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Floods & storms, 1935

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Victorian Floods Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 August 1935 · page 2

Further details of the floods in the Gippsland district show that about 20 farms, which were abandoned at the week-end, are now under water which…

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Serious Rioting Breaks Out in France Wage Cut Protest Dockyard Workers Clash With Police and Marines Thousands Storm Prefecture Sentry Boxes Smashed and Cafes Wrecked PARIS

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 1

A serious [?]ave rioting has spread over Paris, Brest, and Tourlo[?] the last 24 hours as a protest against the 10 per [?]wage cut. Docky[?] workers at Brest refused to work on the new…

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The Gundagai Floods Just Supposin’ If Burrinjuck Burst

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 2

“I read, in your last issue, what the late Mr. Turnbull had to say about the ‘52 flood,” said a Gundagai man Saturday, "and the tales one hears…

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Old Gundagai Before the ’52 Flood

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 2

In his “Historical and Statistical account of New South Wales,” Dr. john Dunmore Lang, D.D., writing of Gundagai, seven years before the…

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Storm Damage in N.Z. Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 4

Electrical storms of unparalleled violence caused great damage in parts of the Dominion. At Rewarau lightning struck a number of houses, and…

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Maher Cup Storm More Trouble Ahead "Dirty Linen Washed." Secretary Will Tell Things

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 4

It looks as if the Maher Cup is again going to shake things up in Group 9. Someone early this year said that peace had broken out in…

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Murray River Catchment Heavy Falls But No Immediate Flooding Albury

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 4

Although there has been an unusually heavy fall of rain in the catchment area of the Murray River, and Mounts Bogong and Feathertop are…

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The Gundagai Floods Just Supposin1' If Burrinjuck Burst

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 1

"I read, in the Gundagai 'Independent,'what the late Mr. Turnbull had to say about the "52 flood," said a Gundagai man on Saturday week…

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Italian Catastrophe Over 1000 Drowned When Dam Bursts at Ovada 400 Square Miles Flooded Houses Collapse Over Occupants' Heads Rome

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 August 1935 · page 4

More than 1000 people are believed to have been drowned as a result of a dam bursting at Ovada, near Genoa, as a result of torrential rains. The dam, which was 100 feet high and 300 feet long, was constructed to hold…

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Disastrous Flood Turin

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 15 August 1935 · page 4

Many Turin families, who were marooned on roofs and trees, o[?] within their homes, are still being rescued to-night from the…

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Bursting of Dam Whole Valley Flooded in Italy Bodies Lying Everywhere

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 1

Families marooned on roofs or trees, or trapped in their homes, were still bring weened to-night from the terrible avalanche of water which flooded…

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Italian Disaster Eighty Bodies Recovered in Flooded District Ovada

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1935 · page 2

Among the most pathetic of the stories that have told following the disastrous bursting of the Ovada dam, is that of a peasant who was caught…

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Floods in Italy. 1000 Persons Drowned Big Dam Bursts

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 August 1935 · page 6

More than 1000 persons, it is believed, were drowned at Ovada, near Alestandria, and the neighboring town, when a dam burst, after…

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The Weather Violent N.Z. Storms Man Wanders in Blizzard Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 August 1935 · page 2

Many parts of New Zealand are ex-periencing violent storms, accompanied by heavy rains. Becoming separated from a party of friends who…

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Italian Floods Eleven Lives Lost Naples

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 1

Eleven people were drowned in floods following five hours of torrential rain…

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Schooners Wrecked Violent Atlantic Storm

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 1

ST. JOHN'S (Newfoundland), Monday.—Reports of death and destruction by a violent 60 miles an hour gale, on the south-eastern coast of…

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Forty Lost North Atlantic Storms Wreck Fishing Boats

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 August 1935 · page 6

St. John's (Newfoundland) Tues. Is estimated that 40 fishermen are drowned as the result of the week-end hurricane. Seventeen…

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Thunderstorm at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1935 · page 2

A thunderstorm passed over Junee in the early hours of Saturday morning. Heavy rain fell, but fer only a few minutes. Rain was recorded…

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Holbrook Shire Council Monthly Meeting Flood Damage Application

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1935 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the Holbrook Shire Council, held on August 27, there were present: Councillors F. W. Nolan (chairman), J. C. Bowler…

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Storm Off Florida Passenger Steamer Strikes Reef Miami (Florida)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1935 · page 2

The fury of a tropical storm beat across the Florida. Keys to-night, and as it whirled to the north-west the entire southern tip of the peninsula was…

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