These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 76
BRISBANE, Wednesday. --While Mrs. Irene Alice King was at a dance at Wynnum, her six-years-old son Jim was frantically trying to rescue his sisters Margaret (5) and Frances (3) from their burning home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--White Mrs. Irene Alice King was at a dance at Wynnum, her six-years-old son Jim was frantically frying to rescue his sisters Margaret (5) and Frances (3) from their burning home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--While Mrs. Irene Alice King was at a dance at Wynnum, her six-years-old son Jim was frantically trying to rescue his sisters Margaret (5) and Frances (3) from their burning home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Vain attempts by a boy, aged 8, to induce his two little sisters to leave a burning house were described in the Coroner's Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With tears in their eyes, Mr. Henry Travers, 76, and his wife, 75, stood in Woodville-road, Merrylands, on Saturday night and watched their home and everything they possessed go up in smoke. For 30 years they had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE Australian private in the Lae area has shown he can take it. The Japs had to shoot him three times before he called it a day and decided to retire dressing station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The 'issue' was indeed timely as two days previously my te[?]-mate and myself had the unfortunate experience of losing all our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday, Sept, 11 a weatherboard cottage of ten rooms, owner by Mr. Henry Mortimer Travers, at 136 Woodville Road. Merrylands was totally destroyed by fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage estimated £1200 was caused when a fire destroyed a garage, two cars, and machinery and tools in Copeland-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Two young children were burnt to death at East Ballarat tonight when the home of Mr. and Mrs. William…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I saw the patrol as I watched anxiously from a top floor window of an abandoned villa in the outskirts of Salerno, into which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Two young children were burned to death and four others were rescued when the home of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SPRING-TIME was recognised as the opportune moment for preparation in respect of the approach of the bush fire season, and it was up to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By Honorable J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., Chief Secretary. My previous article, "All Fires Are Sabotage," was aimed to coincide with the opening of spring. If spring has opened somewhat damply in certain areas, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Friday.—Many thousands of pounds' worth of machinery, timber, and fittings for ships was destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, Saturday.--More than £6000 damage was caused by Brisbane's worst fire for 15 years at Kangaroo Point last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Friday.--Machinery, timber, and fittings for ships valued at thousands of pounds, were destroyed in a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children were blamed for a fire which destroyed a large quantity of kindling wood at the Army Salvage Depot,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children were blamed for a fire which destroyed hundreds of tons of kindling wood at the Army Salvage Depot, Bourke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Children were blamed for a fire which destroyed a large Quantity of kindling wood at the Army Salvage Depot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →