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Floods & storms, 1927

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North Coast Floods Mullumbimby Isolated Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1927 · page 2

A message from the portal coast says that Mullumbimby is under water. Heavy rain continues, and already 12 inches has been recorded…

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Floods in Algeria Nearly 3000 Drowned MARSEILLES

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 1
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M. Vlolonte, a former Governor-General of Algeria, states that the fertile plains of Oran are covered with eight to twelve inches of mud…

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An Unusual Storm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 3

Leeton was just on the fringe of the storm on Saturday afternoon and evening last, when 19 points of rain were registered at the Leeton…

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Flood at Illabo

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 2

Heavy rain fell at Marrina on Friday night and there was a heavier storm on Saturday morning. The storm water went over the…

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The Weather a Dust Storm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 December 1927 · page 2

on Saturday afternoon, after an unpleasantly hot day, pedestrians were considerably inconvenienced by a severe bust from which broke over the…

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Mail Train Saved Railway Ganger's Discovery Flood Destroys Embankment NEWCASTLE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 December 1927 · page 1

MORE LIKE fiction than fact is the story of how a railway ganger named Ryan saved the Kempsey mail from disaster on Monday…

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Thunderstorms General Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 December 1927 · page 2

Light to heavy rain, with many thunderstorms were fairly general over the north-east quarter and at seat[?]ered places on the South Coast an…

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0Mail Train Saved Railway Ganger's Discovery Flood Destroys Embankment NEWCASTLE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 December 1927 · page 2

More like fiction man [?] is not story of how a railway ganger named Ryan saved the Kempsey mail from disaster yesterday. Ryan is incharge…

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Weather in England Snow, Floods and Gales Traffic Disorganised Motor Cars Buried in Drifts London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 2

Gangs were working ceaselessly all day digging out snowed up trains all over the country. The majority of the main lines are now clear, but branch…

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