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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1911

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American Forest Fires. in Front of the Flames

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 8

A fore[?] in progress is one of the most majestic and awe-inspiring eights I know, I have one in mind— Rocky Mountain fire, of a few years…

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Fighting Fire with Sand: Good for Your Garage

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 9

Modern industries give liability to tire where water is not only reflective but dangerous as an extinguisher, and the use of sand is among the…

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Huge Fires. 5000 Houses Destroyed in Tokio. and 6000 Women Homeless

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

By a fire which broke out in the Yoshiwara quarter of Tokio, 5000 houses were destroyed and 6000 women rendered homeless…

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Terrible Loss of Life. Fire at a Festival

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

A fire broke out in the thatched dwelling in a village to the northward of Poona, Bombay district, where a festival was being held…

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Betrayed by Bullet-Hole. Husband Kills Wife and Child. Fires House to Hide a Murder

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

An extraordinary murder of a woman and a baby, alleged to have been committed by the woman's husband, who was infatuated with a girl, has…

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Fire Brigades Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 5

THE report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administion of the fire Brigades Board was made public last week…

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Scientific Notes. a Gun That " Fires" Cement

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 9

The cement gun is not a new weapon for the navy, but a machine for squirting concrete mortar in stucco form upon a surface of any kind. The…

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Fire in a Mine

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 6

A fire, caused by the electric cable fusing, occurred in Tinkton colliery, Derbyshire. Four hundred miners were at work, and were rescue…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Thursday Hospital Fire

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 6

Fuzakerly Hospital, at Liverpool, has been destroyed by fire. The patients were rescued…

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Mystery of a Fire. Woman's Body in a Cupboard

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 6

The town of Nancy, Prance, is much stirred by a mysterious discovery made at a fire which broke out there lately. About ten o'clock flames were seen…

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Careless Use of Fire

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 May 1911 · page 5

Frederick George White of the Dorrigo, sued John Hack for damages £196, alleged to have been caused by Hack's carelessness in firing timber…

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Big Fire in the States. Loss of Life

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 5

A fire occurred at Bangor on Mon-day which resulted in the destruction of property calculated to be worth two million dollars (£400,000)…

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Fatal Theatre Fire in Scotland

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 7

During the last act of the music hall performance at the Empire Palace Theatre Edinburgh, at which the King and Queen were to attend…

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Fire

Nambucca News · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 6

A fire broke out between 9 and 10 o'clock on Saturday night, last a Mr. P. Day's residence on the South Arm road, about two miles from…

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Town Topics. Fire at the Maria

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 4

In the forepart of last week, Mr. Woodlands and the inmates of his house on the Maria, had a narrow escape from incineration. After…

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Disastrous Fire

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 10

A fire occurred on Monday last at the Chutes Amusement Park, San Francisco. It is believed that several people who are missing have perished…

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Fire in West Kempsey

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 June 1911 · page 4

Last night, getting on to half-past eight, the tolling of bells up West turned Elbow-street people out in alarm to find a fire in swift progress…

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Fire

Nambucca News · Friday 23 June 1911 · page 4

Early on Tuesday morning a fire was discovered in a shed at the rear of Mr Frank Elias's shop in High-street, and but for the prompt…

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Another West End Fire

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 4

Early Monday morning there was an outbreak of fire at the residence of Senior Constable Grant in the police grounds, West Kempsey. Evidently…

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Fire Inquiry

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 5

AT the Court House on Monday the Hon. E. A. T. Pery held an inquiry into the recent fire at Elias Simmon's store, West Kempsey…

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