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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
880 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 44
A motor-lorry and over 100,000 feet of film were destroyed in a spectacular fire in Lonsdale-street, City, this morning. The incident was marked by the courage and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"He had chain marks on his wrists," said Master Kurt Torgler, a frank-faced, manly schoolboy, when telling the Reichstag Fire Investigation Commission how…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stanley Telfer, of East Melbourne, whose eyebrows and lashes were singed and his hands burned in saving portion of 190,000 feet of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The technical development of fire-extinction falls into a few well defined epochs divided off by radical inventions developed and improved in the intermediate periods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Camp Fire Ball Committee was held yesterday, and members reported progress in the arrangements. So enthusiastic is the committee that the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Everything is in readiness for the trial at Leipzig of the men charged with having set fire to the Reichstag. The hearing will begin to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Not since the famous Dreyfus case in France many years ago, has the continent been so stirred by court proceedings, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The strange circumstances in which Clarence Harry Wiseman, 33, of Sawyer's Gully-road, Abermain, met his death, were related to the Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns),…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The "Daily Herald" says that Leopold Harris agrees to give evidence against numerous police officers, assessros, business People, and others connected with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The trial opened in the Supreme Court to-day of the five men arraigned on charges connected with the fire in the Reichstag. The accused are—Herr Ernst…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A watery summer sun streamed through the windows of the magnificent Supreme Court building, when the trial of Van der Lubbe, a Dutchman, Ernst Torgler, a German, and Tanness Dimitrova and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great preparations are being made for the Camp Fire Ball on Tuesday. On the arrival of Sir Philip Game, a Scout reception will be held around a camp fire…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An unoccupied five-roomed weather-board cottage in Sargent-street, Cessnock, the property of Mrs. J. King, was completely destroyed by fire early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Roman Catholic Cathedral at Valley Field, Quebec, valued at 600,000 dollars, and the Convent of the Sisters of Jesus and Mary, valued at 1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In two attempted robberies in the city early to-day footpads failed to obtain any reward. The victim's shouts in one case, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Roman Catholic Cathedral at Valley Field, destroyed by fire early to-day, was the sixth of such…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The five men, who are facing their trial in the Supreme Court in connection with the fire in the Reichstag, are all charged with high treason, for when the penalty…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Everyone attending the Reichstag Fire trial to-day was again closely searched in the presence of soldiers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MISS EVELYN SMITH…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dutch prisoner, van der Lubbe, one of the men charged with setting fire to the Reichstag, has ended his hunger strike…
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