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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Violent Gale. Strikes Sydney. Sydney

The Bombala Times · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 4

A violent south-easterly gale struck Sydney at 5.30 this morning, and about 6 o'clock the wind at South Head was blowing between 60 and 70…

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Breaking the Drought. Published by Arrangement. with Floods of Liquor

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 2

More than 500,000 counterfeit prescriptions, each calling for a pint of whiskey, were filled by New York City drug stores in the…

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Deluge of Liquor. [Published by Arrangement.] Systematising New York Trade

The Bombala Times · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 2

About the only difference in the flooding of New York State with liquor before and after the repeal of the Enforcement Act by the State of the…

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Beaten and Battered. S.S Australpeak in Heavy Gales

The Bombala Times · Friday 23 November 1923 · page 5

Mr. J. W. Sutherland, of Rockton, who has a brother on board the "Australpeake," sends us the following account of a recent voyage of…

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