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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

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Sensational Cyclone. Country Town Devastated. a Swath of Destruction. Flying Roofs and Uprooted Trees

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 6

A cyclone storm, appalling in its suddenness, and resulting in an enormous amount of damage, passed over [?] about 5.30 on Tuesday evening…

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London. Thursday. Floods in England

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 5

The floods in England are receding. The railway traffic ia being gradually resumed. Eighty bridges have been…

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Nearing an Industrial Cyclone

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 5

The President of the Victorian Employees' Federation declares that Australia is nearing the edge of an industrial cyclone which must…

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An Industrial Cyclone. Victorian Warning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Victorian Employer's Federation was held in Melbourne Tuesday. The president (Mr. R. O. Blackwood), in the course of his annual address,…

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Tuesday's Gale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 2

THE westerly gale on Tuesday is generally reckoned to have been the most violent of any that has been ever experienced in the Braidwood district. Galvanised iron roofs…

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Storm-Swept. Disastrous Hurricane

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 6

SAINT JOHN'S (Newfoundland).—Tuesday Evening.—A fierce hurricane, which swept along the coast of Labrador, left death and disaster in its train…

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Saturday's Wind Storm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 2

THE gale on Saturday last, both during the day and at night, exceeded in violence anything that has perhaps ever been experienced in the Braidwood district. The previous…

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Money in Thunderstorms

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 October 1912 · page 3

The thunder shower does incomparably more good than is possible in the case of ordinary rain. For not only does it soften the hardened soil…

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Police Court. Monday, October 14, 1912. (Before Messrs. J. Gale and W. O. Russell, J's P.) a Dear Spree. Drunk

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 October 1912 · page 3

GEORGE McINTYRE, a young man, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Monaro-street on the 12th October. Mounted-constable Wilson stated…

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The Storm in Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 November 1912 · page 2

A REMARKABLE storm of hail and rain broke over the city at midday on Saturday. A tramway employee named Thomas Parkes was struck by lighting…

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The Cause of the Souring of Milk in Thunderstorms

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 December 1912 · page 4

Everybody is familiar with the fact that milk is more apt to turn sour in stormy weather than at other times. The cause of this has been a matter…

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