Brothers' Clothing in Flames Injured In Petrol Blaze EXPLOSION
WITH their clothing in flames and suffering bums which extended from their heads to their feet, two brothers flung themselves from their…
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Fire-bug Suspected Melbourne, Thurs
A fire-bug is suspected Of having been responsible for a conflagration. which early to-day threatened the township of Lancefield and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →White-hot Fire Enlivens Quay
People dashed for cover when the burner of an acetylene cylinder exploded and a 20ft. flame burst from it at Circular Quay last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Racquet Factory Gutted By Fire
Premises occupied by the Walbow Racquet Company, in Alfred Street, Mascot, were destroyed by fire last night. It was a single-story building of brick…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Mascot. Factory Damaged
The Walbow Racquet Company's premises in Alfred-street, Mascot, were practically destroyed by fire last night. Two men were at work in the single-storied building stringing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Black-out for Romeo Theatre Fire At Parramatta
As Romeo and Juliet kissed on the screen at the Astra Theatre, Parramatta, this afternoon the curtains on the stage burst into flame…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Elaine De Chair As Heroine of Fire London
MISS ELAINE DE CHAIR, who spent several years of her girlhood in Sydney when her father was Governor of New South Wales, and whose engagement to Mr. R. J. A. Hamer, of Fawley (Hampshire), Was announced a few…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney Will Glitter with Myriad Lights Brilliant Fireworks for Coronation Giant Royal Portraits To Be Limned In Fire Spectacle on Harbor
A MYRIAD jewels of light, glittering like diamonds or glowing with the colors of the ruby and the emerald, will outsparkle the stars over Sydney on Coronation Night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Window Starts Fire
NEW YORK, April 7.--Reflected sunlight through a window pane at the Union Appliance electric shop here ignited a drape inside the store, firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Youth Injured While Fighting Fire
FALLING from the roof of a burning house in Alexandra Street, Westrnead, yesterday afternoon. Clive Malvern Cox. 15. of Railway Parade…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Giant Airship Destroyed by Fire
A picture of the airship Hindenburg, which was destroyed by fire with the loss of 33 lives at Lakehurst airport, New Jersey, yesterday. This photograph, taken as the airship cruised above the Olympic Stadium at the opening of the Games in Germany last year, gives an idea of the size of this 812ft. dirigible…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Audience Sees Real Stage Fire
An audience of 600 at the Astra Theatre, Parramatta, yesterday saw a fire on the stage destroy £500 worth of material…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Post Office Fire. Elderly Woman Dies from Burns. MELBOURNE
Mrs. Mary I., Miller, 79, of Strathewan, died in the Royal Melbourne Hospital to-night from burns received when the Strathewan post-office was burnt on May 1. Her husband…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Serious Fire in Theatre Wild Stampede By Audience For Exits Man Burned
CRIES of "Fire!" which rang out during a matinee at the Astra Theatre, Parramatta, yesterday afternoon, culminated in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"We Have Just Started In The Diesel Age" New Era of Fuel Economy Eliminating Fire Hazards From Air Travel
STEADILY and impressively the Diesel engine is penetrating Australian industry. Already it is well represented in bus and freight work in the Commonwealth; a move is under way for powering milking machinery; and the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Control of Bushfires. Comprehensive Plan Urged
The adoption of comprehensive plans to prevent and check bush and pasture fires this season was urged by Mr. J. B. Cramsie, who was at one time a member of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Firemen Called to Bushfire Serious Outbreak On Mountains Strong Wind Katoomba
FOR three hours this afternoon the Katoomba firemen, aided by volunteers and local police, fought a big bushfire about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Fire Over England" "Truth's" Pictorial Preview of a Big Production
(Below) LAURENCE OLIVIER appears as Michael, son of Sir Richard ngelby, lieutenant of the English Navy under Admiral Drake…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Fire over England Our Film PAGES....Of The AGE And The WEEK
PIECE by piece, the film is shaping the history of England. There are many gaps. There is a jump from Richard the Lionheart to Henry VIII. But the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sensational Action Follows Brisbane Donnybrook Black Devil Was Minus Fire and Brimstone But His Poor Backers Breathed It Cheeky Micawber Didn't Wait, but Went
BACKERS began badly at H.P. meeting last night, when the South Australian dog Black Devil was always a hot favorite for the Maiden Stake. He drew No. 1 box. but was never a possibility, finishing a poor fifth. in doubt, as he won easily from Somebody's Fault and Hilda Micawber…
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