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Fires & bushfires, 1937

1,947 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 98

Fire Engine, Car in Crash: Girl's Escape

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 9

MISS ZELMA ADELAIDE LESSER, of Melbourne, whose car was involved in a collision with a fire engine in Martin Place yesterday, escaped with a small bruise on her left elbow…

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Police Fire on Crowd; Seven Killed London

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 1

POLICE fired on a procession of alleged seditionists at San Juan Port Rico. West Indies. Seven were killed and 41. injured…

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Fire Trial Recalled by Death of Judge Berlin

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 7

Dr. William Buenger, President of the Leipzig High Court, who sentenced the Dutchman Van der Lubbe to death in connection with the…

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Collision Near Cenotaph. Fire Engine and Car. Woman Driver Uninjured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 10

A Aie engine and a motor car collided in Martin-place, city, yesterday morning, and the car, which was driven by Miss Zelma Lesser, of Melbourne, was hurled against…

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Crash of Car Into Cenotaph Woman Motorist In Collision With Fire Engine

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 9

A HUGE crowd watched, horrified, when a motor-car, come into collision with a fire brigade engine, and crashed with tremendous force into…

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Riot in Puerto Rico. Seven Killed. Police Fire on Crowd. Ponce (Puerto Rico), March 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 18

An attempt by the police to prevent a, nationalist demonstration resulted in s riot in which seven were killed, including two policemen, and 50 were…

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Fat Lady, Fat Boy, Fat Pig Slimming Mixture Put The Fat In The Fire All Big Turns

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 4

THE sideshow suburb of show City was not quite at its top yesterday, but the signs are that many new features will be there, side by side…

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Fire Follows Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Windows were shattered, a two-storied galvanised iron and wood wall was forced out of position, a workman was…

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Fire Board Chief

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 6

At its meeting yesterday the Executive Council decided to re-appoint Mr. T. J. Smith, president or the Board of Fire commissioners for a…

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Hotel Fire Charge

The Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 22

Henty, Wednesday. -- Arthur John Lawson, 32, was committed for trial to-day, on £600 bail, on a charge of having maliciously set fire to the…

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Adventures of the Fire Detectives

The World's News · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 33

RECENTLY fire detectives hidden behind an office partition heard this amazing conversation. "I'll give you any kind of fire…

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Crane-place Fire. Damage More Than £15,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 14

Examination by assessors of the damage done in the fire which destroyed the upper portion of bulldings in Crane-place, city, on Friday, has shown (hat it was considerably…

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Five of Family Die in Fire New York

The Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 23

A mother and four of her children were burned to death and her husband and two other children were gravely injured at Baldwin (Long…

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Fat Lady and Pigmy Pigmy Eats Fire and Weighs 56 Lbs

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 11

Many and varied are the sideshows under the direction of. Mr. Arthur Greenhalgh at the Royal Roster Show…

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Fire in Steamer. Crew of 72 Rescued. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, March 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 17

The crew of 72 were rescued by lifeboat from the British steamer Mary Moller, in which a fire broke out when the vessel was off Holyhead on a voyage from India to…

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Fire at Burwood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 9

Fire broke out early this morning in the millinery shop and dwelling of Mrs. M. Frazer in Burwood-road, Burwood. No one was on the premises at the time, and the alarm was…

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Problem for Ambulance Fire Brigade Is Called To Aid

The Sun · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 12

Ambulance men and fire brigade officers to-day combined in solving the problem of bunging the body of a man who had been killed on the…

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Fire Rages in Factory 40 Brigade Men Turn Out

The Sun · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 9

Forty firemen were, late this afternoon, rushed to a fire which broke out in the Hafona cabinet works, behind Winn's store in…

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St. Gabriel's School for Boys. the Burden of a Fire

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 19

In 1784 Abbe Silvester, a disciple of Abbe do I'Appo founded a school for the deaf in Rome, and this in all probability was the first of its kind in Italy. The…

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Crash of 'Bus Kills 19 Fire Follows Collision New York

The Sun · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 9

At Salem (Illinois), 19 persons, including six women and a child, were killed when the tyre of a motor-'bus blew out and the vehicle collided with…

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