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Fires & bushfires, 1925

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Watchman Fires Shots Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 2

At 1 o'clock this morning James Thompson, watchman, saw a man tampering with the front door of a shop in Surrey Hills, When…

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Escaped Through the Window. Inquest on the Yoogali Fire

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 2

After listening to the evidence at the Griffith Courthouse on Wednesday, concerning a fire that destroyed Mr. James Alexander McKenzie's…

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Fire at Basrah Very Heavy Damage. (Reuter Service) BOMBAY, August 29

The Daily Express · Monday 31 August 1925 · page 1

A Bagdad [?]essage reports that 28 shops and 11 houses were destroyed in a big fire at Basrah on Thursday night…

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Fire in Packing Mill

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 1

A fire broke out in premises occupied by the Hills District Co-operative Packing Company, Ltd., at Rogan's Kill on Monday. A large shed was…

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"A Peeping Tom" Inquiry Into Seaside Fire. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 2

An inquiry was Held by the City Coroner, to-day, concerning a fire which destroyed two unoccupied detached wooden cottages at Queenscliff, on…

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Motor Bus on Fire Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 2 September 1925 · page 4

A motor 'bus caught, fire this morning Crown street, Darling burst, when it had 15 passengers on board. At the passengers escaped,…

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Yarragundry Fire Inquiry by Coroner. Open Verdict

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1925 · page 1

Mr. J. B. Gibson, District Coroner held an inquiry at the Court [?] Wagga, yesterday into the circumstances attending the total destruction…

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Fire at [?]Almain £20,000 Damage Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 4 September 1925 · page 2

A big fire broke out at [?]main tonight In the premises of C[?]un and Catts picture frame builders and moulders…

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A Ship Fire Kent Dest[?] Strike Incident at Auckland Auckland, Sep 8

The Daily Express · Friday 4 September 1925 · page 3

This [?] had been anchore[?] in this [?] for [?]days owing to the [?] strike was badly damaged [?]…

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Fire in Billiards Saloon

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 September 1925 · page 2

The Fire Brigade was called out by citizens by telephone at 8.25 o'clock last night to Outram's billiards saloon, Baylis Street. The fire had started in…

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The Old-Time Hops Each a Bumper Success. Galaxy of Costumes and Blaze of Color

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Monday 7 September 1925 · page 4

"It wits a great night!" Such was the popular verdict concerning the grand old-time. bull in aid of the Tumut Musical Festival fund on…

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Dublin Fires Thrilling Rescues Girls Jump Into Street Dublin

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 2

Thrilling rescues characterised a fire in business premises in May street, in which forty people were trapped…

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Alarm of Fire Billiard Tables Damaged

The Daily Express · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 2

The continuous ringing of the fire bell for several minutes on Sunday night caused a great many people within hearing to hurry in the…

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Sensational Fire Many Leap From Burning Building. Dublin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 2

Sensational rescues characterised a fire at business premises in Mary-street, in which 40 people were trapped Twenty seven jumped from the second…

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Jump for Life Scenes at a Fire Fifteen Persons Injured London, September 6

The Daily Express · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 1

Sensational rescues characterised a fire at business premises In Mary Street, Dublin, when 40 people were trapped and 27 men and…

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To-day's Wire Disastrous Fire. Hawkesbury (Ontario), Sept. 8

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1925 · page 4

More than fifty million feet of lumber valued at seven million dollars were burned and the Hawkesbury lumber plant destroyed by fire to-day…

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Raid on Mine Mt. Morgan Strikers Engineers and Clerks Ejected Fires Drawn and Lights Out ROCKHAMPTON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 5

A mob of about 100 men who claim they have Seen locked out at Mount Morgan mine, rushed the mine workings, seised the chief metallurgist and…

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Tobacco Burns Immense Factory Fire. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Monday 14 September 1925 · page 2

A fire which occurred at the British Australian Tobacco Coy’s factory yesterday damaged, tobacco last valued at £100,000…

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Mount Morgan the Mine on Fire Strikers to the Rescue Rockhampton

The Daily Express · Monday 14 September 1925 · page 1

A telephone message from Mount Morgan states that this morning the pear of the minehead was seen to be afire…

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