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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1880

4 stories in South Coast's papers

Pictures in the Fire

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 3 June 1880 · page 2

"SWEET Norah come here, and look into the fire; Perhaps in its embers good luck we may see…

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The Kelly Bushrangers. [?] Fire to the House. Intense Excitement

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 4

The siege was kept up all the for [?]noon, and until 3 o’clock in the afternoon. By that time the shooting from the hotel had ceased, and the best part of the day having elapsed, the police,…

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Fire-proofing Cotton Fabrics

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1880 · page 2

IN a paper on Borne conditions of inflammability, read before a sanitary convention in Michigan, Dr. Kedzio, of the State Board of Health, said that cotton clothing could be…

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Household. Don't Fan Fire

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1880 · page 2

IF you should come upstairs some day and see a little smouldering fire just starting in one of your floors, stealing stealthily into the carpet, you would not be very likely to sit…

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