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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1877

6 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

A River on Fire

Northern Star · Saturday 10 March 1877 · page 3

IT is said that a singular phenomenon can now be seen in Clarion, Comity Pa., in a small stream known as the Catfish. For a long time the inhabitants of that locality…

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The Poet. By the Fire-side

Northern Star · Saturday 28 April 1877 · page 1

Hoarded snugly is the harvest Close within the ample atore And the Farmer, by the fire-side, Sums his earnings o'er and o'er…

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Love Tried by Fire. An Incident of Ashtabula—Teri seconda of Doubt, an age of agony

Northern Star · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

A special despatch says: If every individual who went down with the illfated railroad train at Ashtabula, and lived through the experience, were to…

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Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society

Northern Star · Saturday 4 August 1877 · page 3

THE following Report was presented to the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, held in the Old Temperance Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney, on Thursday, 19th July…

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Great Fire at St. John's

Northern Star · Saturday 18 August 1877 · page 3

THE greater part of this town has been destroyed by a conflagration, which broke out at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at York Point. The fire, being fanned by a strong north-westerly wind…

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Fire Raisers

Northern Star · Saturday 22 September 1877 · page 4

EVERY serious conflagration (says an American jouruul) develops the fact that a dlass of men exists in our midst, before whose exploits the deeds of the burglar and the safe-cracker…

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