American Girls Around the Camp Fire. Unusual Welcome for Hockey Players. One a Yachting Champion
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 12
AMERICAN women hockey players who arrived by the Mariposa on Sunday received a very enthusiastic welcome from the interstate and Sydney players who were in camp at Castlereagh for the week-end. Coo-ees, songs, and cheers greeted the visitors as they…
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The Sun · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 1
Three seamen were charged at Moss Vale court this afternoon with having early to-day maliciously…
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The Sun · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 6
Lighted cigarettes had been placed in a towel container on the Melbourne express, according to the Police Prosecutor in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Melb. Express Three Men Arrested
The Labor Daily · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 5
Three seamen were remanded to appear today at Central Police Court when they came before a magistrate at Moss Vale yesterday afternoon to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train on Fire. Passengers' Alarm. Three Men Arrested
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 13
Passengers, the majority of whom had been sleeping, had an alarming experience in the express train from Melbourne to Sydney at 3 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Train Fire: Charged Arrests of Paid Off Seamen Moss Vale
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 5
THREE seamen were charged at Moss Vale Court today with having maliciously set fire to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on Express. Two Seamen Remanded
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 7
Murdo Smith 45, and Sinclair Pottinger. 45. were remanded to April 28. when they appeared at the Central Police Couit yesterday on a change of having maliciously set…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 7
The smoking section of P. F. Riedent and Sons' bacon factory, at Wagga, was almost completely destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morning, The fire brigade, under Sub-station…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 3
PARIS, Friday.--Continued cold and rainless weather is wreaking havoc with the vineyards and orchards. Drought-stricken forests are burning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Fire at Wedding Party London
The Sun · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 5
A fire in the photographer's studio at Coventry yesterday, when bridesmaids' dresses caught ablaze, led to two bridesmaids dying in hospital…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 10
As a sequel to a fire in a photographer's studio at Coventry, where a bridal party was being photographed yesterday, two of the bridesmaids died in hospital after midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stop Press Fire in Workshop
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 1
Fire which broke out in saw dust in Beale & Company's workshop in Trafalgar Street, Annandale, was noticed in [?]ick of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car Strikes Pole. Four Persons Injured. Lights Put Out and Fires Started
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 7
Four persons were injured, four fires were started, trams were delayed, and lights were put out in hundreds of houses and shops last night, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Startling Series of Mishaps 4 Hurt, Blackout, 4 FIRES Car In Smash Brought Down Wires
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 1
GLARING headlights of a car resulted in an extraordinary series of mishaps at Manly last night, when two returned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Katoomba. Katoomba
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 11
The home of Mr. T. B. Bullock, one and a half miles on the north side of Katoomba, was destroyed by fire while Mr. Bullock, a returned soldier, was attending the Annac march in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Fire Kills 32 in Mysore Madras
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 3
THIRTY-TWO were killed when Mysore police fired on an Indian Congress meeting attended by 20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Animals Rescued by Firemen in City Blaze
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 12
A number of animals, including a donkey and a kangaroo, were rescued by firemen and helpers from the vicinity of a fire in Graham Lane, city, last night, when a two-storied tyre retreading and vulcanising works caught fire. The animals, which are hired by Mr. Leo Cracknell to film and theatrical companies, were terrified. Their cries soon attracted attention, and they were removed to safety…
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The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 7
The Sutherland Troop of the Boy Scouts requested permission to hold a Camp Fire on portion of Woolooware Oval on Thursday, 12th May. Will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Mill
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 3
Caused by a spark from machinery, a fire broke out in the blowroom at Bond's Mill on Thursday night. Prompt arrival by the local brigade, which was backed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blaze in City. Electric Shocks for Firemen. Animals' Panic
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 12
Firemen suffered electric shocks, some of which were so severe that they were hurled to the ground, when they fought a fire which last night…
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