Fire Fighting Service
Sir,--Your leader of 22nd inst., under the above heading, was most interesting. Admittedly, the water mains in Sydney and suburbs are of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires & bushfires, 1924
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Country Fire Adelong
A disastrous [?] occurred at Grahamstown last night. A whole block of westhorboard buildings, including Mr. Young's residence, the store and…
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[?] box—making and fruit parking plant was completely gutted by fire yesterday. The proprietor was away in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Child Causes Big Fire. Moorooka Sawmills
After hearing the stories of two playmates, Sammy McGrath, aged nine years, and Johnny Reynolds, aged ten, related to Mr. J. Burrows, J.P., in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigade Men Want Holiday Changes
Members of the Fire Brigade Employees' Union are dissatisfied at the workings of the monthly leave system. Under the existing system each…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Whole Block Burned Fire at Grahamstown ADELONG
A disastrous fire occurred at Grahamstown last night. A whole block of weatherboard buildings, including Young's residence, the store, hall, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Beneath Street "Hot Time in the Old Town" LONDON, January 23
A fire in the old colliery working under Tipton in Staffordshire threatens to make the town uninhabitable. The main street has become so hot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dry Fires
Draft for a joint advertisement, written after reading the press accounts of Sydney's latest waterless blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Overcoats and Fires. "Mid Summer Winter."
A transformation from heat wave condition to wintry blasts from the south. such was Eastwood's experience this week…
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At its meeting on Monday night, Cabra- Vale Council received a letter from M. A. Tucker, asking it to notify owners of property on either side of his property…
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A unique spectacle was witnessed in Brisbane recently, when a busy thoroughfare suddenly sprang into blazing life, and flames about 2 ft. high…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →House Takes Fire. Struck by Lightning
Occupants of a house in Vore-street, Auburn, had remarkable escapes when the building was struck by lightning yesterday afternoon. The lightning struck the chimney, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Struck by [?] LIGHTNING House Set on Fire at Autiurn
When the thunderstorm was at its height yesterday afternoon, a house in Auburn was struck by lightning. It was badly damaged, but luckily the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Country News. Fire at Grahamstown. Block of Buildings Destroyed. Adelong
A disastrous fire occurred at Grahamstown three miles from Adelong, last night. The fire originated in the weatherboard residence of Mr. R. Young, and spread from there to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Met Under Shell Fire. How Viscount and Vicar Took a Battalion Into Line
The story of how a vicar and a viscount, meeting for the first time, piloted a battalion safely to its lines in the salient was told at Farrow recently when Viscount Lascelles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Forges of the Gods Harnessed Fires Prometheus and Vulcan Live the Making of Armor Plate Sheffield, December 18
PROMETHEUS, who stole the eternal fire, and Vulcan, who labored mightily in the Forge of Heaven, are mythical figures no more. In modern…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The School Days of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn By Permission of the Estate of Samuel L. [?] and the Mark Twain Company. Anything is Good Luck. If You Believe it is. Some Fires Will Give You Cold Feet. Copyright, 1923. by The Mack Twain Company. [?]
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Blaze Baker Burnt Out CESSNOCK
Last night a shop, bakehouse, and dwelling occupied by James Sharp, baker and pastrycook, were destroyed by fire. The premises were beyond saving when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rozelle Blaze Firemen's Good Save
A [?] was made by the [?] Brigade [?] when [?] were called to a shop [?] Rozelle occupied by…
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Destructive tires throughout the State, and outbreaks in the city and suburbs should remind those uninsured to insure at once with' the…
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