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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

230 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 12

General Cable News. Benzine Fire. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1910 · page 5

The fire of benzine, which has been burning in Berlin for five days, has been extinguished…

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Submarine Under Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 December 1910 · page 3

Interesting experiments have been instituted by the British Admiralty to test the effect of gun fire on submarines under war conditions and the mines. The vessel…

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Fire in Brest Arsenal. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 December 1910 · page 5

Owing to a careless workman dropping a lighted cigarette a fire occurred which destroyed a large portion of the arsenal at Brest…

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America's Forest Fires

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 5

Australia has some drawbacks at times —drought and bush fires. But what of a forest fire in America? Here is a quotation from an oversea exchange, dated…

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Fire in a Children's Home. Child Burned to Death. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 5

A fire has occurred in the Children's Home at Springfield in Missouri. The little ones were saying their prayers, and were about to retire for…

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American Cable News. a Mine on Fire. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 5

Ten men are entombed in a burning mine belonging to the Leyden Coal Company, four miles from Denver, Escape is cut off…

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Fire Brigades' Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 December 1910 · page 6

The board of fire commissioners has written to the Tarre Shire Council with reference to their application for the exaonsion of the powers of the Fire Brigades…

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Fires in America. Warehouse Destroyed. Twenty-five Men Killed. Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred in Morris and Company's packing warehouse in Chicago last night, the promises being totally destroyed…

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Aeroplanes in War. Attack by Rifle Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 December 1910 · page 3

In "Le Journal" of October 21st there are two interesting articles with reference to the employment of aeroplanes or dirglbies in war. The first…

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Midland Fatality. Cause of the Fire. a Student's Death. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 December 1910 · page 5

The fire which occurred on the Midland express train after its collision is attributed to the explosion of a gas tank, and a high wind favoured the…

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Our Sydney Letter. Taking Our Pleasures Gladly.—again the Immigration Question.—the Jubilee of Canvassing for Population.—australia As a "Canner."—a Comparison in a Good Natured Way.—quite a Number of Scrub Fires. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 December 1910 · page 5

IT has been said that the English take their pleasures sadly. Probably the statement is a bit of a libel. All the same, as a cablegram says, Christmas…

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Fire at Compiegne. Military Barracks Burned. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 December 1910 · page 5

The barracks at Compiegne, 52 miles from Paris, have been burned. The damage done is estimated at £80,000 a large quantity of stores and…

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