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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

62 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Scheme to Mitigate Floods

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 July 1900 · page 2

At a meeting of the Richmond council on Wednesday night Alderman Campbell moved—“ That this council invite the councils of Liverpool, Campbelltown, Camden,…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 July 1900 · page 2

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth you will remember how much it looked like a little ship of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 August 1900 · page 2

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out, or a tooth you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 August 1900 · page 2

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth you will remember how much it looked like a little ship of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 2

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a to[?]th you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 2

If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a [?] you will remember how much it looked like a little ship of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing…

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Police Court. Monday, August 27. Before Mr. John Gale, J.P. Alleged Dog-stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 2

John Johnson was presented on a charge of suspected dog-stealing. Sergeant Willis deposed, that he accosted the accused in Manaro, street on Saturday…

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The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 6

As a general rule, avoid sheltering, under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the…

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The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1900 · page 4

As a general rule, avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the…

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Police Court. Friday, September 7. (Before Messrs. J. Gale and W. Pike, Js.P.) Unsound Mind Case

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 September 1900 · page 2

Joseph Maloney was charged with being of unsound mind. He is a stranger and a tramp. Sergeant Willis deposed to receiving information about a man running along the…

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Police Court. Friday, September 7. (Before Messrs. J. Gale and W. Pike, Js.P.) Unsound Mind Case

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 September 1900 · page 2

Joseph Maloney was charged with being of unsound mind. He is a stranger and a tramp. Sergeant Willis deposed to receiving information about a man running along the…

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Local News. Police Court. Wednesday, September 19Th (Before Mr. J. McKensey, P. M., and Messrs. Gale and Whitehead, Js.P.) Settled Out of Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 September 1900 · page 2

An case of articles of the peace or threatening language, Harris v. Dyball -- on being called, was announced by the attorneys for the parties to have…

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Police Court. Wednesday, 19Th Sept. (Before the P.M. and Messrs. Gale and Whitehead, Js'P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 2

For using obscene language outside a dance a stranger was fined 30s. A NOTE CASE. Edward Oldfield was charged with…

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Cyclone and Flood at Mafeking

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 4

Mafeking, for which Major-General Baden-Powell fought so well, has suffered from the attacks of a more powerful enemy than the Boers. The Diamond Fields Advertiser…

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Blissful Moments. Sunshine and Storm

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 1

They were cycling down in Surrey, And they slowly jogged along; She was clearly in a hurry And he hummed a little song…

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Monday's Storm at Cootamundra

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 3

WAS one of the severest ever known. An observer states that six miles north-west of Cootumundra the hail was extremely large, cutting pieces of flesh out of the cattle…

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Police Court. Wednesday, December 5Th. Before Messrs. J. J. Wright, J. Gale, N. M. Lazarus, and Wm. Pike, J's.P. DRUNK

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 2

ARCHIBALD MARSHALL who had been arrested on the previous night whilst drunk and incapable, pleaded guilty to the charge, and paid a fine of 26 to escape the…

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The Arrawatta in a Gale

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 December 1900 · page 3

During her passage from Melbourne the steamer Arrawatta encountered terrific weather and lost three valuable race-horses…

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Police Court. Saturday, December 15Th. (Before Messrs. J. Gale and T. Whitehead, J's.P. Suspicion of Unsound Mind

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 December 1900 · page 2

AN unfortunate single woman was brought in custody charged on suspicion of being of unsound mind. The defendant, who seemed very haggard…

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Police Court. Saturday, December 15. (Before Messrs Gale and Whitehead, JsP.) Case of Eccentricity

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 December 1900 · page 2

A middle-aged woman was charged with being of unsound mind. Constable McDonagh deposed: From information received I went down to the river…

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