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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

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11 deaths in French floods

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 February 1952 · page 5

PARIS, Tues. (AAP): Floods which have already caused 11 deaths, rose steadily in south-west France today…

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Storm following gangster killing spurs Chicago police into action

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1952 · page 7

CHICAGO, Sun.: Police, spurred by public Indignation over gangster infiltration into politics, rounded up 19 underworld characters yesterday in a hunt for the killers of a Republican…

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Flood of Nylons Expected

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1952 · page 15

SYDNEY, Wed.: Minister for Customs (Sen O’SulIivan) said today he had been advised that the British Government was…

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Avalanche, Storm Deaths

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1952 · page 6

LONDON, Tues.: Avalanches have killed 25 people in the Slovene Alps, Western Yugoslavia, in the past three days…

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47 Dead in Storm

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 February 1952 · page 10

BOSTON, Wed.: The death roll New England’s worst storm of the winter reached 47 yesterday, with more snow forecast for today…

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New Storm May Hit Broken Tanker

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 1

BOSTON, Thurs.: Two tugs had the stern half of the broken tanker Fort Mercer in low this morning, but a new…

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Heavy rain falls in Queensland drought areas

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 February 1952 · page 18

BRISBANE, Fri.: Rain was falling over most of Queensland’s drought areas tonight. More is expected during…

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Five Deaths in Big Snow Storm

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 1

BOSTON, Thurs.: The worst snow storm in possibly 50 years today left Cape Cod buried beneath snow drifts as high as 12…

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11 Dead in Snow-storm

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 18

BOSTON, Fri.: Police and highway workers struggling, through 10-foot snow-drifts in Cape Cod yesterday rescued scores of…

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Storm smashes American freighter

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK. Sun.: An American Liberty ship, in a distress signal today, said a storm had smashed in the bridge, torn away…

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Saturday's Storm Lightning Starts Grass Fire

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 9

Lightning started a grass fire on "Dudley Park" the property of Mr. Henry Jukes, on Saturday afternoon. The fire started at about 12.45…

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Culvert Floodway Not Development Work

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 8

Department of Main Roads advised it was not proposed to recommend the construction of culvert and floodway over Wallandool…

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Tankers’ hulls cracked by gale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 8

NORFOLK, (Virginia), Wed.: A gale raging off Cape Henry yesterday cracked the hulls of two tankers…

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Chance for Gale Queen at Wangaratta

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 19

In the event of Richarm not starting, Gale Queen has bright prospects of winning the St. Patrick’s Handicap at Wangaratta…

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Heavy rain last night

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 2

Intermittent showers, heavy at times, commenced to fall in Albury shortly after 10 o'clock last night…

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Storm Deaths Now 202

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 1

LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas), Sun.: New tornadoes, small but destructive, yesterday struck the south adding to the…

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Gales, torrential rain swamp south coast of N.S.W.

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Fierce gales and torrential rain caused widespread havoc on the south coast today. The Weather Bureau tonight issued flood warnings for south coast rivers…

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250 storm deaths in America

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 1

LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas), Mon.: Red Cross officials said today that the death toll from tornadoes and floods in six…

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Mass Funerals of Storm Victims

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 March 1952 · page 15

LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas), Tues.: Funeral processions wound through the rubble of tornado-blasted Arkansas towns…

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Ald. Flood Retains Labor Party Branch Presidency

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 1

At the annual meeting of the Murrumbidgee Electorate Council of the A.L.P. held at Griffith last Sunday, Aid. J. P. Flood, of…

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