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Fires & bushfires, 1937

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16 Fires in a Month Incendiarist Busy at Ballarat Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 2

Another fire at Ballarat last night has revived the police search for the incendiarist who in the past month is believed to have been responsible for…

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Fire At Seymour Show Cattle Perish Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 4

Blown across railway tracks by a high wind, a blaze, which broke out at timber mills near Seymour last night, set fire to a cattle train, on…

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Bush Fire Near Manly Residents Fight Flames Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 4

Bush fires threatened the Dalwood home for babies and a number of other cottages at Manly yesterday. Firemen from several suburban stations, assisted…

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Disastrous Fire in Vienna Vienna

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

A battalion of infantry, firemen and police vainly fought a fire in the rotunda of Vienna's Crystal Palace, which was built in 1873 for the…

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Fire at Junee Building Destroyed Car Also Damaged JUNEE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

On Saturday morning at 2.30 o'clock the toot tooting of a number of railway engines warned the citizens of Junee of a fire…

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Fire at Junee Weatherboard Building Destroyed Car Also Badly Damaged

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 4

On Saturday morning, at 2.20 o'clock the toot tooting of a number of railway engines warned the citizens of Junee of a fire…

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Fire at Junee Weatherboard Building Destroyed Car Also Sadly Damaged

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 4

On Saturday morning at 2.20 o'clock, the toot tooting of a number of railway, engines warned the citizens of Junee of a fire,…

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New Anti-piracy Pact Patrols May Now Fire on Planes Aerial Warfare at Sea Geneva

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

Britain, Bulgaria, France, Egypt, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, Russia and Jugoslavia have made a farther anti-piracy Pact for the…

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Fires Maliciously Caused Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 2

After returning a finding that fires in two cottages at Newtown had been caused maliciously, the coroner (Mr. Oram) to-day said he had come to…

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Tumut Fire Brigade New System of Alarm

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 2

Mr. H. G. Watson, the Board of Fire Commissioners electrician, has been in Tumut installing a new system of magneto bell-ringing in…

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Damaging Fire at Queanbeyan Joiner's Shop QUEANBEYAN

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 1

Fire gutted a joinery shop, together with its contents, comprising machinery, timber, paints, and gloss, last night. Owned by Thomas Robbins,…

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Disastrous Fire £2000 Damage at Kyneton Kyneton (V.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 1

Tylden's worst flue occurred on Saturday morning, when the Club Hotel was gutted and an adjoining store damaged by fire. The estimated damage…

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Rescue From Fire 'Woman's Heroism SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 1

When a house at Gulargambone caught fire yesterday afternoon, two children sought refuge in a front bedroom, and were in danger of being…

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Berlin Air Raid Drill City in Darkness; Fires Raging Theoretically Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 2

Berlin is in darkness to-night, although theoretically after a day's air raid all the buildings in Wilmhelm Platz, including the Ministry for…

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Damaging Fire at Queanbeyan Joiner’s Shop

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 5

Fire gutted a joinery shop, together with its contents, comprising machinery, timber, paints, and glass, on Monday night. Owned by Thomas…

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Trapped by Fire Two Children Rescued by Woman Home Completely Destroyed GULARGAMBONE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 1

While their mother was in hospital and their father in ra shop in the township yesterday afternoon; two children had a narrow escape from losing their…

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Printery Fire Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 1

When a fire broke out in the dark room or Dugdales Plan Printing Works in Lombard Chambers, Pitt street, city, to-day, dense smoke enveloped the…

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Fire in School Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 4

A wing of the Manly West Public School was badly damaged by fire to-day. The outbreak, which mysteriously occurred beneath the flooring…

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Big San Francisco Fire Damage Over £1,250,000 San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 1

A fire is raging uncontrollably the plant of the Standard Oil Company of California. The blaze threatened the entire industrial district at…

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House Destroyed by Fire Wife's Remarkable Allegations Against Her Husband Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 4

Allegations that her husband had confessed to burning down a house were made at the Coroner's Court to-day by Mrs. Rose Buchanan, hotel…

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