Six Hurt in Sydney Fire Started in Photography Shop
SYDNEY, Monday—Five men and a young were injured in a fire which gutted the [?] floor of Albert Buildings, in Bathurst street, near Castlereagh street, today…
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Six Injured in Sydney Fire Top Floor of City Building Gutted
SYDNEY, Monday: Five men and a young girl were injured in a fire which gutted the top floor of the Albert Buildings in…
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At Wednesday's meeting of the Tumut Shire Council the Graziers' Association asked Council to convene a conference with the…
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Bob Schwab, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Schwab, of Farm 460, Leeton, had a narrow escape from serious Injury, on…
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LONDON, Monday: A report by Lloyds yesterday said that the 7174-ton British steamer. Avismoat, was making for Fremantle…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Hundreds of employees jammed the narrow stairs as they fled for safety when a fire gutted the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—As the death toll in the disastrous French forest fires continues to mount, reports from New York…
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BUNDANOON, Tuesday.—A man made a heroic dash through flames early this morning to rescue three children trapped in a fire which destroyed Park Lodge holiday flats…
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A fire early on Sunday caused damage estimated at £8000 to the Orange Producers’ Rural Co-operative Society’s cool store…
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The fire which broke out in the hold of the British freighter Avismoat, after several explosions, was today reported to be…
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Workmen from Wormaids Bros, Sydney, have completed the installation at Stratum's flour and rice mill of an…
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LONDON, Friday—Three children, their mother, and grandmother were burned to death in their Bristol home…
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A five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Wall Street, North Wagga, was gutted by fire on Wednesday afternon shortly…
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Local citizens stopped a fire from spreading along an oil-seeped path, 30 feet from the C.D.R. depot, yesterday…
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Eric Haydon (50), a strainer to the district was severely burnt about, the body when he accidently fell into a fire at his camp…
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Wagga are brigade was called out yesterday evening to extinguish a fire in a chimney at the residence of Mr. Derbyshire, in…
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An Elizabeth street youngster, Claude Briggs, son of Mrs. A. Briggs, is at present being treated as an out-patient of the Junee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boys' Narrow Escape at Young Sealed Pipe Bursts Over Fire Being Used as Grid to Cook Rabbits
Three boys had a narrow escape when a sealed pipe exploded over a fire. It was being used by the lads as a grid on…
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A Junee youngster, Claude Briggs son of Mrs. A. Briggs, is at present being treated at the Junee Hospital, as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sunday in R.C. Church Social Justice Present Education System Comes Under Fire
Sunday was celebrated as Social Justice Sunday in all Catholic Churches, and under the authority of the Archbishops and Bishops in…
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