Mother Set Fire to Her Baby
LAPORTE (Pennsylvania), Thursday.—Twenty six-year-old Mrs. Margaret Miller, a farmer's wife, confessed that 30 minutes…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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N.Z. Hostel Fire; Four Dead
WELLINGTON, Sunday.—Four young women were burned to death and two other women and one man ware injured in a fire which totally…
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Firemen dousing a smouldering eiderdown at a fire which destroyed about £100 worth of bedding yesterday morning at Cox Bros' Hunter-street store. An electrical short-circuit was blamed for the outbreak, which was quickly controlled…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton Fire Brigades Were called to a small fire in the manchester department of Cox Bros, Hunter-street, yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire which broke out in a stack of 1000 tons of waste paper at the Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd., McAuley-street,…
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The proprietor, Howard Wright, was badly burned and his premises destroyed when a fire gutted the Valet Dry Cleaning Service…
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Much of Newcastle's smoke nuisance came from household fires, the Chairman of the Greater Newcastle Health Committee (Ald. Purdue) said last…
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The proprietor of the Valet Dry. Cleaning Service (Mr. Edwin Wright) was severely burned in an attempt to extinguish a fire which destroyed his factory in Beaumont-street, Hamilton, yesterday afternoon…
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The small fire at Cox Bros., in Newcastle, on Monday was not caused an electrical short circuit, the Greater Newcastle Electrical…
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A fire in a chimney at No. 4 Campbell-street, Wallsend was under control within five minutes of the call being received at Wallsend fire…
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Messrs. Watts, Edge and Griffith of the Board of Fire Commissioners attended a meeting of residents of Miller's Forest to consider the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire in the basement of the Plaza Theatre. George-street, was controlled to-night without patrons knowing that…
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With her wedding less than three weeks away, youthful brunette Ellen Reibelt was in despair last Wednesday when she heard that her wedding gown and bridesmaid's frock had been burned the previous afternoon…
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A small two-roomed weatherboard welling, occupied by Mr. R. Jackson near Caledonia station, was destroyed by fire late on Thursday…
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NEW YORK, Friday—Three strong men watched little Mrs Sara Foster, of Algona (Iowa) lug her kitchen stove into the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.âThe top floor of a two-storied building in Mary-street. Surry Hills, was severely damaged by fire to-night…
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[?].N.R.R.A. officials working in China often round themselves being [?] on by the Chinese National Army from one side of a…
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A cottage owned and occupied by Mr. F. C. Lanaker, of Bays water road, Rathmines, was destroyed and the contents were practically…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A section of the congested area near the Municipal Markets was endangered by fire to-night, when an outbreak occurred in…
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LONDON, July 14. A.A.P.—The files and explosions that devastated the Texas City (U.S.A.) waterfront on April 16, will cost the London…
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