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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1888

2 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

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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Dust Storms

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 2

Showers of gayish and reddish dust off the African coast and over southern Europs have been known from Homer's time. A "blood-rain" in 1775 covered [?]00 square…

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