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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1923

2,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 134

Country News. Bush Fires. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 10

A resident of Albury who has returned from a visit to the Bago forest country, which is situated between Holbrook and Adelong reports that the recent fires in the forests…

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City Blaze Fire Officer Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 6

A fireman standing outside the Headquarters Fire Station, in Castlereagh Street, City, at about 8.45 last night, noticed smoke issuing from a building a…

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Rosehill Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 5

The Parramatta District Coroner, Mr. H. Richardson Clark, has intimated that he does not intend to hold an inquiry into the fire which…

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City Fires. Munro-chambers. fireman INJURED

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 9

While walking along Castlereagh-street shertly before 10 o'clock last night Mr. John Evans, of Dillon-street, Paddington, saw flames issuing from the ground floor of…

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Caretaker Rescued a City Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 7

After saving a two-storey building at 147 Castlereagh Street City, yesterday morning, the firemen wore astounded to learn that a caretaker slept on…

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Queer Capers Mystery Fire Suspect Acquitted

Evening News · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 9

An unknown man who held a solo corroboree at 2 a.m. in a suburban street, may know the cause of a cotta fire which nearly cost…

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A Bondi Hotel Threatened by Fire

Evening News · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 7

The Town Hall Hotel. Bondi, a building of three floors, containing 13 rooms. was threatened by fire yesterday, when a quantity of fat boiled…

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Mysterious Fires. Clarencetown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 10

Two mysterious fires occurred at the farmers' and dairymen's milk factory. The manager, Mr. E. Ferry, who lives near the factory, smelt something burning, and found a bundle…

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Factory Burnt Parramatta Blaze Damage £10,000

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 5

A great fire-fight, which lasted two hours, provided Parramatta with more sensation last night than has been the lot of the town for many years…

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Rosehill Racecourse Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 6

The Parramatta District Coroner, Mr. H. Richardson Clark, has intimated that it is not his intention to hold a magisterial inquiry into the cause of the recent fire at the…

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Skeletons of the Fire

The Sun · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 8

Murray Bros.' factory at Parramatta was burnt out last night. The fire did £10,000 worth of damage. This picture 'shows how thoroughly it did it…

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Gilgandra's Fires Charge of Arson Fails. DUBBO

The Sun · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 10

Evelyn B. Bradford appeared in court yesterday charged with arson at G[?]gandra. The charge related to a fire at McClure's garage…

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Big Fire Loss Brisbane

The Sun · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 7

A big fire in the main street at Clermont destroyed Melona's refreshment rooms, Kennedy's jewellery store, Dobs[?]'s garage, and Heard's…

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Fire at Bombala. Bombala

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 10

At midnight on Wednesday a six-roomed weatherboard cottage and a shed, containing farm implements, situated two miles from the town, were burned down. The house was…

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Fire in School. Nine Children Parish

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 4

A fire occurred in a mission school at Sacramento, California, on Monday last while over sevently Japaners children were being taught. A teacher…

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Five Dead Ten Missing Apartment House Fire

Evening News · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thursday Evening. Ones again evidence is afforded of the perils of life in crowded apartment houses by a telegram…

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Parramatta Fire. Storerooms Destroyed. Police Quarters Damaged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 10

Fire broke out in the establishment of Murray Bros., storekeepers, at Parramatta, early last night. Storerooms at the rear were completely gutted, while the main building,…

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Conflagrations Victoria Dock Fire. Huge Loss of Tobacco

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 4

Firemen with fire-floats fough uncessingly for seven hours to prevent the entire destruction of the Victoria Doek, London by a fire which…

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Tempest, Then Fire Banf[?]shire's Ordeal Terrific Battering Fremantle

The Sun · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 12

The complement of the Banffshir[?] which arrived at Fremantle to-day, tell a highly colored story of the experience of their vessel during the…

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Riots in Ruhr German Police Fire on Mobs Mark Collapses Unemployed Appeal to French for Protection LONDON, Thursday Night

The Sun · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 1

Rioting by the unemployed in Dusseldorf and the collapse of the mark in Berlin have aggravated the difficulties of the German policy of passive resistance against the French invasion of the Ruhr…

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