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Floods & storms, 1911

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Floods in Queensland. Railway Service Cancelled. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1911 · page 2

The heavy floods in North Queensland continue unabated and all railway service bas been cancelled owing to washaways…

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Peculiar Railway Accident. Engine Fires Flooded. Breakdown Near Junee. Junee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 2

A mild sensation was caused on the south-western passenger train this evening about two miles from Junee. Suddenly, near the racecourse, the…

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Destructive Snow Storms

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 2

Severe snow storms are occurring in Paris, and the city is in the throes of a terrific blizzard. The damage to vineyards as well as other crops…

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Houses Swept Away. Floods in Queensland. Railway Line Hanging. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 4

A telegram from Cairns on Monday states that there have been heavy floods, and that the streets of the town are under water. On Saturday the…

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Terrible Cyclone. Family Lifted Out of Bed. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1911 · page 2

A cyclone swept Oklahama City, America. At one place all the members of a family were lifted out of the house in their beds and seriously…

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Boxing. "Cyclone" Thompson. Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 2

"Cyclone" Thompson (lately in Australia) demands £600 and 35 per cent. of the gate to fight Hugo Kelly. The terms were acceded to by the Drexel…

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Floods in South America

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

Heavy rain storms caused a flood at Buenos Ayres. Several buildings collapsed, two persons being killed and 50 injured…

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Rain in the Country. Floods at Molong. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 2

Beneficial rains have fallen in many parts of the country. There are big floods in the Molong district. A. washaway on the line…

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Flooding a Bank

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 4

Like the Bank of England the Bank of France is now guarded every night by soldiers, who do sentry duty outside the building a which being likewise kept in…

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Floods in Russia. a Premature Spring. St. Petersburg

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 2

Reports from Western Russia and Siberia tell of the sadden arrival of spring. The rice bas broken up and with the melting of the snows has…

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Floods Abating

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 2

The floods in the southern portion of Buenos Ayres are abating, and eight bodies have been recovered…

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Floods in Buenos Ayres. Citizens Refuge in Schools and Churches. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 2

Owing to torrential rains in the southern portion of the city Buenos Ayres is flooded. People are sheltering in churches and schools…

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Floods Subsiding. Buenos Ayres

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 4

The floods at Buenos Ayres are abating. Several bodies have been recovered…

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Boxing. Middle-weight Championship. "Cyclone" Thompson Defeated. a Savage Contest. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 2

At Racine, Hugo Kelly, the claimant to the middleweight championship, uppercut "Cyclone" Thompson through ten rounds of savage…

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Capital Site. Official Description. a "Sometimes" River. Dry and Flooded

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 6

Included in the letterpress with which competitors for the prizes of £3000 for the best designs for laying out the capital city of Canberra are…

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Rush of Water. the Ladies. Floods Newcastle Pit

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 7

Great consternation, said a correspondent telegraphing from Newcastle to "Lloyd's News" on February 19, was created in the district at midnight, when A Charlotte Corday hat of beaver, with a fold of old gold ribbon and a trill of ivory lace softening the brim. A new style of hairdressing which, in…

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Items of News Floods Prophesied

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 2

Through the Meteorological Department, the local police have been instructed to warn the residents of the low-lying districts that, now the…

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Violent Gales. Heavy Coastal Rains. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 4

A heavy southerly gale raged on the coast during the night and this morning, accompanied by drenching rain squalls. Many vessels are…

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Terrible Gale

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 2

A severe westerly gale swept over certain parts of Austria last month. There were 100 accidents, two of them fatal, in Vienna alone. Meteorological returns…

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Heavy Rains. Floods in Victoria. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 2

The heavy rains have caused floods in the Graceburn and Watt Rivers. Many boarding houses are cut off at Healesville and the main road is like…

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