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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1912

64 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 4

Blaze on South Coast. Post Office and Shop Destroyed. Money and Books Saved. Woonona

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 2

About 11 o'clock last night, when most of the family had retired, Mr. Campbell, hairdresser, of Thirroul, discovered that his shop…

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Fire in a Sukly

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1912 · page 3

On Tuesday night last, about 830, Mr. Wal. Swan drove his turnout -- two horses and a sulky -- into the yard of the Commercial Hotel, and left them…

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Fire!

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 December 1912 · page 2

ON Saturday night last, or rather in the early morning of Sunday, the pile of wood to the Courthouse Hotel yard was found to be alight. (Mr. M. Irwin, who resides near at…

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Big City Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 December 1912 · page 2

On Friday night last the fine premises occupied by Harrington's Limited, photographic merchants, in George-street, Sydney, were reduced to a heap of ruins, and the…

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