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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

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Fire at Griffith Christmas Stock Burned Thousands of Pounds Damage

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 3

A serious fire occurred in the principal shopping block in Bannaavenue, Griffith, early last Thursday evening, when the stock of one…

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Marathon Dance Tragic Termination Fire Causes Three Deaths Hampden (Maine)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 1

A five weeks' marathon dance ended to-day in death for three of the competitors and injuries to many others when a fire broke out in the…

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Lightning Causes Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 December 1933 · page 4

During yesterday's storm lightning struck a 30 ton haystack on the property of Messrs. Scilly Bros., Arajocl and set it on fire. The whole of the…

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Timber Yard Ablaze £12,000 TO £15,000 Damage Fire Fighters Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 December 1933 · page 6

A hazardous fight with a big tim[?] fire took place to-night when the timber yards of R. and J. Linary, of Prahran, were razed to the ground…

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Reichstag Fire Long Proceedings Prosecutor's Address Leipzig

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 1

The director of the prosecution at the Reichstag fire trial (Dr. Werner) addressed the court today. Some he said, were impatient of the…

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Fire at Hospital Patients Removed to Safety Several Firemen Injured London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 1

One thousand patients at the, Glamorgan Mental Hospital, Bridgend, were endangered by a fire at midnight which destroyed the…

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Mitchell Shire Bush Fires Act Will Not Register Brigades

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 December 1933 · page 8

Mitchell Shire Council met on Tuesday, Cr. F. W. Cox presiding. Others present were: Crs. D. Hamilton, C. W. Richardson, E. T…

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Reichstag Fire Death Penalty For Torgler and Van der Lubbe Prosecution's Demand Leipzig

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1933 · page 1

The director of the prosecution in the Reichstag fire, trial to-day demanded the death penalty for Torgler and Van der Lubbe, two of the accused…

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Shed Destroyed by Fire

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 3

The Wagga Fire Brigade received a call to Broad-street at 10.55 o'clock last night where a shed on the property of Mr. F. Carawell was well alight. The…

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Fire Precautions Should Council Control?

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 2

Mr. K. A. Edwards (Shire Clerk) drew attention, at Tuesday's Council meeting, to the fact that the Shire had no control in the matter of…

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Reichstag Fire Trial London Communists State Procession of Protest London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 1

More than 200 East End Communists, including women and girls marched to the German Embassy to-day to protest against the Reichstag fire…

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Steamer on Fire Arrival in Post London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1933 · page 1

The United States steamship Topa Topa (5366 tons) carrying cotton and timber from Florida to London, arrived in the Thames to-day with a fire…

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Fire Destroys Truck and

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1933 · page 4

C. H. Shipard, farmer, cf Goombargama, says an Albury message, was preparing to make an early start with harvesting operations, and carried a…

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Stepped Into Fire Child Tries to Hurry Santa Claus London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 2

Gerald Osborne, aged 6 years, telling his brother, aged 4 years, that he wanted to make Santa Claus hurry, stepped to the fireplace and called up…

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Reichstag Fire Death Sentence Passed on Van D[?]e Other Acquitted London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 1

To a densely-packed court the President of the Supreme Court at Leipzing (Dr. Buenzer) yesterday pronounced the sentences in the Reichstag fire…

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Reichstag Fire Trial Mixed Reception by Press London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 1

The "Dally Telegraph" Berlin correspondent says that the German press is in a quandary in commenting on the Re[?] fire trial. On the one…

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Playing Near Fire Boy Severely Burned Timely Rescue Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1933 · page 1

William Turner, aged 7 yean, of Forest Lodge, received severe burns to-day when his clothing caught alight while flaying at a fire near his…

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