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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 113

Police Believe Fire-Bug Active

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

Police believe that a fire-bug tried last night to destroy property at Leichhardt Mr. Gordon Gill, whose home…

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Timber on Fire Firebug Sought

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 3

A firebug tried to burn a stack of timber at Leichhardt last night. Flames from the stack could have swept…

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Didn't Reach The Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 5

THIS FIRE ENGINE, on its way to a fire at Rose Bay Convent, became jammed between a tram and bus. It swerved, mounted the footpath, and crashed through the fence of a house in Tivoli Avenue, Rose Bay. No…

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Seven Brigades Battle City Blaze Wentworth Av. Outbreak Thousands of Pounds Loss

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 5

A SPECTACULAR fire early this morning gutted the two top stories of Ballarat House, in Wentworth Ave. Damage estimated at thousands of…

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Fire Threat To Cottages

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 August 1948 · page 5

A fire which broke out last night at the works of Wiles and Schott, electro-platers, at Camperdown,…

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Thieves Set Fire to Car

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1948 · page 2

FIREMEN WERE CALLED to extinguish a blaze in this car at Dover Heights this morning. Thieves had taken the car from (he garage of Mr. Gregory Board, air line operator, Military Rd., Dover Heights, and driven to Kimberley St., Dover Heights. The thieves tried to Push the car over the cliff, bat it became caught, and they then…

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Thieves Set Fire to Car

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 August 1948 · page 2

FIREMEN WERE CALLED to extinguish a blaze in this car at Dover Heights this morning. Thieves had taken the car from the. garage of Mr. Gregory Board, air line operator, Military Rd., Dover Heights, and driven to Kimberley St., Dover Heights. The thieves tried to push the-car over the cliff, hut it became, caught, and they then…

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Hot Fires Burned Behind Coed Exterior of Infamous Emperor Daily Mirror Special Feature The Story The Emperor TIBERIUS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 9

WHEN Augustus Caesar choose his adopted son Tiberius, whom he hated, to be his successor as Emperor of the Roman Empire for the lack of a better heir, he is said to have muttered in an aside: "Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly."…

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Hot Fires Burned Behind Cold Exterior of Infamous Emperor Daily Mirror Special Feature The Story Of The Emperor TIBERIUS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 9

WHEN Augustus Caesar chose his adopted son Tiberius, whom he hated, to be his successor as Emperor of the Roman Empire for the lack of a better heir, he is said to have muttered in an aside: "Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly."…

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Hot Fires Burner Behind Cold Exterior of Infamous Emperor Daily Mirror Special Feature The Story Of The Emperor TIBERIUS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 9

WHEN Augustus Caesar chose his adopted son Tiberius, whom he hated, to be his successor as Emperor of the Roman Empire for the lack of a better heir, he is said to have muttered in an aside: "Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly."…

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Hot Fires Burked Behind Cold Exterior of Infamous Emperor Daily Mirror Special Feature The Story Of The Emperor TIBERIUS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 9

WHEN Augustus Caesar chose his adopted son Tiberius, whom he hated, to be his successor as Emperor of the Roman Empire for the lack of a better heir, he is said to have muttered in an aside: "Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly."…

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Hot Fires Burned Behind Cold Exterior of Infamous Emperor Daily Mirror Special Feature The Story Of The Emperor TIBERIUS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 9

WHEN Augustus Caesar chose his adopted son Tiberius, whom he hated, to be his successor as Emperor of the Roman Empire for the lack of a better heir, he is said to have muttered in an aside: "Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly."…

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Hot Fires Burned Behind Cold Exterior of Infamous Emperor Daily Mirror Special Feature The Story Of The Emperor TIBERIUS

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 9

WHEN Augustus Caesar chose his adopted son Tiberius, whom he hated, to be his successor as Emperor of the Roman Empire for the lack of a better heir, he is said to have muttered in an aside: "Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly."…

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Home Built by Couple Gutted by Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

Left: Home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Rouse, Horsley Rd., Panania, which was gutted by fire today. They built the…

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Home Built by Couple Gutted by Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

Left: Home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Rouse, Horsley Rd., Panania, which was gutted by fire today. They built the…

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Home Built by Couple Gutted by Blaze

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

Left: Home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Rouse, Horsley Rd., Panania, which was gutted by fire today. They built the…

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Costly Furniture Damaged in Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 2

VALUABLE furniture, including a grand piano, was badly damaged in a fire in Mr. Rudolph Emanuel Sossal's…

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Man's Death in Cottage Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 4

A 68-years-old man, who was burned to death last night, is believed to have been making a frantic effort to escape from his blazing cottage when he was overcome by…

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Man's Death in Cottage Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 4

A 68-years-old man, who was burned to death last night, is believed to have been making a frantic effort to escape from his blazing cottage when he was overcome by…

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Man Dies in Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 2

THE GUTTED REMAINS of a weatherboard cottage in Mart St., Ealmain, in which Francis Patrick . Joseph Staplcton (68), pensioner, was burned to death last night. Cause of the fire in unknown…

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