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Fires & bushfires, 1912

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Fire Indicator for Vessels

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 June 1912 · page 4

Many cargo vessels have a pipe running from the hold to the deck. This is a fire indicator. If even a trifling fire occurs in the hold, smoke will…

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Three Men Shot Dead. Sheriff Fires on Strikers. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 2

Further fatal rioting has taken place at Perth Amboy (New Jersey), 20 miles from here. A crowd of about 1000 strikers stormed…

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West's Pictures. "The Fire of Life

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 June 1912 · page 2

West's star picture, entitled. "The Fire of Life." was included in a line programme submitted to an appreciative audience at the Albury Mechanics' last evening. This…

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A Series of Fires. Fire Among Oil and Paints. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 June 1912 · page 2

A serious fire occurred here today in a shed built of galvanised iron and wood adjoining an oil and paint warehouse. A lad named Frederick Ash,…

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Big Fire at Urana

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 2

[?] Tuesday night about 7.30, resulting in the total destruction of three business premises and three private residences. The…

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Fire at Urana. Block of Buildings Burnt. Printing Office Destroyed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 5

A serious fire occurred on Tuesday night at Urana, which threatened at one time to destroy the town. It started in Mr. Yates' store, and was first…

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Big Fire at Urana. Block of Buildings Burnt. Printing Office Destroyed. Urana

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 25

A serious fire occurred on Tuesday night at Urana, which threatened at one time to destroy the town, It started in Mr. Yates' store, and was first noticed by one…

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Boy Roasted Over Fire. "Ragging" in a School

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 June 1912 · page 4

"Ragging" in schools takes, many forms, but an incident which occurred at St. Peter's College, Adelaide, on June 14 has been followed by serious developments…

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Fire at Christmastown. Cmltern

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 June 1912 · page 4

The residence of Mr. John Best was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, about 6.30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Best were away from home, and it is…

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Fire in Canada. 1000 Persons Homeless. Quebec

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 June 1912 · page 2

A serious fire disaster has occurred at Chicoutimi, 111 miles north-east of Quebec. The conflagration destroyed 125 buildings,…

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Village Destroyed by Fire Second Time in Two Years. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 June 1912 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg has telegraphed stating that the village of Polany, near Bjoesan, has been complete by destroyed by fire. The village consisted…

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Fire

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 2

About five o'clock on Wednesday morning Mr. G. Bradbury, the driver of the Deniliquin coach, was as usual getting his team ready for…

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New York Fires. 300 Acts of Incendiarism. New York, June 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 43

A youthful foreigner, named Steutzer, who has fallen into the hands of the police, is believed by the detectives to have been at the head of the largest gang of…

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Town Held Up. Robbers Fire on Citizens. San Francisco, June 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 43

A number of armed men, who entered the town of Durant, in Okahoma, on Friday, found the road blocked by a band of citizens, who regarded the visitors with…

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Plot That Failed. Steamer Set on Fire to Secure State Papers. Vienna

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 2

In order to secure certain State papers which the Bulgarian general Ivan Sarafol was bringing from St. Petersburg, a band of Servian conspirators set fire to the…

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Snowballing a Fire

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 June 1912 · page 4

Pro[?]bly the most remarkable man-ner of extinguishing fire occurred at [?] a mining town in Pa. A[?] [?] Hundreds of men. women boys…

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Fire Brigades' Legislation

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 2

The new fire brigades scheme provides not only for the abolition of the present Fire Brigade-Board, and the creation of a fire commissioner in its…

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Fire at Tocumwal

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 4

On Wednesday morning of last week a fire occurred in a building occupied by Mess[?] Quirk B on butchers and Maires Campbell and Co.,…

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Constable's Exciting Adventure. He Fires at Escapees

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 6

Superintendent Pountney, of Albury, has received a report from Constable Osborne, giving [?] of a [?] encountter and some smart attests by she…

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New South Wales. Big Blaze Narrowly Averted. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 12 July 1912 · page 3

A fire occurred at noon to-day at the premises of Lavera, Bitmine, and Co., Erskinville. A big blaze was narrowly averted, as 5000 gallons of oil stored in the…

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