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Fires & bushfires, 1907

2,032 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 102

Girl's Clothes Catch Fire. Gunning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 10

Josephine Phillips, aged 16, while standing before a fire last night, was badly burned about the lower extremities through her dress [?]gniting…

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Fire Escape Ladders Capsized Two Men Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 11

While answering a call to a small fire in Erskine-street at 1.30 yesterday morning the small escape ladders from the Circular Quay division of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade…

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Threw Her on the Fire Drunken Husband's Act 'A Wife's Pathetic Evidence

The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 6

In the Divorce Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson, Catherine Reilly (formerly Eggleston) sought a dissolution of her marriage with Thomas Reilly, the…

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Fire at Corowa

Evening News · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 3

COROWA, Thursday.—A four-roomed weatherboard cottage. owned by Mrs. M'Mahon, was partially destroyed by fife last night. Only the strenuous exertions of the fire brigade…

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Fire Station for Enfield

Evening News · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 4

Enfield Council is in, receipt of a communication from Mr. W. Taylor suburban representative on the Fire Brigades Board, stating that the Government has signed a contract for the…

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Inquest on a Fire. Books to Be Impounded

Evening News · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The District Coroner, Mr. Hibble, finished the inquest to-day at Merewether concerning the total destruction on May 26 of a general store and dwelling,…

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Late Cable News. Received This Morning. Arson Extraordinary. a Fire Brigade Arrested. "To Rebuild the Town."

Evening News · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—The members of the volunteer fire brigade at Siebenlehn, Saxony, have been arrested for numerous cases of incendiarism…

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Fires. Corowa[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 11

An unoccupied weatherboard cottage, owned by Mrs. M'Mahon, was partially destroyed by fire last night. The alarm was quickly given, and the prompt attendance of the fire brigade…

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The Merewether Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 8

The District Coroner, Mr. Chas. Hibble, concluded an inquest to-day into the facts relating to the fire which destroyed the shop and dwelling-house occupied by Mr. Thomas…

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Fire Brigade Arrested. Members Set Fire to Buildings

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A volunteer fire brigade has been arrested at Siebenlehn, Saxony, for numerous cases of incendiarism…

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Fire Inquiry at Merewether

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 7

The District Coroner, Mr. Kibble, yesterday concluded an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding a fire which occurred on May 26 last on premises occupied by Thomas Robson,…

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The Country. Fire at Corowa

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 6

COROWA, Thursday.--A four-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned by Mrs. M'Mohon, was partially destroyed by fire last night, only the strenuous exertions of the fire brigade…

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Sensational Incendiarism. Fire Brigade Implicated. London, June 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 7

The members of the volunteer fire brigade at Siebenlebm, Saxony, have been arrested for numerous cases of incendiarism. The firemen declared that they had been…

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An Open Verdict Inquest Into the Merewether Fire Newcastle

The Australian Star · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 6

The inquest into the fire that occurred on May 26 in a store occupied by Thomas Robson, jun., in Railway -street, Merewether, was concluded to- day, when an open verdict was…

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Fire Brigade Display

The Methodist · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

A large number of the members of the Conference, with their wives, relatives and hosts, attended, by the courtesy of the officials at the main Fire Station, through the intervention of Mr. T. Tinley, a…

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New Fire Station

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 13

Canterbury is to have a new fire station, the plans for which are already in the hands of the Government Printer, and tenders for the building will be called for shortly…

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Human Fire Resisters

The World's News · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 12

Dr. Decrequy states that in the course of some spiritistic seances at the Villa Carmen, in Algiers, in which the medium was a woman…

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"Frightened by False Fire."

The World's News · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 2

"I'm afraid to take fencing lessons, for 'tis such an exhausting exercise." "Not a bit of it. Who told you so?" "Maizie is taking them, and she always is…

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Huge Fire Dangers in Sydney

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 9

Just aa in other large cities where big factories and lofty hotels have come to be the requirements of to-day, so in Sydney…

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Steamer on Fire German Liner Varzin Alight

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 1

A little before 8 o'clock this morning a fire broke out--or was first observed--on board the German steamship Varzin, lying alongside the German-Australian Co.'s wharf in…

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