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Floods & storms, 1897

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Late Gale

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 2

WE rarely receive our blessings without some admixture of trouble or inconvenience. This has been the case in regard to the recent rains which has proved so…

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A Great Magnetic Storm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 4

ON 1st September, 1859, a bright ontburst of flame of surpassing brilliancy was observed to pass with great rapidity across an immense sunspot, the photosphere of the…

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A Balloon in a Gale

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 23 June 1897 · page 2

How many people know that in the most furious gale that ever blew the occupants of a "free" balloon are in an absolute calm; so calm, indeed, that a newspaper might be opened…

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