Men Lost Earnings in Fire Outbreak In Factory At Alexandria Damage of £500
EXTENSIVE damage to roofing and plant was caused by a fire which broke out in the enamelling department at Metters Ltd.'s factory,…
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Real Fire Followed Test Blaze in Model House Adelaide
After most, police and scientists had left the scene, a fire, which had been started in a reconstructed single…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Old Man Falls in Fire; Burned to Death
WHILE his wife dozed in a rocking-chair opposite him, a man aged 95 fell into the fire at his home yesterday, and was burned to death. He was Walter James Crampton,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Experiment That Led to Serious Fire Adelaide
Although it had been supposed that the fire in the one-roomed house used in the reconstruction of the fire in which a woman's charred remains…
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Early yesterday, in the biggest fire in the Huon district, five shops were totally destroyed at Port Cygnet. Spreading from the store of C. W…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"S.o.s." From Ship on Fire Montevideo
A British steamer, reported to be the Barrhill (4972 tons), from Glasgow, sent out an urgent call for help when fire broke out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tragic Death of Old Man. Fall Near Fire. Clothes Ignite. Blind Wife Could Not Help
A 95-year-old man, Walter James Crampton, of Cranbrook-street, Botany, met a tragic death in his home yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ready ! Present ! ! Fire !!!
Rent- fixing legislation is contemplated by the Government. John Taxpayer:-- "Here's a couple more shells to fire at the gas bag. Tubby."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Linen Factory Fire
Linen goods worth £30 were destroyed when a Are occurred in F. H. Stivens's factory in Mount Street, North Sydney, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country News. Cottage Destroyed by Fire. Ardlethan
The weatherboard cottage occupied by [?] A. Allen, on his farm at Kamarah, was destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning. Th[?] [?]ouse was well alight when the three smal[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Time Lost in Gazing at Fire Sights People Forget to Call Brigade
IN honor of Mr. W. H. Beare, deputy Fire Brigade chief, who was their speaker, members of the Rotary Club at their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire, Injuries, Gales and Hunger on Trawler's Voyage Feast Upon Wharf Fresh Food After 81 -Day Trip Crew's Perils
WHEN 14 men, many of them Australians and New Zealanders, signed on aboard the trawler, St…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ballarat Fire-bug Is at It Again Old Couple in Danger As Homes Blaze Up Melbourne
JUST 24 hours after his last effort, the Ballarat firebug struck again in Dana-street at 2 a.m. to-day, endangering the lives of an elderly man and woman. They had to fight their way to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fighting Fires. Sydney Equipment "Among World's Best."
The Deputy Fire Officer (Mr. W. H. Beare), in an address to the Rotary Club yesterday at David Jones', stated that the fire-fighting equipment of the brigades in the metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →High-speed Fire-fighting
Mr. W. H. Beare, deputy chief of the Fire Brigade, told the Rotary Club yesterday that in 12 seconds the great pump engine, known as "The Filer," could be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trawler Arrives. Hardships of Voyage. Food Shortage, Rats, and Fire
The trawler St. Lolan, which has been bought by the Red Funnel Trawler Co., Woolloomooloo, arrived in Sydney from Fleetwood, near Liverpool, early yesterday morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Trawler Dogged by Bad Luck Three Months Trip FromEngland Fire Aboard
MANY hardships were experienced by the crew of 14 of tbs Red 'Funnel Fisheries new trawler, St. Lolan. on her voyage' from England…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Likes to Attract Other Men Married Woman Plays with Fire (Dorothy Dix--Copyright)
Dear Miss Dix,-- I am happily married, and have a nice home, but am still interested in other men. I like to flirt a little and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →New Fire Station
The public are cordially invited by the firemen and the organising committee to be present at the official opening of Merrylands' new fire station on…
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