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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1873

6 stories in New England's papers

Disastrous Flood at Inverell. Terrific Fall of Rain. Immense Destruction of Property

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1873 · page 2

IT is our melancholy duty to record this week one of the saddest visitations by which a community can be afflicted; and it is with feelings of the deepest sympathy…

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INVERELL. (Abridged from, the Courier,) the Late Flood

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1873 · page 6

THE first question which arose to the lips of many residents anywhere near the post office or the Commercial Bank was, " What has become of the Chinamen?"…

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The Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1873 · page 3

THE ' Herald' of 27th ult. says:— The reports we have received from the country districts show that the floods have been disastrous. A very large amount of…

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The Story of the Deluge in Ninevite Clay

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 8

GREAT interest was excited beyond religious circles by the announcement that an account of the great Deluge had been discovered in cuneiform characters on…

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The Yeoman. O'neill's Flood-proof Dam, Neae Cannonbar

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 20 September 1873 · page 8

A CORRESPONDENT of the 'Dubbo Dispatch writes:— Hearing so much of this structure, and feeling a particular interest in any really good system for storing water, I had made up my mind to see for myself,…

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Destructive Thunderstorm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 7

MANCHESTER was visited by a violent thunderstorm on August 9. Some extraordinary freaks of the lightning are related. A box of steel, which had…

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