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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1928

2,408 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 121

Great Fire. Raging at Karachi. Enormous Loss Reported. Calcutta, April 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 17

A great fire has broken out among the cotton and wheat stocks accumulated in the railway yards at Karachi, and threatens the city. The damage already done is estimated at…

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Trainee's Death Tragedy at Camp Kerosene on Fire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 7

A tragedy was associated with the annual camp of trainees at Liverpool on March 11, whereby a young man named Alderton, and resident of Waverley, met…

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Events of the Day Raging Flames Great Indian City on Fire Enormous Damage

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 4

Fire, which already had caused damage estimated at £6,000,000, broke out among the cotton and wheat stocks accumulated in the railway…

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No Peace While Under Fire

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 April 1928 · page 2

In face of the preparations of the capitalist class of Australia and Britain (through their agent. Bruce) for a general attack on the conditions of Australian workers, the shilly-shallying of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions is sheer treachery…

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Fire at Sea. Cargo Steamer Breeze. Extinguished in Port. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1928 · page 7

A fire was discovered in the after hold of the steamer Breeze at midnight, when the vessel was about 40 miles from Wanganui. The hold contained bagged lime, flour, potatoes, and…

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MOTORS & Motoring Fighting Bush Fires Interesting Thornycroft Lorry

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1928 · page 30

Visitors to the R.A.S. Show this year who have large holdings in the country, will find much to interest them at Stand No. 26, where a large number…

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Your Garden Iceland Poppies excellent for garden flowers--When to cut the blooms--Beautiful [?]spurs--The Fire Plant--Roses for hedges--In the Vegetable patch

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 April 1928 · page 12

ICELAND POPPIES are excellent garden flowers, and are great favorites for table and house decoration. The dainty flowers in white, yellow, orange, and pink…

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Bizet's Fire

Truth · Sunday 8 April 1928 · page 11

"CARMEN," with an her fire, her gypsy followers, and her passionate episodes, attracted a capacity house to St. James Theatre last night…

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Three Homes Alight Undercliffe Fire

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1928 · page 5

A weatherboard cottage in Undercliffe-road, Undercliffe, occupied by Ernest Rodgers, was, with its contents, destroyed lost night by a fire which…

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Three Cottages Burnt Blaze at Undercliffe

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1928 · page 2

In a blaze in Undercliffe Road, Undercliffe, on Saturday night three cottages were damaged by fire. The first call received by the…

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Three Houses Go Melbourne Blaze Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 April 1928 · page 1

The houses in a terrace in [?] Street. Williamstown, were threatened by fire which destroyed three early this morning…

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Fire at Undercliffe. Three Cottages Damaged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1928 · page 9

Three weatherboard cottages in Underclifferoad. Undercliffe, were [?] by a fire, which broke out soon after 8 o'clock on Saturday night…

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Big Fire Melbourne Blaze Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 10 April 1928 · page 11

A big fire brok[?]eout this afternoon in a three-storey stone building in Faradny-street, Carlton, occupied by Ball and Welch, the well-known…

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Fire Threatens City Block Disastrous Blaze is Averted Four Brigades Out

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1928 · page 3

Floors in Little Regent Street, near the railway station, assumed alarming proportions early last night, but was extinguished after a hard…

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Damage in City Fire

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 April 1928 · page 1

Severe damage was done by [?] to several firms occupying Carey B[?] Regent street. City last night. These were:…

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Injured by Back-fire

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 April 1928 · page 1

When the car he was cranking back-fired, on the Liverpool Bond, near Liverpool, yesterday, David Dodd, 34, of Norman Street. Rozello, had his left…

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Severe Damage. Fire in City Building

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1928 · page 11

Severe damage was caused to the lower floors of Carey's Buildings, a building of three stories in Little Regent-street, city, by a fire which occurred last night…

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Lorry on Fire Picnickers Jump Clear Driver's Hands Burnt

The Sun · Tuesday 10 April 1928 · page 8

A motor lorry which was returning with a picnic party of men, women, and children, from Lake Casula caught fire in Liverpool-road, near…

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Fire in Cottage. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 April 1928 · page 16

Damage to the extent of £200 to a cottage in Blackwood-avenue, occupied by Henry Goddes, was caused last evening as the result of a fire which broke out in the kitchen. Most…

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Thieves Fire Shop Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 April 1928 · page 3

Thieves are believed to have been responsible for a fire which occurred in a drapery and millinery shop and dwelling in Hanson St. Adelaide at 2…

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