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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1903

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Fire at Bowral. a Boarding-house Burnt to the Ground

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 August 1903 · page 2

The usual monotony of a wet afternoon is Bowral was suddenly broken about 5 o'clock on Saturday last by the clanging of the fire hell…

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Fire at Bowral. a Boarding House Burnt to the Ground

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1903 · page 2

The usual monotony of a wet afternoon in Bowral was suddenly broken about 5 o'clock on Saturday last by the clanging of the fire bell…

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Fire at Bowral

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 August 1903 · page 2

At about 5 p.m. on Saturday evening an employee of Messrs. Hill Broa, Mr.E. Terr, brought news to the fire station. Bowral, that "Springaide," the residence of…

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News Gleanings. The Oxley's Hill Fire

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 15 August 1903 · page 2

We understand that no inquiry is to be instituted into the can so of the recent out-break of fire on Oxley's Hill, Bowral, by which a boarding-house occupied by Mrs…

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Steamer Plibarra on Fire. Thrilling Experience of a Boy

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 September 1903 · page 1

Melbourne, Friday.-A fire broke out to-night, about 7.30, on board the U.S.N. Company's steamer Pilbarra, lying in the Yarrs. The steamer…

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Soldiers Under Fire

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 2

"The temptation to stoop when under fire is almost irresistible," said a veteran, talking over the recent hot work in the philippines, "and that accounts for so many…

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Bear on Fire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 5

During a terrible forest fire at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a bear was seen to emerge from the woods with its shaggy coat all aflame. The sagacious animal…

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Fire at a [?]

Robertson Advocate · Friday 6 November 1903 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon [?] which is situated on the book of the [?]…

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Burial Under Fire

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 16 December 1903 · page 4

High on the ridge where the marines pitched their tents on the shore of Guantanamo Bay (says the Chicage "Evenmg Post"), the first Cuban soil taken by…

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Fire at Sandringham

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 December 1903 · page 2

London, Dao. 11.—A beam the under the bedroom of her Majesty Queen Alexandra in the Royal apartments at [?]partments at Sandringham took fire yesterday…

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Coals of Fire

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 4

It was not exactly the minister's fault that the sermon which he delivered that morning was not entirely his own. He had copied a part of the original draft himself,…

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