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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
89 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
NEW YORK: Secret societies that turn teenage schoolgirls into nervous wrecks, and have been known to drive them to suicide, are now holding their weird, and often cruel, initiation rituals. The "hazing" season…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →NELSPRUIT South Africa).—Shortwave radio stations have been installed at key points in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY: The old 2577-ton steamer Ardross is running wild, with nobody aboard, Sn rough seas off the North Coast about 150 miles from Sydney. The Ardross broke away…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last December a Japanese syndicate negotiating through American channels offered a million dollars cash for the underwater disposal rights of Rabaul Harbor. This was disclosed today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drivers reaching Meekatharra in the Redex road trial yesterday said there were more wrecked cars between Broome and Marble Bar than on the Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Maritime Services Board was authorised at Newcastle Court yesterday to raise and remove the tug Champion,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, July 19. A.A.P.âA badly burnt body was found to-day beside the wreck of a small plane taken from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two sailors ashore, with thei[?] wives, at the Shipping Ball [?] the Newcastle City Hall last night. They are from left: The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.): Several of a party of 30 officers and men (including the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Parts of a launch were washed up on Nobbys Beach below the headland yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The single screw steamer Bendigo, built by Alexander Stephen and Sons for the P. and O. Co., was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A condemned house at the corner of Chatham and Boreas Rds., Hamilton North, had been so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →RIO DE JANIERO, Tues. (A.A.P.): An angry mob today marched on the U.S. Embassy at Belo Horizonte and wrecked it, following President Varga's suicide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before its collapse the section was attached horizontally to the top of the part of the bridge that remains standing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The last of the family who owned the old Limerick Hotel in Bolton-street, Newcastle, broke down as she watched the old building being demolished this week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE LAST WOMEN lifeboat launchers in Britain seen in action in Kent. Two of the women hauling the 16-ton boat are 68. They use rags to protect their hands from the icy, cutting steel…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Vandals wrecked the office and school equipment at Warner's Bay Public School last night. The public address system was smashed, a sewing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PAPEETE (Tahiti), Mon. (A.A.P.). — Mme. Rose Marie Ollier, former French Embassy secretary in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Sept. 21. A.A.P. —Eleven Canberra jet bombers each worth more than £200,000 were damaged at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wed. (AAP): An Australian adventurer, Bill Havers, is sailing from the Thames shortly on the first stage of a search for the gold bullion cargo of the three masted clipper General Grant. With a gold and zinc…
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