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Fires & bushfires, 1924

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Fire at Forbes. Chaff in Produce Store. Forbes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 2

Following a loud, explosion last night a large produce store containing several hundred tons of chaff burst into flames, and before the brigade gained…

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Fire Near Wyong Building Totally Destroyed Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 May 1924 · page 1

The School of Arts at Morrisset, near Wyong, to which was attached a library and picture show and billiard room was totally destroyed by a fire…

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Items of News. Destructive Fire

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 2

The School of Arts at Morrisset, to which was attached a library, picture show and billiard room, was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning…

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Disastrous Fire at Caulfield. Timber Yards Gutted. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 June 1924 · page 2

W. R. Brooks' timber yard at Caulfield was the scene of a disastrous fire, which commenced at 10.30 on Saturday night and continued burning until late…

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Fire and Explosions

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 2

A fire destroyed a blacksmiths and stores shops at the Redhead Mine, Newcastle, on Sunday night. People in the locality were disturbed by a series…

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Blazing Petrol Pumps. Serious Fire Narrowly Averted. Excitement in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 3

A match, carelessly thrown to the footpath was very nearly the cause of starting what might have been a very serious conflagration in Wagga…

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Terrible Calamities. Twenty-two Girls Die. Fire at a School. Los Angeles

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 June 1924 · page 2

Twenty-two are dead and 18 are suffering from minor burns as the result of a fire destroying the Hope Development School, at Playa-Del-Rey, for…

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No More Cinematograph Fires

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 6 June 1924 · page 4

A process has just been invented which, it is claimed, will revolutionise the moving picture business, and, what is more to the point, make…

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Airmen Crash. on Fire in Mid-air. Five Fatalities in Britain London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1924 · page 4

Two Royal Air Force machines were manoeuvring over Grantham aerodrome when they collided in mid-air. Both caught fire and crashed from a height…

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Sydney Fire. Constable's Plucky Resuce. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 June 1924 · page 1

A file broke out at Madcock's newsagents shop, Redfern, at 3 o'clock this morning and the place was gutted The flames were first noticed by two…

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Footballer's Fate. Out of the Fat Into the Fire. Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 June 1924 · page 1

At the conclusion of the football match on Saturday between South Fremantle and East Fremantle, in which the latter team was victorious,…

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Items of News. for New Fire Station

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 June 1924 · page 2

At the fortnightly inert ing of the Wagga Municipal Council to-morrow night attention will he given to the need for the election of a new fire…

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Serious Riot at Jamaica. Police Fire on Attackers. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 June 1924 · page 5

A message from Kingston, Jamaica, states that a strike by municipal laborers for an increase of pay this morning developed into a riot in which much…

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Fire at Newtown Motor Cars Destroyed London

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 June 1924 · page 1

Six month cars in the course of construction, were severally damaged early this morning when a fire broke out in Provert's Engineering Works…

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Petrol Blaze

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 2

While a motor cyclo owned by Mr. A. Fromholtz was being supplied with petrol in front of Monks' motor garage, Baylis street, last night the fumes…

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Playing with Fire. Warning by Town Engineer

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 2

Iu his report to the Wagga Municipal Council last night the municipal engineer, Mr. H. J. Chaston, stated that electricity service interruptions on…

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Wagga Fire Station. New Site Proposed. Exchange with Council

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 4

Fore some time there has been an agitation for a new fire-station. The Board of Fire Commissioners haas recently been willing to erect a new…

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Acowra Sensation. Man Fires Five Sh0ts. Injures Two People. Then Kills Himself

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 4

One man is dead, a woman was badly wounded, and another man was also wounded, though not seriously, as a result of a shooting sensation at…

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Fire Interrupts Choir Practice

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 June 1924 · page 6

A fire destroyed the wooden Sunday school next to St. Augustine's Church of England, North Brunswick, Melbourne, on Thursday night. The church…

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Mysterious Fires Eight in One Nnight. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 June 1924 · page 1

An extraordinary series of outbreaks of fires occurred at Toowoomba (Queensland) last night at 7.30 and at one o'clock this morning. There…

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