Fire at Technical College
The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called out shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon to a fire in the Girls' Technical Trades School, at West…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
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Fire Board
Councillor Alf Johns, of Kurrl, profiting by his experience last year, has for the forthcoming election of members of the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Roaring Hell" Disastrous Entertainment Xmas Eve Fire Many Bodies Recovered St. Louis
America's most terrible Christmas tragedy was [?] where 200 had gathered at a Christmas Eve entertainment in a one-story schoolhouse…
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A telegram from Hobart, Oklahoma, reports that more than 30 persons were burned to death by a fire which destroyed country school during a Christmas…
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Bishopcourt, Christchurch, was almost destroyed by fire early this morning. It was an old building of two stories, and was occupied by the…
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Sixteen children, victims of the fire which destroyed a school building which was being used for a Christmas entertainment, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Bus on Fire Blaze at Cessnock Stolen Petrol
The Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call at three o'clock this morning to a motor 'bus in Comfort-avenue Cessnock, and on arrival Captain…
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Late on Sunday night a fire broke out in a private hospital for brain diseases, in Tokio, which resulted in many fatalities. Of 343 reported inmates, 108 are now…
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A fire broke out in the ship's galley of the Themistocles, lying at King George Dock, in London, on Sunday. It was overcome with minor damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ghastly Fire Asylum Destroyed 107 Dead Tikio
One hundred and seven people lost their lives in a disastrous fire which destroyed a private asylum for the insane in the Oyama section of Tokio…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Preferred Bitter Winter in North America Millions Shiver Overheating Causes 400 Fire Outbreaks in One City New York
The cold was to intense yesterday that a number of people ended their sufferings by suicide. In New York City the bitter weather caused cruel suffering, but in some of the country district the cold was Arctic in its intensity…
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Owing to the fusing of an electric motor on the sixth' floor of Grace Bros. building in Bay-street, Globe (Sydney), at about 5.45 p.m…
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That the year 1924 has been one of activity and advancement on the part of the Fire Brigades' administration of the State is clearly shown by the statement…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Getting in Early Fire Board Elections
Councillor Johns, having been nominated by Cessnock Shire Council as country representative on the board of fire commissioners, has started his campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anthems of Youth Scoots by the Camp Fire Weird War Cries Corroboree "Music"
The Boy Scouts corroboree camp at Adamstown had a time of glorious boyish jollity last night. A camp-fire concert was the attraction…
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