A Fire in the West
OUT in the west a fire Marches with fierce desire…
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Bank and Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Brisbane
A disastrous fire occuired early this morning at Julia Creek, near Townsville, when Gannon's Hotel, the Queensland National Bank premises and an empty hairdressing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When the Fat Is in the Fire!! Silly Craze Condemned by the Whole Medical Profession Every Women Wants To Be a Tallulah Bankhead Avoid Drugs and Quack Preparations
GENTLEMEN prefer blondes." That may be so, and it may not But this article is not concerned with the color scheme of the gentler sex. What we want to know is whether gentlemen prefer skinny women, and if our flappers and old maids are acting wisely in…
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"FAIRY BOWER" (Coolamon).—There have been some big fires around here lately. A fire started near a neighbor's place about three miles away, and my father and brothers…
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IN addition to the tragic loss of nine lives and the destruction of the towns of Gilderoy and Three Bridges in the awful bushfires, it was feared that a third township, Fumina, had been wiped out. Fumina is a little settlement between Noogee and Powelltown, and although heavy…
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"LONELY MAIDEN" (Gunningbland).—I was staying at a friend's place in a small country village, and one Bunday we decided to go for a walk through the bush after tea. When…
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Township of Noojee as it Was rebuilt after the bush fire which destroyed it in 1926…
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Boarders at the Oxford Hotel, a large tw[?] story wooden building, were awakened at 4[?] a.m. by smoke, and found a fire in the ba[?] Part of the counter and some fittings we[?]…
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Fears that the township of Collector, 22 miles south-west of Goulburn, would be swept by serious bushfires which are raging in the district, were entertained for many hours…
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GOULBURN, Friday.--Luck and hard work saved Collector, a township 22 miles from Goulburn, from destruction to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trapped in Victorian Bush Fires, Nine Dead Settlers, Racing For Life Before Flames, Are Overtaken Father, Son, and Man Caught in Burning Grass Elder Collapsed and Others Crouched to Shield Him Mill Is Wiped Out Six of Ten Hands Die in Flames Melbourne
Nine people lost their lives, at least three were critically burned, and many suffered minor burns in bush fires which swept through the Powelltown and Noojee districts to-day in the track of the…
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A fire at Repton, on the Bellinger River, early this morning, gutted the saw mill plant of William Alfred Caine. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country News. Fire at Grenfell. Grenfell
About 11 o'clock this morning the Empire stables and garage were found to be on fre Although a fierce wind was blowing at [?] time, the fire brigade prevented the flame…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--A worrying feature of the Gippsland fires is the absence of news from certain centres…
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Nine houses were in danger of destruction early this morning in Ennis-lane, Balmain,…
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More than 370,000 acres of country have been brought under effective control by the formation, at a meeting of residents of the Millie district,…
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Nine lives were lost, three persons seriously burned, and great damage was done to property by bushfires which swept through Gippsland to-day…
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WE were all going out for the day, and were at breakfast, when father hurried in to say the far paddock was on fire…
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PARKES, Saturday. -- Lightning struck a tree on A. Milgate's property and set fire to a strip of country about a mile through A…
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Still-burning ruins that mark the patch of Victoria's tragic bush fires. The railway siding at Gilderoy, Gippsland, one of the townships that was completely wiped out. A mill-worker, was burnt to death there. -- Special "Sunday Sun" picturegram…
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