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The world's biggest and longest-burning fire is in the heart of one of the richest industrial regions in America, at New Straitsville, Ohio. Nearly 60 years ago a spark from a steel-tipped miner's boot set alight to a few stray shavings, and then to a stack of timber pit-props. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"ABC WEEKLY" is again under fire following a disclosure in the Auditor-General's report that the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RAIDS by Manpower officers on restaurants and sporting clubs in Sydney savored of Gestapo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.--For five days and nights Allied air forces have pounded enemy Europe in a terrific non-stop bombing offensive. Great fires are raging across Europe, at points…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two babies were burnt to death in a tire which gutted a cottage at Mount Field, near Mittagong, today. They were Daphne Anne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two babies, Daphne Ann Richards, aged two years, and her sister Dulcie, aged nine months, were incinerated when a cottage at Mount Field, near Mittagong, was gutted by fire this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two babies, Daphne Ann Richards, aged two years, and her sister Dulcie, aged nine months, were incinerated when a cottage at Mount Field, near Mittagong, was gutted by fire this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thieves are suspected, of having started a fire yesterday aniong about 100 rubber surf plapes stored in a concrete room under the public…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two children, aged five and six, last night told police they started a fire yesterday which destroyed two garages, a car, and two sheds, and threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At a meeting of the Nepean Shire Council the President (Cr. W. Rose) reported that whilst the Council was on its tour of the Nepean River at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday.--Huge clouds of smoke were billowing above the German Baltic cities of Stettin and Rostock 10 hours after Tuesday night's great raid. In about 40 minutes over 150…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two fires broke out in unoccupied dwellings in Manly last night. A fire in a dwelling in Malvern Avenue was subdued before much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires badly damaged two houses in the Manly district last night. Both houses were recently demned by the Manly Council. At…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire which broke out in a concrete storeroom under the public dressing sheds at South Steyne, Manly, on Tuesday afternoon destroyed 250…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Profit of £70,138 was earned by the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. for the year to December 31, contrasting with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THEIR HOME DESTROYED by fire, this Kincumber (Gosford) family arrived in Sydney yesterday in clothes lent by neighbors. Mrs. Rudd has been allotted extra coupons to re-clothe her family, but says she will have difficulty in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.-- When a single pilot flew to Stettin yesterday to reconnoitre damage done in the big R.A.F. raid on Tuesday night, he found a column of smoke five miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELONG, Thursday.—The town's seventh fire in three months broke out in the main business premises of Adelong to-night. Hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Members of the C.I.B. arson squad and Detective-Sergeant McNeil are investigating fires which broke out within a mile of each other at Manly on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Christopher Metcalfe, 36, was charged with maliciously setting fire to clothing etc., property of his wife. Const. Scott stated that on the 13th…
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