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Fires & bushfires, 1924

2,369 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 119

Goulburn Fires. Supposed Demented Man. 'A' Daring Theft. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 9

The only development in the sensational occurrences in the Woodhouselee and Kingsdale district to-day is the theft of a sulky from the residence of Mr. Gale, situated in a…

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Weird Scene Tutankhamen's Tomb Blaze of Light Dispute Stops Work LONDON, February 13

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 7

Advices from Luxor state that a press view of the tomb of Tutankhamen took place prior to a crisis between the excavators and the…

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Thrown Into Fire a Bavarian Tragedy Separatists Attacked

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 2

The conflict between the Separatists and the Bavarian authorities in the occupied region of the Rabr was marked by a terrible tragedy at Pirmazens on…

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Police Fire Shots Capture in Railway Yard Coff's Harbor

Evening News · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 5

Sergeant Sproule and Constable Buttsworth, seeing three men at the railway trucks, in the station yard, called on them to surrender, when the…

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Additional Fire Alarms

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 7

The Board of Fire Commissioners have decided to install four additional fire alarms at the following points: Mill-road and Nagle-street: Atkinson-road and…

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Girl's Clothes on Fire. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 20

A painful burning accident occurred to Alice Lavina Burns, aged 14 years, risiding at Sorrell, when her clothes caught fire at the open fireplace in the kitchen of her father's…

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Houses Destroyed by Fire. Narrabri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 18

A fire occurred this morning, at 2.30 o'clock, a few miles out of town, and completely destroyed a small weatherboard cottage owned by Mr. De Le Porvanche…

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Communists Fire on Police at Stettin

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 14.--At a Communist demonstration at Stettin yesterday, Communists tired on the police from houses, wounding one…

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Police Fire at Fugitives. Coff's Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 19

Last night Sergeant Sproute and Constable Buttsworth saw three men apparently pilfering from railway trucks in the station yard. They called on them to surrender. The men…

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Amateur Gardener What a Fire Did Quick Growth From Apple and Plum

The Sun · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 2

It was Saturday afternoon. I had been taking a look round the sports areas of the shire, and was going home about afternoon tea-time. What…

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Would Not Surrender Police Fire on Three Men

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1924 · page 1

GRAFTON, Saturday.— A message from Coff's Harbor states that Sergeant Sproule and Constable Buttsworth saw three men behaving in a suspicious manner in…

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Faulty Fire-escapes Government Action Necessary to Ensure Adequate Protection for Workers. Disquieting Extracts From Reports of Inspectors

Truth · Sunday 17 February 1924 · page 1

The inspectors employed by the shops and Factories Department are numerous and energetic, and they do their very best to see that adequate means…

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Woman's Fall Escaping from Fire Shop Burnt Out

Evening News · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 3

Escaping from a burning confectioner's shop in Oxford-street, Paddington, carly to-day, Mrs. Nellie Nelli, wife of the proprietor, fell…

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A Suspicious Fire Work of Cracksmen? Pyrmont Blaze Attempt to Blow Safe

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 5

The police believe that a fire, which for a time threatened to destroy two buildings at Pyrmont early yesterday morning, was deliberately started by…

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Cottage Gutted Sans Souci Blaze

Evening News · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 7

A fice gutted a cottage occupied [?] Newman, in [?] Sans Souci, to-day, and damaged [?] on either side…

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Damage by Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 2

ALBURY.--John Cavanagh, a farmer of Yarrawonga, was taking home a load of new furniture, and when within a short distance of his homestead, he found…

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Fire at Kogarah

The Sun · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 8

One cottage was burnt out and two others damaged by a fire which broke out at 3.56 a.m. to-day in the residence of Ernest Charles Newman,…

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Mystery Fire at Pyrmont Lady Motorist Gives Alarm--Blaze Caught Just in Time--Safe Broken Open Police Take a Hand

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 5

A lady driving a motor car along Abattoir Road, Pyrment, shortly after [?] o'clock yesterday morning, saw a fire gaming hold of the premises of…

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The Moldavia's Fire. Marine Court

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 4

At the inquiry held at Fremantle into the cause of the fire on the Moldavia, the Court found that the fire originated in No. 3 hold when the…

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Pyrmont Fire. Po[?] Investigating. Thieves Suspected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 10

The police are investigating a supiclous outbreak of fire which occurred in the premises of E. J. L. Hallstrom, Limited, bedstead and wire-mattress manufactures,…

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