Fire Damages Picture Hall
Fire extensively damaged the roof, ceiling and film projector room at Morisset Memorial Hall picture theatre early…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 32
Four Die in Fire
CHICAGO, Sun. (A.A.P.) —Four people were killed and five injured early today when fire swept…
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LONDON, October 11. A.A.P.—Fire guards is have been stationed in the streets of Georgetown, capital of British Guiana. This follows a run on…
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Brigades attended bush and scrub fires in the Mount Hutton and Dudley areas yesterday. Property was not…
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CHICAGO, Oct. 12. A.A.P.—Four persons were killed and five injured when fire swept through the lodging rooms of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Board of Fire Commissioners was fined £45 in the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court…
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NEW YORK.—A stoker opened the flaps of an incinerator at a New York block of flats and saw what…
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LONDON, October 14. A.A.P.—Arsonists burnt 40 acres of sugarcane at Uilvilugt estate across the river from Georgetown just before 12 o'clock last…
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GEORGETOWN (Guiana), Wed. (A.A.P.): Arsonists burned 40 acres of sugarcane at an estate near Georgetown last night. Strong police patrols…
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LONDON, Oct. 16. A.A.P.—Between 300 and 400 miners have been cut off from their exit shaft, following a fire at…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire caused £1000 damage to the front of Croydon Park Post-office to-day…
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SYDNEY: Hampered by an acute shortage of water, 100 townspeople battled for more…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused by a fire which swept through as leather…
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TRUNDLE, Wednesday.—Damage estimated at more than £15,000 was caused by a fire which gutted three…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fire gutted a Woolworth's store in George-street, City, to-night, causing damage estimated at £150,000…
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SYDNEY: Leading C.I.B. detectives today are investigating the theory that incendiaries started the fire which completely gutted Woolworth's George-st. building last night. Insurance companies face…
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SWEET HOME (Oregon), Oct. 21. A.A.P.—Mrs. Robert Hand, 26, ran back into her burning home three times…
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LISMORE, Thursday.—Three sideshows were destroyed by a fire at Lismore Showground to-day…
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A shed of bush saplings and cornbags in bushland off Croudace-street, Lambton, was gutted by fire last night…
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