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Floods & storms, 1907

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Queensland Cyclone and Tidal Wave

The Worker · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 13

The trip of the Queensland steamer Mehidvis in search of wreckage from the schooner Pilot, which was recently lost with all hands, has furnished particulars of the…

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Remarkable Case. Drover Becomes Insane. Terrible Flood Experiences. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 2

A strange case was before the local sessions to-day, when Charles Collins a drover, who recently ran amok at Newcastle and smashed plate glass…

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Early Colonial Days. [All Rights Reserved.] The Biography of a Reliable Old Native, JOHN McGUIRE. A graphic and interesting epitome of the stirring times of long ago, replete with sensational incidents and thrilling episodes. the Great Flood

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 16 February 1907 · page 4

Shortly afterwards I made tracks over to the Lachlan. I struck the Carrawobbudy station below Forbes (where I had been before),…

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Floods in Algeria. Extensive Damage Done

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 2

The town of Bona, a Mediterranean seaport Algeria, is flooded. Thousands of bouses, including the municipal and other public buildings are submerged…

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Flood

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 2

Bona, a town on the sea coast of Algeria, has been flooded, and the damage is estimated at forty thousand pounds. Many natives have been drowned…

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Great Gale

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 2

A severe gale swept over England and northern Europe, the velocity of the wind reaching 60 miles an hour…

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Trotting on Showgrounds Mr. Wade in Reply. a Storm in a Teacup

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

The Attorney-General on Wednesday returned to the question that is at present causing much discussion about trotting at agricultural shows…

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Great Floods. in Central Australia. Biggest for Twenty-five Yeahs. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 7

A message has reached Charleville to be effect that heavy rains have been experienced in Central Australia. Mr. Archdall, representative, of Birt…

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Town Partly Demolished Terrific Storm at Bodangora. the Inhabitants in Terror Many Narrow Escapes

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 2

A terrific storm of cyclonic violence struck Bodangora, a small town 250 miles west of Sydney, about 8 o'clock on Monday night, doing considerable…

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Storm at Bodangora. Churches Levelled to the Ground. Many Buildings Unroofed. Trees Blown 100 Yards. Bodangora

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 4

A terrific storm of cyclonic violence struck the town at 8 o'clock last night, doing considerable damage. Scarcely a place escaped…

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Great Floods in Central Australia

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 15

Reported from Charleville (Q.) that the greatest floods for 25 years have occurred in Central Australia. A representative of a Brisbane firm who went to inspect 3000…

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"The Family." an American Book. Gifted Woman Raises a Storm

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 3

An American correspondent writes to the London "Daily Telegraph":— Probably the most surprised woman in America was Mrs Elsie Clews…

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Burning Ship Falls Over. Dock Flooded by a Shot

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1907 · page 2

Whilst the fire and the explosions were at their height, the timber extending from the sides and shores of the great dock to support the Jena gave…

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Gales and Floods American States Devastated Hundred Thousand Work-people Idle. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

Storms of unpredecented violence, accompanied by a gale, have been experienced in Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky, United States…

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Great Storms in America Disastrous Effects. Enormous Damage. London, March 15

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 2

Storms and rain of unprecedented violence have been experienced in Virginia. The Ohio and the Kentucky Rivers rose rapidly, causing great…

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The American Floods. Accompanied by Fires. Damage £2,000,000. Twenty-thousand Homeless. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 2

The big floodS which have prevailed in parts of America are subsiding. The damage at Pittsburg, where a large number of factories along the banks of…

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The Floods in America. Disastrous Results. 20,000 People Homeless. London, March 18

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 2

The floods in the United States are subsiding. The damage caused by the floods at Pittsburg is estimated at £2,000,000, and twenty thousand…

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Heroic Divers in a Flooded Mine. Sustain Entombed Man for Days Record Rescue in W.a

The Worker · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 10

The annals of mining the world over shine with countless examples of splendid heroism, but those annals are surely enriched by the story of how diver F. Hughes,…

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Nine Novels a Day. Flood of Fiction Last Year

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 6

The "Publishers' Circular" announces that 6985 new books were published in 1906, and 1618 new editions issued, so that the grand total for the year was…

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LITERATURE. Short Story. Carried by Storm

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 4

Milly Power stood at the garret window and looked out upon an acreage of warehouse roofs. This was her birthday, and she was fifteen, but…

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