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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1914

2,696 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 135

Who Started the Fires? Citizens Want to Know. Will Pay for Information

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 14

TENTERFIELD, Wednesday.-- The citizens are seized with the importance of ascertaining who is the author of the recent fires. At the instigation of Mr. C. A. Lee M.L.A. a meeting…

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Active Again. Suffragettes Start Fires. Three Blazes in Scotland. London, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 1

[?] having been quiet for nearby two months the [?] have resumed and within the [?] hours have act are to three different plains in [?]…

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Rescue Home Fire. Accused Before the Court. Woman's Strance Behaviour. [?]

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 9

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Suspicious Fire. Six Distinct Outbreaks. What the Brigade Found. Coroner's Inquiry Adjourned

The Sun · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 7

The Coroner (Mr. Hawkins) to-day endeavored to discover the cause of the fire which occmred at Reuben Markow Slmbllst's furniture and wood-carving factory,…

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Surry Hills Fire. Coroner Holds Inquiry. Six Distinct Outbreaks. Shavings and Methylated Spidits

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 9

The City Corner will an inquiry this morning concerning a firm which occured a premises compared by [?] a furniture [?]…

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Through a Bush Fire. Heroic Son's Effort to Save his Mother's Life

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 3

The novelist, whether of the romantic or realistic schools, would have found in an episode arising out of a bush fire in Lower Myall River…

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Mysterious Country Fires. Goulburn

Evening News · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 9

This morning, at about 6 o'clock, a fire was discovered in a wooden building used as a laundry at the rear of Mr. Hugh Reid's hairdressing and tobacconist's establishment in…

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The Walgett Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 10

WALGETT, Thursday.--'The little girl Lane, who was badly burned during the fire at the Presbyterian Manse yesterday, died last- night in tho hospital,…

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Fires in the Country. Twice Alight. Goulburn

The Sun · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

Two suspicious outbreaks of fire occurred at the rear of business premises in Auburn street, one at half-past 4 yesterday morning, and the other at half-past 6 this moraine…

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Fire Station Robbed. Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

A thief secured a good haul at the Central Fire Station last night. One brigade man discovered that his locker had been opened, and a watch and chain, valued at £10, stolen…

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Factory on Fire. Good Work by Brigades

The Sun · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 9

A fire broke out shortly before noon to-day on the top floor of the furniture, factory of Tom S. Madeley and Sons, Ltd., of 295 Sussex-street, city. The damage is estimated to be…

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The Taringa Fire. Woman Before the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 10

BRISBANE, Thursday.--In the police court today. Jane Nightingale was charged with murder in connection with the death of one of the victims of the Taringa fire…

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Suffragettes Use Fire Stick. Outrages in Perthshire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--Throe destructive fires have occurred, and have been traced to the suffragettes. The first outbreak occurred at Abercrombie Castle, Comrie, where a…

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Fire at Somerton. Arrester That Did Not Arrest

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 5

TAMWORTH, Thursday.--During a thunderstorm at Somerton, near Tamworth. the post office caught fire, owing to the telephone having been struck by lightning. The mechanism…

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Surry-hills Fire. Coroner's Inquiry. Mysterious Factory Outbreak

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

An inquiry was commenced before Mr. H. S. Hawkins, City Coroner, yesterday, concerning a lira which took place at premises occupied by Reuben Marow Simblist, cabinetmakers, at…

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Fire in Woolloomooloo. Council Shed Alight. Employee's Narrow Escape

The Sun · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 1

A fire at the municipal depot in Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo, this morning caused scare, not only in the locality, but also in the city, because of the dense volumes of…

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Taranga Fire. Woman Charged with Murder. Police Officer's Evidence. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

Jane Nightingale, 26, appeared on remand at the Central Police Court to-day, before Mr. Egglinton, P.M., charged with having, on January 27: (1) Murdered Connie Denzer, at…

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Fire in a Factory. Six Outbreaks. Evidence by Firemen and Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

The City Coroner (Mr. Hawkins) yesterday inquired into the cause of a fire, which broke out in Rcubon Markow Simblist's furniture factory, 167 Commonwealth-street, Surry Hills,…

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Smoke in the City. Tar Boils Over. Fire at Woolloomooloo. Municipal Depot Damaged

Evening News · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 8

Owing to a tar tank boiling over at the Woolloomooloo Municipal Depot, at the foot of Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo, a few minutes before [?] o'clock this morning, a fire broke out…

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The Waverley Tragedy. Inquest on Mrs. Mullan. a Pair of Fire Tongs Used. Message on a Newspaper

Evening News · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 8

A sad story was told at the City Coroner's Court this morning at the inquest concerning the death of Elizabeth Adeline Emma Mullan, 27, a married woman, which occurred at…

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