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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 19
An unprecedented radio hookup enabled 70,000,000 persons to listen-in to Governor Al. Smith's speech to-night, formally, accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency, the election for which takes places in November…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne suffered violent gales throughout last night and this morning the winds are still high. Almost every suburb has reported extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With a velocity as high as 63 miles an hour, a gale swept the city and suburbs in the early hours of this morning, uprooting trees and demolishing fences and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Present intentions are that the Southern Cross will leave on the hop apron the Tasman to New Zealand at 9 o'clock on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There was a stormy few minutes at Wallsend Council last night, when Alderman Hughes accused the council of "making fools of the ratepayers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Impressive scenes marked the transfer of the bodies of the men of the ill-fated British submarine L55, sunk in 1919 near the Soviet fortress at Kronstadt, to the British cruiser Champion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"We will not be able to get away to-day," said Kingsford Smith at 2 p.m. "The latest weather report is that there is a cyclone off Norfolk Island, and the conditions generally are very unpromising."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.P., who has been agitating for the starting of a scheme of flood mitigation for the Hunter district, has been advised by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The P. and O. Branch liner Bendigo, which arrived at Durban yesterday from Australia, reports having had an exceedingly heavy passage,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The silting up in the Hunter River, between Oakhampton and Pitnacrco, during the last twenty-five years, has raised a problem in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The publication of the novel "This Side Idolatory" has caused a storm in Great Britain. In the novel Charles Dickens is represented as a hypocrite, a philanderer, and a selfish egotist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sergeant Assoisnt has returned to Paris in the Yellow Bird plane. He declares that he had intended to fly the Atlantic, and headed across the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Gross, whicK left' Richmond at 5.30 p.m.. yesterday, landed at Wigram aerodrome, outside Christchurch, at 9.22 a.m. (7.52 Newcastle time). Though the weather conditions over the land, both in Australia and New Zealand, were perfect throughout the night, and a favorable wind enabled the journey of 1600 land miles to be covered in 14 hours 22…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A cyclonic storm' struck Nyngan during the early hours of this morning when a gale swept the district. Several houses were completely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fierce gales swept the western portion of New South Wales, and considerable damage in reported. Nyngan was one of the towns which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Towns on the fringe of the Porto Rice-Florida hurricane, as the disturbance hit the east coast of Florida, reported terrific winds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The death-roll caused by the fierce tornado that swept across Southern Florida at the week-end has now reached 139. Whole towns have been silent ever since, and it is possible that when many communications are restored, an even greater…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As a sequel to last week's hurricane Porto Rico is being swept by disease. An epidemic of influenza is causing the gravest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tropical rain-storms have flooded the devastated areas in Southern Florida, and the burial or cremation of hundreds of bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Squadron-leader Kingsford-Smith and Flight-Lleutenant Ulm arrived at the aerodrome late yesterday afternoon, after a stormy flight from…
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