Lock Removed "In Case Of Fire"
LONDON: A landlord who took the lock off a woman tenant's door because he said he must have constant access to the room "in case of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 30
Child Suffocated In Fire Which Destroyed Shop
SINGLETON, Friday.—Diane Veronica Burke, 7 months, was suffocated in a fire in premises in George-street, at 5 a.m. to-day…
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NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.): Large sections of Bar Harbor (Maine), Atlantic playground of America's rich, and six other towns and villages were virtually wiped out today by the forest fires which have been sweeping New England States…
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A small fire in the leaking joint of a gas main on the disused part of Carrington bridge was put out by Cook's Hill firemen yesterday. The…
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. A.A.P.—The death roll in the forest fires has risen to 20 and the damage caused…
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NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.): With the death roll at 20, fire-fighters were today able to hold their line for the first time in a…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.) —Flames shot 100 feet into the air late yesterday and huge columns of smoke blotted out the sun, as 400 firemen…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—When William Smith, of Inch-street, Lithgow, an employee of Lithgow powerhouse, slipped into a water course he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baby Burned To Death In Fire At Coff's Harbor
COFF'S HARBOR: Trapped in a flaming post office-store four miles south of Coff's Harbor early today, a 10-months-old girl was burned to death before the eyes of her father and three sisters…
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WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.) .—Senator Owen Brewster (Republican, Maine) announced today he would suggest to the F.B.I. that it seek evidence of deliberate sabotage in the New England forest fires and the crash of a DC6 airliner in Bryce Canyon (Utah) last Friday…
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. A.A.P.—Senator Owen Brewster (Republican, Maine) announced that he would suggest to the Federal Bureau of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Communists Fire On Ship Convoy: 56 Killed
NANKING, Oct. 28.—Fifty-six passengers were killed and a number wounded when a merchant ship, travelling in a Chinese naval convoy up…
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LONDON, Oct. 28. A.A.P.—Flames shot, 100 feet into the air and a huge column of smoke blotted out the sun as 400 firemen fought a fire which…
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NEW YORK, Oct. 29. A.A.P.—Police at Scranton (Pennsylvania) arrested Harry Anderson, 29, of Brooklyn (New York) on a charge of…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Equipment worth many thousands of pounds was destroyed in a fire which broke out in the research and assaying plant…
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BELMONT yesterday had a foretaste of the bushfire threat which many another district is bound to experience…
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Brigades were kept busy with scrub fires yesterday. At New Lambton local firemen, with the assistance of Hamilton men, had a long fight with…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Drums of dye were hurled 200 yards to-day when explosions rocked the dye processing works of Albert Oakey Ltd.,…
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SKOWEGAN (Maine), Nov. 2. A.A.P.—A 14-year-old boy who, Sheriff Martin Gallant testified, had confessed to setting three forest fires…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2. A.A.P.— Office equipment pelted down from the 41st floor while firemen fought a blaze in the basement of a…
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