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Fires & bushfires, 1927

2,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 76 of 138

Four Killed Crossing Smash Car Catches Fire MELBOURNE

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 July 1927 · page 2

A shocking level crossing tragedy occurred a few miles north of Shepparton this afternoon. C. Sutton, a resident of Boort, had been visiting friends at…

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£8000 Damage Victorian Blaze Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 4 July 1927 · page 1

SEVEN shops and a private residence at Postal a Gippsland town, were destroyed by are late last night. The damage is estimated at £8000. Good…

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Mystery Fires in Leeton Cottage Malice Suspected Griffith

Evening News · Monday 4 July 1927 · page 7

AN inquiry was held by the Coroner, Mr. H. Barker, into the circumstances surrounding a fire which destroyed an unoccupied cottage in Belar-street…

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Two Brisbane Fires Petrol and Spirits Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 6

Two fires occurred in Brisbane to- day. one being caused by methylated spirits and the other by petrol. In the first case a women was filling…

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Fire in a Barn. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 12

A fire occurred in the bain of W Day's farm ar Yarragundry. The building contained last season's harvest of tobacco from a ten-acre plot. The tobacco was the…

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Disastrous Fire at Cotton Ginnery Store Shed Ablaze Rockhampton

Evening News · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 13

(CONSIDERABLE damage was done by a fire which destroyed the seed nonce shed at Glenmore ginnery last night. The total value of…

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Cotton Ablaze Fire in Ginnery £28,000 LOST -- Seed Too Rockhampton

The Sun · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 12

A disastrous fire at the Glenmore ginnery destroyed the seed storage shed containing seed and grade cotton of a 'total value, including…

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Italian Guns Fire on French Soil Inhabitants Flee Target Practice May Cause Trouble Paris

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 1

STRAY shells discharged during target practice by batteries of Italian artillery on the French frontier in the Mont Cenis district,…

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Queensland Fires. Cotton Ginnery Blaze. Valuable Seed Destroyed. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 15

A message from Rockhampton states that a serious fire occurred at the Glenmore Ginnery last night, and destroyed a storage shed containing seed and grade cotton. The…

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"Fire!"

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 13

IN "Hephaestus," the big little book we peeped into last week, there is much that is arrestively attractive on what the discovery of fire has meant to…

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Petrol Vapor Fires Bowser Pump Explodes

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 7

Lighted matches coming Into contact with petrol vapor were responsible for two fires yesterday. A motor cycle was filling up from a…

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Fire at Burwood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 16

A naked light, which came into contact with petrol escaping from a leak in a bowser pump, at the motor garage of the Reliance 'Bus Company, Ltd., in Parramatta-road,…

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Country Blaze Several Premises Gutted £30,000 Damage Kyogle

The Sun · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 2

A disastrous fire occurred here at 2.30 a.m. to-day, gutting the following premises:- Brian and Pldcock's general store:…

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£15,000 Damage Caused by Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 15

ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday. -- Damage to the extent of £15,000 was caused at the Glenmore cotton ginnery, when a fire almost destroyed the store-room…

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Cotton Seed Saved From Ginnery Fire Rockhampton

Evening News · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 11

ONE hundred bags, each containing about 80lb of Durango cotton seed, have been recovered from the fire at Glenmore Cotton Ginnnery, and it is…

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DAMAGE £15,000 Fire at Cotton Ginnery Brisrane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 7

The [?] cotton [?] was [?] destroyed by the later on Monday night £13,000 [?] age being done in the store-room…

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Intimate Glimpses of Renowned Australian Artist -- "Jack," the Fire E Dog -- Budget of Latest News Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 16

A MOSMAN "WIGWAM." At the home of Mr. Livingston Hopkins, the well-known cartoonist, is to be found this interesting exhibit. "Hop" painted the brave on wood, and arranged round the head a collection of Indian knives,…

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Disastrous Fire

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 7 July 1927 · page 7

Two thousand persons have been rendered homeless by a fire which destroyed nearly two hundred houses at a town in…

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Police Inquiry Into Kyogle Blaze Damage Is £37,000 Previous Disaster Casino

Evening News · Thursday 7 July 1927 · page 11

IT is the opinion of the police that the disastrous fire which destroyed fire which destroyed seven business premises at Kyogle is one calling for…

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Fire at Kyogle Detective Leaves Sydney

The Sun · Thursday 7 July 1927 · page 3

Detective-Sergeant Kennedy left this morning for Kyogle to make inquiries into the cause of the fire which broke out yesterday and destroyed several…

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