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Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 135

Crown Jewels Theft; Two Charged W.A.C. Captain Implicated Arrested Before Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday. A Women's Army Corps captain and her husband, a colonel, have been charged…

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Crown Jewels Theft; Two Charged W.A. C. Captain Implicated Arrested Before Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday. A Women's Army Corps captain and her husband, a colonel, have been charged…

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Crown Jewels Theft; Two Charged W.A. C. Captain Implicated Arrested Before Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday. A Women's Army Corps captain and her husband, a colonel, have been charged…

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Crown Jewels Theft; Two Charged W. A. C. Captain Implicated Arrested Before Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday. A Women's Army Corps captain and her husband, a colonel, have been charged…

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Crown Jewels Theft; Two Charged W.A.C. Captain Implicated Arrested Before Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday. A Women's Army Corps captain and her husband, a colonel, have been charged…

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HERO Chicago fire dogs award CHICAGO

The Sun · Sunday 9 June 1946 · page 9

A HERO of the La Salle Hotel fire early Wednesday morning received award for bravery…

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Stole royal jewels; missed fire WASHINGTON

The Sun · Sunday 9 June 1946 · page 1

WHEN detectives arrested the American colonel and his WAC captain wife who stole the German royal jewels, they probably saved them from burning to death…

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Honeymoon Couple Killed in Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday.--A honeymoon couple are among the 14 dead in the fire which gutted the Canfield Hotel, Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday. THEY missed the life-nets which…

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Another Awful U.S. Hotel Fire

The Sun · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Sunday.--There were terrible scenes when a fire gutted the six-storey Canfield…

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Honeymoon Couple Killed in Big Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 19

NEW YORK, Monday.--A honeymoon couple are among the 14 dead in the fire which gutted the Canfield Hotel, Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday. THEY missed the life-nets which…

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25 Dead In Second American Hotel Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.). -- Twenty-five people are believed killed in a fire which destroyed a four-story section of the Canfield Hotel at Dubuque (lowa) today…

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Fifteen Dead In New U.S. Hotel Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 9 (A.A.P.).—Fifteen people are known to be dead and it is feared that others may have perished in an early morning fire which destroyed the six-storey Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, [?]owa…

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Boxer Saves Family From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.-- Jack Sharkey, ex-heavyweight champion of the world, last night rescued a family trapped by…

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Boxer Saves Family From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.-- Jack Sharkey, ex-heavyweight champion of the world, last night rescued a family trapped by…

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Boxer Saves Family From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.-- Jack Sharkey, ex-heavyweight champion of the world, last night rescued a family trapped by…

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Boxer Saves Family From Blaze

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.-- Jack Sharkey, ex-heavyweight champion of the world, last night rescued a family trapped by…

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Panic Took Heavy Toll In Hotel Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 10 (A.A.R).—Panic, it is now realised, took nearly as many victims as fire in the Canfield Hotel tragedy at Dubuque, Iowa, in the week-end, and also in the gruesome fire at the La Salle…

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Air Service Pact Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 5

ROME, Tuesday.-- The new Anglo-Italian air pact "puts British Government meddling directly into Italian internal…

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98 Believed Dead in Two U.s. Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 9

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.-- It is feared the death-roll in the disastrous Canfield Hotel, fire may reach 37. It is known that 15 are dead and…

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Woman's Face Put In Fire, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Following an attack upon a woman who was alleged to have been battered on the head and body…

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