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Fires & bushfires, 1919

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Dance Hall Fire. Destroys Twenty-five. Montreal, Nov. 24

The Daily Express · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 1

Villeplatt, Louisana reports 25 burned to death at a Dance Hall fire…

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Fire in University. Main Building Destroyed. Loss Estimated at Eighty Thousand Sterling. VANCOUVER

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 1

A Montreal message states that the main building of the University, containing medical departments, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated…

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Fire at Baton Women and Girls Lose Their Lives. Ten Burnt to Death. Others Crushed. PARIS

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 1

The Baton "Rouge la Message" reports: Twenty five women and girls lost their lives in a fire, which destroyed the building where 300 villagers…

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Disastrous Fires. University Damaged. Montreal

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 4

The main building of the University of Montreal, containing the medical departments, has been destroyed by fire…

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Fire Alarm

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 December 1919 · page 2

Yesterday, shortly after noon, the fire bell rang, and the brigade hustled off, to find their services, happily, were not needed. A washhouse at the rear…

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Forest Fire Raging in VlCTOF[?] MELBOURNE, [?]

The Daily Express · Wednesday 3 December 1919 · page 2

A big forest fire is at [?] ing in Murra Murra fore[?] Wesl[?] Distric[?] If the [?] the Victorian Valley the [?]…

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Big City Fire. Damage, £250,000. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 December 1919 · page 1

The premises of John Keep & Sons, Ltd., ironmongers, King and Clarence streets, were gutted by fire at an early hour this morning…

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Bush Fire Fiend a Serious Outbreak

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1919 · page 2

Despite the drought there is still a good ideal of grass to burn in the western district, as the experience of this week has aused bv the reflection…

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Extensive Fire. Large Warehouse Burnt. Another Bidding Damaged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1919 · page 4

The premises of John Keep and Sons, Ltd., ironmongers, King and Clarence-streets, Sydney, were gutted by fire at an early hour this morning…

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Fire[?] a Substantial—increase. Due to Higher Wages

The Daily Express · Friday 5 December 1919 · page 3

Recent increasen in industrial wards, carecially the Board of Trade [?]Iving wage increase of 17/ per week, [?]gether with rising costs of material…

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Another Fire Luckily Soon Discovered. Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 8 December 1919 · page 4

A fire was discovered about ten last night in a building in the centre of a valuable block of buildings which is surrounded by George, Hunter, Pitt…

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Items of News. Care Against Fire

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1919 · page 2

Every year property in the form of grass and crops, stock and fencing is destroyed by fire in the country districts. By the co-operative methods…

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Will Not Sign Germany Holds Out Against Treaty. Fire at British Embassy. Noske's Defiance. the Protocol. Serious Situation. Beatty Goes to Paris. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1919 · page 2

The "Weekly Despatch's" Berlin correspondent says that the newspapers, in scare headlines, declare that Germany will not sign the protocol…

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The Banger From Fires

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 December 1919 · page 2

People who go out into the bush at the present time should be very careful about lighting fires, as neglect on their part might envelop the country…

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Fire at Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 December 1919 · page 2

At about 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday the alarm of fire was raised and a large crowd of people assembled at the scene of the conflagration, which…

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Hun Fire-bugs Outbreaks on Liners. Becoming Very Frequent. London, Dec. 1[?]

The Daily Express · Thursday 18 December 1919 · page 1

A serious fire occurred last night in the cargo of the “Boonah,” in Albert Docks, amongst which was war material and captured German…

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Disastrous Fire. Workers Entrapped. Jump for Safety. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1919 · page 2

A disastrous fire occurred on Wednesday in a block of office buildings in the centre of Newcastle. A large number of employees,…

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