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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

547 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 28

Mother City Fire. £30,000 Damages. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 4

The premises of Brandt and Co., lamp-makers, Pitt- street. were partly destroyed by are at about six 0'clock this morning. The firemen confined…

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A Blaze in the Rain

The Daily Express · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 2

A haystack burning flercely amid a torrential downpour of rain was the paradoxical night winessed on Mr. G. Mess farm at Wallacatowa on…

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Too Many Fires. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 4

Chief Fire Officer Jackson to-day had a conference with the Inspector. .General of Police and a result of the conference will be that ooser liaison…

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Motor Cycle on Fire

The Daily Express · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 2

Mr Percy Scholz of Tumbaram and his brother and a friend, had more than a joy ride last night. They had brought Mrs. Schols into…

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Fire in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 4

Al fire broke out this morning on che top floor of Rawson Chambers, Rawson Place. This floor was swept from end to end by flame…

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Fire Bugs Outbreaks in Sydney Grave Official Anxiety Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 1

The growing frequency of city fires was discussed at a conference to-day between Mr. Jackson, Chic. Officer of the Metropolitan file…

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Man Amok with Rifle Fires on Picnic Party. Four Men Wounded. Sensation Near Jingellic

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 February 1924 · page 2

From the quiet rural district of Jiugellie comes a story almost as appalling as that which had to be told only a short while ago of the murders…

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Coonamble Fire

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 4

A disastrous fire occurred at. Coonamble last week, when the office of the Coonamble "Times" and several business premises, all built of wood,…

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Fire at [?] [?] STATION [?] SYDNEY

The Daily Express · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

A fire early this morning following a terrific [?]n, totally [?] [?] power house at Windsor. It was a wooden str[?] and,…

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Playing with Fire Awful Family Tragedy Paris, Feb [?]

The Daily Express · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 1

Three boys, the eldest [?] age, watched their [?] years burn to death [?] into [?]…

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Desperado at Large Jingeluc Picnic Party Fired Upon One Dead, Three Others Wounded, One Badly Murderer, a Good Rifle Shot, Hotly Chased, Fires Frequently on Pursuers

The Daily Express · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 1

An armed posse of police has left Wagga to join in the [?] that is being conducted from Tumbarumba down to the Upper Murray…

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Fire at Molong

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

The whole of the main business block of Molong was threatened by a fire last night which destroyed W. Norris's butcher's shop and V…

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Chase After Prisoner. Constable Fires Revolver Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

There was a sensation in Quay-street, near the railway station last night when a constable fired his revolver at an escaping prisoner…

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Serious Motor Smash Capsize, Fire and Explosion. Scone

The Daily Express · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

A motor car containing five persons, driven by John Woodley, when between Scone and Mus[?]brook last night struck a culvert, capsized…

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Goulburn District Countryside Alarmed Robbery, Fires and Shooting. Goulburn

The Daily Express · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 1

The Goulburn district has been thrown into a state of terror by the activities of a man who la believed to be combining the…

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Outlawry Jingellic Murderer Still Not Captured Fires and Shooting in Goulburn District Houses and Stacks Burnt and Man Shot by a Marauder

The Daily Express · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 1

Still the search continues with unabated vigilance for Claude Valentine Batson, the Jingellic gunman, whose indiacriml[?]ate…

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Madman Still at Large Police and Residents Search the Bush. Fugitive Fires at Pursuers. His Capture Practically Assured. Graphic Stories of Shooting

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 2

Great difficulties are being experienced in running the perpetrator of Sunday's outrage, Batson, to earth, owing to the…

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District News Barellan. Fire

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 5

A fire occurred on the farm of Mr. J. W. Jordan, some two miles from Barellan, on Thursday afternoon last. The occupants were absent in…

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Fire on Gilmore Creek. Home and Contents Gutted

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 5

The homestead of Mr. John Shaw's farm on Gilmore Creek was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. A couple of weeks ago Mr. and Mrs…

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Goulburn Bandit More Theft and Fire Police Parties on Hot Tr Ail .Goulburn

The Daily Express · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 1

The man who is terrorising the locality a few miles out from Goulburn is either a desperate character he is inspired with a super amount…

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