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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1926

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Many Deaths Japan's Rushing Floods TOKIO

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 August 1926 · page 1

A fresh tragedy is reported from the Akita Prefecture, where recently much loss of life and damage to property were caused by a flood…

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District News Wallsend. Storm Water Channel Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 August 1926 · page 5

With favourable weather conditions, satisfactory headway has been made in the work of repairing the main stormwater channel, beneath and between the…

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Serious Danube Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 August 1926 · page 5

A message from Bucharest states that extensive floods have occurred owing to the overflowing of the Danube in the Galatz and Transylvanian districts…

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RAINING! Thunderstorms Predicted LONDON, Tuesday. 1.20 a.m

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 August 1926 · page 1

It has been raining steadily since midnight. It is officially forecast that there will be local…

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Flood Mitigation Conference at Maitland

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 August 1926 · page 7

No finality was reached by the conference of councils called by Mr. O'Hearn, M.L.A., which met at West Maitland to-day to consider the…

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Flood Mitigation Conference at Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 8

A conference to consider the question of flood mitigation was held at the Town Hall, West Maitland, yesterday. Alderman J. H. F. Waller, Mayor of West…

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Heavy Storm Early Morning Thunder

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 August 1926 · page 8

Many residents of Newcastle were awakened shortly after 3 a.m. to-day by extraordinary heavy peals of thunder, accompanied by heavy rain…

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The Mexican Flood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1926 · page 12

A dispatch to the New York "Herald" described a scene of disaster as the result of the flooding of the Santiago River, near Leon Guanajuato, Mexico,…

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The Johnstown Flood At Cessnock Strand

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 August 1926 · page 7

Mr. S. Coroneo, proprietor of the Strand Theatre, Cessnock, has secured Fox's photo-drama, "The Johnstown Flood," which will be screened at the…

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Adelaide Races Off Heavy Rain ADELAIDE

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 2

Owing to heavy rain the Adelaide Racing Club's Grand National Steeplechase meeting has been postponed until next Tuesday…

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"Birthplace of Storms."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 15

"The birthplace of storms"—that vast frozen sheet covering Greenland's icy mountains—is the ultimate goal of an expedition of adventurers that is being…

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McGALE Beats Blampain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 August 1926 · page 8

The contest between Frisco M'Gale (America) and Fernand Blampain (France), at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night was a dreary affair, and the…

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Storms in England London Railways Flooded

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 1

Thunderstorms in London and elsewhere produced more rain early this morning then in the whole of August. Two tram cars and a dozen houses…

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Speedway Control Storm in Tea-cup Promoters' Case Difference on Two Points

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 7

"The Speedway promoters do not wish to interfere with the Riders' Association. It has been stated by the association officials that the…

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Many Drowned Great Mexican Floods

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 6

NOGALES (U.S.A.), Wednesday. Fifty persons are known to have been drowned in floods in the Nayarit and Jalisco States of Mexico…

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Many Killed Landslide Wrecks Train Spanish Floods London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 1

A landslide at Tortosa, in Spain, due to torrential rain, crashed into a train, completely wrecking it. Seventeen people were killed…

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Storm in London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 7

A brief, but violent, thunderstorm broke over London yesterday morning, and caused considerable damage, Lightning struck buildings and large areas…

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Storm Damage in the United States Great Loss Occasioned (Australian Press Association.) New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 4

It is reported from Chicago that Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana have began taking stock of the heavy losses from the floods and windstorms…

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Storms in France London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1926 · page 5

It is reported from Paris that floods following heavy storms in Southern Francs, have dons, enormous damage Near Montepellier vines have been…

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Economic Storms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1926 · page 11

The development of systematic forecasting of economic conditions was described by Professor A. L. Bowley, Professor of Statistics, in London University, at a…

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