Topics of the Day. Fire Eaters
["The slogan 'Guns instead of butter' is still valid."— Herr Rudolf Hess, Herr Hitler's deputy.] Our slogan we reutter…
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1,947 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 98
Fire in Shop. Believed to Have Been Started by Thief
A fire broke out under a counter in Lakin's grocery shop in Cowper-street, Waverley, last night, and did damage to stock and fittings. Fire brigades from Waverley and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Serious Bushfire. W.A. Group Settlements. PERTH
A bushfire, which swept through Group Settlements 45, 46, and 47, caused about £3000 damage to about 12 holdings. Many acres of pasture, hay stacks, out-houses, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →News of the World Told in To-day's Cable Messages Late Final Madrid's Phone Girls Cool Under Fire Extra Back to Duty: No Faltering Scientist Says Bombs Will Not Win a Gay Sherry Party Madrid
MADRID takes its bombing and shelling calmly. Raids and artillery attacks were made in both the morning and the afternoon. The shelling resulted in three hits on the telephone skyscraper…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire Fighters Save Homes
For over six hours yesterday a large squad of firemen fought a bushfire, which threatened three homes, at Dobroyd Point…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Test. England's Blaze of Glory. Robins's Sparkling Innings. MELBOURNE
The end came peacefully just after one o'clock this afternoon. England did not so much expire with a smile of resignation on her lips, as blow up…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Girl on Fire in Street
With her clothing a mass of flames, Alma Pettit, 19, ran screaming for 100 yards along Kelly Street, Matraville, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clothes on Fire. Girl Severely Burned
Alma Pettit, 19, of Kelly-street, Matraville, was severely burned when her clothes caught fire while she was tending a fuel stove at her home yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Destroys Business Centre Perth-
Practically the whole of the business centre of the wheatbelt town of Bruce Rock, was destroyed by fire to-day. The blaze started following…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Acid Branding Better Than Fire-Iron System
TRIAL tests and inspections made by a sub-committee of the Victorian United Cow Test Association substantiated all claims…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in W.A. Business Premises Destroyed. PERTH
Five business premisto, which included a picture theatre, were destroyed by fire at Bruce Rock to-day. The damage is estimated at £7500. Bruce Rock is about 200 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Business As Usual. Madrid Under Fire. London, Jan. 7
Aerial bombardments of Madrid, supported by artillery shelling yesterday, resulted in the Telephone Building, Madrid's skyscraper, being hit three times…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woman's Clothing on Fire Ran Out Of Home; Collapsed In Street
SEVERELY burned when her clothing caught are in the kitchen of her home in Kelly Street, Matraville, yesterday afternoon, Alma Pettit, 19,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Trapped in Fire Girl Slides Down Post to Safety Perth
TRAPPED by flames in an upstairs passage, four men and a girl had amazing escapes from death at Bruce…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Distillery at Bundaberg Re-building On Site Of Fire BRISBANE
Plans have been approved for a new distillery at Bundaberg to replace one recently destroyed by fire. The new distillery of brick and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Trapped in Fire Tamworth
TRAPPED in a bedroom When her home in Queen Street, Barraba, caught fire early this morning, Mrs. Condren, 88, wife of John Condren…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britons Hurt by Bombs Embassy Set On Fire MADRID
THREE incendiary bombs from rebel aeroplanes fell on the British Embassy today. Two of the inmates were slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Alarm for South Cessnock Cessnock
The Board of Fire Commissioners has approved of the installation of a fire alarm at the intersection of Jeffries Street and Mount Vincent Road, South Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood, Fire and Blackout Strange Sequence To Smash
Voted the oddest accident in many years was a crash with a train of consequent events that occurred when a Lynn, Massachusetts, florist…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Signal Hut
A fire occurred in a signal hut between Tempe and Arncliffe about [?] o'clock last night. Considerable damage was done before the Arncliffe Fire Brigade subdued the outbreak…
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