning glow, And listened, while with clumsy might, The thunder wallowed to an fro…

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The Globe Trotter a Yucatan Bull-Fight. Poor Beasts Cruelly Tortured with Fire and Spear-Thrusts

Macleay Argus · Saturday 17 November 1888 · page 2

Bull-fights have been so many times described that I will spare the reader the details of this battle, writes a Mexican correspondent. Suffice it to say it was as cowardly…

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Destruction of the "Evening News" Office by Fire

Macleay Argus · Saturday 1 December 1888 · page 3

A most disastrous fire occurred on Saturday night last, the 24th ult., by which one of the finest buildings in Sydney,…

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