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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1902

115 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 6

The Braidwood Fire Brigade

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 June 1902 · page 2

A public meeting was held at the Council Chambers on Friday evening last to consider the best means of placing the Brigade in a more efficient position. There was a good attendance. The…

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Terrible Fires

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 June 1902 · page 2

A terrible fire occurred yesterday at the St. Luke’s Sanatorium, Chicago. Ten of the inmates were Killed and thirty injured, including several who were…

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A Theatre on Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 June 1902 · page 3

This happened recently, and a panic was only averted by the presence of mind of one of the actors He was taking the part of a comic sailor. When the fire broke out, and the…

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Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 June 1902 · page 2

MEMBERS met at the fire-station rooms last Wednesday night, there being a fair attendance. Superintendent James Byrne occupied the chair. The minutes…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations. Chapter Xvi. a Strange Visitor at Weft and Warpley’s

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 June 1902 · page 1

Madge Worsley found her new life for a time even more pleasant than she had imagined would be. She was her own mistress and had a plentiful supply of…

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Through the Fire the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations, Chapter Xx. Oeoil Promises to Marry Madge

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 June 1902 · page 1

Made Worsley in spite of the luxurious ease which, she had enjoyed since she gave up-her old life had not been perfectly happy.she had a conscience,…

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Fire at Capetown

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1902 · page 2

A fire caused by the Coronation decorations at Capetown becoming alight, resulted in a whole block of buildings being destroyed with an estimated loss of £250,000…

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Through the Fire the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations Chapter Xxvii Tracked

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 July 1902 · page 1

Acting in accordance with his preconceived idea Jack [?] made it his business to call in at the hostelries resorted to by the Park-lane clothing…

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Fire

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 2

Yesterday morning between four and five o’clock a fire broke out in an old building not far Mr. T. Wisbey’s store, Mongarlowe, which very speedily reduced…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations. Chapter Xxxiii. Weaving the Net

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 1

Before Cecil left Bedford place he save careful instructions to the landlady Mrs. Jenkins, that no one except the doctor was to be allowed to see Madze…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations. Chapter Xxxvi. Hopes and Fears

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 1

When Ruth Roberts left Madge’s lodgings, her first impulse was to so straight to Jim Cranston’s home and [?] what she had just learned. But on second…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations Chapter Xxxix an Announcement in the “Pink”

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 1

Although [?] Warpley had no desire to become the husband of Miss Clara Morris the father of that immaculate young lady had every wish to see his…

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The Fire Brigade Water Supply

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1902 · page 2

When a little over two years ago Mr. H. L. Mater induced a [?] of our young townsmen to join him in the establishment of a volunteer Fire Brigade there…

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The Fire Brigade

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 August 1902 · page 2

The gang of men under the superintendence of Mr. Albert Smithy finished laying the water pipes as far as Mr. Le Maitre’s corner. The work having been carried out under Mr…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations. Chapter Xlii Jim Cranston Consults a Detective

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 August 1902 · page 1

There is no better known figure in Leeds legal circles than Tom Lowther, [?] detective and prince of good fellows. Tom’s burly [?] 100ms large…

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Celestial Flashlights. Stars That Blaze Up Suddenly and Then Die Out

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 1

The abrupt appearance of a star where none was seen before and its disappearance shortly afterwards have always been the cause of profound amazement both to the…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations. Chapter Xlv. How Madge Arranged Her Surprise

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 1

Those who had come to the wedding of Cecil Warpley in ever expected the ceremony to end in a tragedy, though, if the troth were told they were not sorry to…

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Volunteer Fire Brigade

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 2

A MEETING of the members of the above was held at the fire station on Wednesday night last. There was a good attendance. Foreman A Lazarus occupied the chair…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl’s Temptations. Chapter Xllx. Nemesis

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 1

The frenzy of passion which tempts a man to murder, usually robs the deed of much of its terrors, for at that moment when madness prompts one human…

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Fire Alarm

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 2

On Sunday morning about 1.30 a.m. many persons were disturbed in their slumbers by the quick tolling of St. Bede’s Church bell. It turned out to be a stupid hoax perpetrated…

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