Snowball Caught Fire! Fred Bluett Was It; Stories of Pantomime
CAN a snowball catch on fire? "Yes," says Fred Bluett, the popular comedian. "I was a snowball once, till flames melted all my snow!"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fires & bushfires, 1930
2,577 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 129
Court Stands Between Peace and Holocaust Coal Fires Smouldering One fake Step May Mean a Huge Conflagration ! General Strike Feared High Court Evidence of Extraordinary Coincidences
FOR months Australia has been on the edge of an industrial volcano, with its grim fires smouldering, ready to burst into an inferno at any time, and set the whole country ablaze in a lava stream of chaos—and that volcano may yet explode with all the terror and tragedy that can follow in its wake. ONE easily visualised that catastrophe with its awfulness while the alert, serene David John Davies, General…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dr. Peltzer Comes a Cropper Didn't See Wire Fence at Surf Gala Fell Over Himself in Eagerness to Fire Starter's Gun Hans Robertson Gets a Surprise
QUEENSCLIFFE Surf Carnival nearly cost the Athletic Association the services of one perfectly good runner, Dr. Peltzer. ASKED to fire the gun to start a heat of the Beach Relay, he was in such a hurry to get on to the job that he failed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lost All When Home Was Burnt Out Maitland
While the people were away a two-storied weatherboard house in Anzac St., Maitland, was destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning, Mr. E…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Fires. Family in Danger
A two-storied premises in Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo, was severely damaged by fire late last night. Mrs. Joseph Nappa, the occupier, and her…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sea-lion's Fire Alarm
Howden Church, in the East Riding of-Yorkshire, which was built in the 13th century has been partly destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fewer Fires Granville Statistics Twenty-four False Alarms
Although a greater number of calls were received last year "by the Granville Fire Brigade than in 1928, there were fewer fires in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Fires in Four Days. Tamworth's Experience. Tamworth
Five fares in four days are Tamworth's new year record. Yesterday morning the brigade was called to a blazing fence and rubbish heap at the rear of W. H. Carter's service station…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Big Crowd at Bourke Street Fire
Thousands gathered at 83 Bourke Street, Woolloomooloo, about 11 o'clock last night, when a two-storied house caught fire, and the top floor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →100,000 Bags Destroyed by Fire
A fire early this morning at the store of Cecil Leman, bag merchant, of Harris-street, Pyrmont, destroyed the stock and damaged a portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →House Destroyed by Fire. West Maitland
A two-story weat net board house in Anzacstreet, West Maitland, was, with its contents, totally destroyed by file early on Sunday morning. Not one article was saved. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Maniac at Large in Vic. Melbourne
NO fewer than ten empty houses in the Fawkner district were destroyed by flames caused by a fire-bug during last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Washington. Capitol Threatened. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3
Following close upon the White House fire on December 24, a fire broke out in the supplementary document-room of the House of Representatives under the dome of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Bug Terrorists Residents Alarmed in Melbourne Suburbs
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Two detectives have been detailed to assist in the apprehension of the fire bug, who has spread a scare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country News. Fire at Picture Show. Grafton
During a picture show at Glenreagh a film became ignited, and approximately 1000 feet were destroyed. The operator, D. Reynolds, extinguished the flames, but was burnt about…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Girl Ran Clothes on Fire White-worker Burned Melbourne
Becoming alarmed when her flimsy dress was set on fire by flames from a gas jet to-day, Edna Slater, 14, white-worker, of Ascot Vale-road, Ascot…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rothbury Police Army Goaded to Desperation Fires of Revolt Police Union to Act on the Edge of a Precipice Minister Sleeps and Issues Official Denials Tyranny on the Coalfields Branxton
AT last the capitalist Press has been forced into an admission of facts concerning the attitude of the police to the conditions they are obliged to endure in the Rothbury compound while harboring Weaver's blacklegs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bags Destroyed in Fire
More than 100,000 bags and suitcases were destroyed yesterday in a fire at the premises of Cecil Leman bag merchant, of Harris Street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Annandale Fire. Furniture Factory Damaged
A fire occurred in Mr. A Zaccaricis' furniture factory in Booth-street, Annandale, shortly before 9 o'clock last night, and did considerable damage to the first floor before…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →£30,000 Fire in Perth
PERTH, Monday.--The old City Markets, near the Central Railway Station, were destroyed by fire tonight. Damage is estimated at…
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