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Fires & bushfires, 1921

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Golf. Fire Wood and East. Arrive in England. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 4

Messrs. J. H. Kirkwood and V. East, the Australian golfers, arrived by the Aquitania. They are in excellent health, and intend to commence practice…

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Blaze Last Night Stored Furniture Burned Sydney, Thursday, 11 p.m

The Daily Express · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 2

Camperdown was tho scene of a disastrous fire which broke out in LaW’s boot factory to night. The building consisted of two…

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Another Big Fire Box Factory Des Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 2

The Newtown Box Com were destroyed by [?] morning, the damage [?] at £20,000…

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Early Morning Fire. Factory Partly Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 3

Smith's box making factory at Newtown was partly destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage is estimated at £2000, but only about one-third of…

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Forest Lodge Fire. Coroner's Fruitless Inquiry. Insurance Companies' Losses. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 3

The Coroner to-day held an inquiry into the circumstances of the fire at Messrs. Carrington and Company's confectionery factory at Forest Lodge on…

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Burglars' Bungle Fire the Mail Bags. Chased by a Bobby. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 1

Burglars broke into the post office at Neutral Bay this morning, and attempted to blow open the safe. They only succeeded in starting a fire, and…

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Another Sydney Fire. Two-storied Building Ablaze. Considerable Damage Estimated. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 2

A fire broke out in a two-storied building in George-street West to-night and caused considerable excitement. The origin of the fire was on the ground…

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Safe Blowers. Attack on Neutral Bay Post Office. Mails Destroyed by Fire. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 6

Burglars broke into the post office at Neutral Bay this morning and attempted to blow open the safe. However they only succeeded in starting a fire and left…

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Fire at Coolamon

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 April 1921 · page 2

An outbreak of fire occurred early on Sunday morning at Coolamon, a four-roomed cottage occupied by Mr. Frank Stranger being totally destroyed…

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Fatal Fire. Pimentel Again Remanded. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 April 1921 · page 3

Walter Pimentel managing director or the Federated Feature Films, Ltd., was again remanded at the Melbourne City Court on a charge of feloniously and…

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Mysterious Fires. at Victorian High Schools. Cause of Outbreaks Unknown. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 April 1921 · page 4

About a month ago the high school at Northcote, Victoria, was destroyed by fire, but the cause of the outbreak is still unknown…

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Fire

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 2

An alarm of fire was raised in Tumut on Monday afternoon by the vigorous clanging of the bell at the Fire Station, and a stampede was made…

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Another Sydney Fire Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 2

A fire which assumed fairly large proportions broke don't in a brick building of four floors in Mountain Street, nears Broadway to-nigh…

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Fire in Sydney. Three Storied Building Ablaze. Two Floors Cutted. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 4

A building of three storeys, off George-street west, occurred by the Singer Sewing Machine Company, W. Martin and Company, has…

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A Melbourne Fire Melbourne

The Daily Express · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 2

A fire broke cut at 10 o'clock on Saturday night on the premises of Edwards and Co., tea merchants, in Flinders Street. The building was…

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Fire in Melbourne. Large Building Ablale. Only Slightly Damaged. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 2

The Apollo Chambers, situated in Flinders-lane, between Queen and Elizabeth-streets, one of the largest buildings in the lane, occupied by…

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Japanese Freighter. Destroyed by Fire. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 2

A Shanghai freighter Tokuyo Maru was destroyed by fire on the Washington coast. Nine Japanese were lost…

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Fire at Cloncurry. Several Thousand Pounds Damage. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

A fire which occurred at Clonearry Queensland, this morning destroyed an hotel and a number of business premises. The damage is estimated at…

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Launch on Fire. Alleged Blackmail of Owner. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 2

Two men Stanley Williams and Thomas childs were placed on trial at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day with having with menace demanded of Percy…

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Fire at Sea Japanese Steamer Lost Some Crew Missing. Seattle, May 3

The Daily Express · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 1

The Japanese steamer Tokuyo Maru caught are and capsized and sank off the Columbia River. One of the crew is dead and eight are missing. Seventy…

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