Thirteen Girls Die in Glasgow Fire Trapped By Flames In Big Store Dramatic Rescues by Brigades, Policeman
Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3
LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perished in spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…
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Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3
LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perished in a spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…
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Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3
LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perished in a spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thirteen Girls Die in Glasgow Fire Trapped My Flames In Bog Store Dramatic Rescues by Brigades, Policeman
Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3
LONDON, Thursday.-- Trapped by flames, 12 girls perishea in a spectacular blaze which swept Grafton's store in Argyll Street, Glasgow, yesterday. Thousands of horrified spectators watched…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£300 Storage Shed Blaze
Daily Mirror · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 2
A storage shed containing eggs and machinery valued at nearly £300 was destroyed by fire this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£300 Storage Shed Blaze
Daily Mirror · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 2
A storage shed containing eggs and machinery valued at nearly £300 was destroyed by fire this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rockets Burst Above Shop Fire In London
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 3
LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). —London firemen reported to-day that star shells, rockets and magnesium flares burst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Race Track Blaze
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1
NEW YORK, Fri. -- Fire destroyed the 5,000,000 dollars Hollywood Park racetrack at Inglewood, California early today. Firemen saved 600 thoroughbred horses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eureka Film Lacks Fire
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 8
Ealing's second Australian film, "Eureka Stockade," has exciting action fine pictorial sweep -- an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →600 Horses Escape Course Fire
Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 3
NEW YORK, Saturday.--More than 600 valuable racehorses were saved from a fire which swept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Devastates Racecourse Stand 600 Fear-Crazed Horses Saved Anti-gambling Crank Blamed
Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 3
NEW YORK, Saturday.--More than 600 valuable racehorses were saved from a fire which swept through the lavish Hollywood Park racecourse at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Devastates Racecourse Stand 600 Fear-Crazed Horses Saved Anti-gambling Crank Blamed
Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 5
NEW YORK, Saturday.--More than 600 valuable racehorses were saved from a fire which swept through the lavish Hollywood Park racecourse at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visiting Australians These Tears of Fire, by Clive Turnbull.—The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne. FRONTIER.—Same author and publisher
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 8
THESE slender biographies— they are about 50 pages each and printed in an edition limited to 500 copies—complete a series…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Policeman began fires through fear of dark
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 12
LONDON, Sat. -- Fear of the dark ruined the police-force career of Wilfred Waters, 22. Waters pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ship fires distress signals in gale; another ashore in bay
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1
Police and navigation authorities are trying to get in touch with an unidentified vessel that fired distress flares off Botany last night. The south-westerly gale which got the ship info trouble also:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Late News Boy Saved From Fire
The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1
A boy, aged 2½, slept alone in a Cronulla weatherboa[?] cottage while fire gutted a garage and laundry close by and destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Warships Fire at Airliner New York
The Sun · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1
A PAN-AMERICAN Airways' pilot has complained that the US Navy fired ack-ack shells at his plane. He says a task force of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ban on Cows Blamed for Bushfires
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 16
Mr. J. A. Small blames the local ban on cows for bushfires in the Palm Beach-Barrenjoey area. Mr. Small, a Palm…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Boots Blaze Behind Hotel Two City Fires Smoke Hinders Firemen
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 4
Dense smoke greatly hindered firemen called to two fires in the city yesterday. The most serious outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burglary, Fire Wake Sleepers
Daily Mirror · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 5
The incessant clatter of a burglar alarm, and explosions caused by a fire in a big switchboard, acted as unwelcome alarm clocks for some residents at King's Cross and Kensington shortly before 6 a.m…
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