Solid Petrol Fire Risk Eliminated Revolutionary Discovery
After 10 years' research, Dr. Adolph Prussin, a New York chemist, is reported to have perfected a process for solidifying petrol. For many years chemists and…
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Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 40
Brisbane Show Nearly Disastrous Start Exhibit on Fire Brisbane
Glorious weather prevailed to-day for the opening of the Brisbane Exhibition. The show very nearly started disastrously. A spark from a magnesium flare…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Destroys Berlin Radio Exhibition Flames Trapped Party in a Tower Berlin
A disastrous fire, which broke out at 8.30 to-night in one of the great wooden buildings housing the German radio exhibition, spread rapidly to other halls, destroying everything within an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Peril Settlers Trapped St. John (N.b.)
The settlement of Charnesey, with 25 houses, was wiped out by forest fire to-day, and nine buildings were razed at Belledune…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire-fighters Dash Through Flames Blaze in Flat Elderly Woman Burned Firemen in Peril Sydney
After a number of residents had vainly tried to break through a ring of flames to rescue an elderly woman who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For the Scout Indoor Council Fire
The indoor council fire has been found an attractive feature of the indoor troop meeting. With its songs, its stories, its little, talk by the Scoutmaster on some…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Arson Verdict Cottage Fire at Epping SYDNEY
A finding that the premises had been wilfully sot alight by some person or persons unknown was returned by the Parramatte District Coroner (Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Village Fight in Bosnia Police Fire on Assailants Belgrade
The crash of an aeroplane led to a flight between Moderns and Orthodox Serbs in the Bosnian village of Rogatica…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Berlin Fire Radio Exhibition Ruined Diners Trapped in Tower Berlin, August 19
A disastrous fire broke out at 8.30 p.m. in one of the great wooden buildings that were housing the Berlin Radio Exhibition. Rapidly it spread to two other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Victims of Berlin Fire Charred Body in the Debris Berlin
A charred body was found to-day tn the ruins of the Berlin Radio Exhibition and a patient died in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Knows Cigar From a Bushfire the Quest of a Man From Cuba a Breezy Visitor Melbourne
From Perth to Adelaide to Melbourne stretches a trail of half-smoked, abandoned cigars. They trace the route of Mr. Walter E. Dickinson, of Havans…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires Affect Mining
In addition to destroying a large quantity of grass, bush fires are handicapping mining activities in the district, as was evidenced by the application of P. J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Residents Alarmed Bush Fires Near Gosford Serious Water Shortage Gosford
Bush fires have alarmed residents of Erina Shire. During the past few nights there have been eight fires at numerous centres, but the flames were confined to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Berlin Fire Deaths
Berlin, August 20.—A charred body has been found in the ruins of the Berlin Radio Exhibition pavilions. One patient died in hospital. Three of the seven…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Brigades' Officers
At the annual meeting of the Newcastle and District Volunteer Fire Brigades' Association, held at New Lambton fire station on Tuesday night, the following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SHOPS at a GLANCE Modern Fire Appliances
Tho Electric Shop, Watt-street, opposite St. Phillp's Church, and at Hunter-street and Wheeler Place, is displaying a big variety of modern…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Huge Forest Fire Canadian Village Destroyed 2000 Men Fight Flames
A settlement at Charnesey of 25 houses was wiped out by a forest fire, and nine buildings were, razed to the ground, at Belledune. Some 2000 men are fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Maliciously Lit" Explosion Follows Fire Inquiry Held at Forbes Forbes
The opinion that an explosion had been caused by benzino vapour ignited by a naked light was given Constable Crosbie at Forbes to-day, when an inquiry was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Music Professor Fought Fire
But for the imprompt fire-fighting skill of the Ormond Professor of Music at Melbourne University (Professor Bernard (Helaze), the whole of the scores and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fell Into Fire Pensioner Fatally Burned WYALONG
Badly burned when he fell into a fire at his camp at Weethalle, near Cootamundra, last night, Frederick Simkin, 67, an old age pensioner, died in the…
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