Still Rising the Seine Flood. Some Exciting Incidents
PARIS, Saturday.--The Seine is still rising, but less rapidly. The flood is expected to reach a level of 24ft. tomorrow morning, when it is believed…
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Floods & storms, 1924
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Paris Floods. Great City Dislocation. (Reuter.)
PARIS, Saturday.—The Seine is still rising but less rapidly. The floods are expected to reach a level of 24 feet to-morrow morn ing when it is believed that the maximua…
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According to the New York "Sun and Globe" 25,000 gallons of whisky were motored into the United States from one spot alone (De Wittville, Canada), in a…
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It is a popular belief that thunderstorms sour milk, a belief so widely spread that it would seem there must be some foundation for it. It is questionable, however, whether…
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PARIS, Saturday.—A maximum rise of 24 feet was registered at the Pont d'Austerlit[?] last night. The Seine is now stationary and experts anticipate an early subsidence…
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INNISFAIL, Tuesday.—A cyclone occurred in the Moresby district, eight miles from Innisfail. It took a strip of country and levelled…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A cyclone occurred in the Moresby district, eight miles from Innisfail, to-day. It took a strip of country and levelled the cane…
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LONDON, Monday.—The fall of the Seine has begun and a decrease of three inches was registered in Paris this morning, and ten inches at…
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The sporting rivalry between England and the United States, which has been so much in the public eye of recent years, seems to have encouraged another kind…
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PARIS, Monday.--The fall of the Seine has begun, and a decrease of three inches was registered in Paris this morning, and ten inches at Montereau, while…
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PARIS, Monday.—The fall of the Seine River has begun. A decrease of three inches was registered at Paris this morning, 10 inches at…
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PARIS, Wednesday.—Great storms raging in the Bay of Biscay did much damage to shipping in the French ports and rivers, where fishermen describe the storms as the…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--A remarkable blizzard swept Southern England and the worst snowstorms since 1919 were experienced. In some places snow fells for 12…
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PARIS, Wednesday.—Although the Seine is falling slowly, the outlook is not reassuring, for damper weather has returned. In the meantime the situation in Paris…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Fierce gales are being experienced on the Victorian coast and shipping has been considerably delayed. The steamer Moeraki, from New Zealand,…
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LONDON, Saturday.—It is officially estimated that the submarine L24 is lying in 30 fathoms of water II miles southward from Portland Bill…
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PARIS, Saturday.—The Atlantic gale is abating, but the Gironde overflowed with salt water and ruined wide tracts of arable land…
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In his inaugral address to the institution of Electrical Engineers, Dr. Alexander Russel gave the following description of the mechanism of a thunderstorm…
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WELLINGTON, N.Z., Tuesday.--Bush fires in the Kaikora country during the week-end menaced many farm houses, but large bands of men averted any…
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