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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 131

Rescue Bid Fails at House Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 21

In a frantic bid to save a three months-old baby last night, a man chopped through the wall of a blazing weatherboard Manly cottage only to be…

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Rescue Bid Fails at House Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 21

In a frantic bid to save three-months-old baby last night, a man chopped through the wall of a blazing weatherboard! Manly cottage only to be…

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Rescue Bid Fails at House Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 21

In a frantic bid to save a three-months-old baby last night, a man chopped through the wall of a blazing weatherboard Manly cottage only to be…

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Rescue Bid Fails at House Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 21

In a frolic bad to save a three-months-old baby last night, a man chopped through the wall of a blazing weatherboard Manly cottage only to be…

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Rescue Bid Fails at House Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 21

in a frantic bid to save a three-months-old baby East night, a man chopped through the was of a blazing weatherboard Manly cottage only to be…

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Man, Two Sons Perish Cottage Fire At Manly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 1

A man and his two young children were burnt to death when fire destroyed their weatherboard cottage in Buckingham Street, North Manly,…

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FATHER, 2 Sons Die in Fire Cottage tragedy

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 1

A young returned soldier and his two baby sons were burned to death in their Manly cottage last night…

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T.B. victim's heroic bid to save baby in Manly fire

The Sun · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 7

An incapacitated ex-sailor's heroic bid to save baby Gregory Charles Bassett from a tragic death by fire at Manly last night, may have succeeded if his strength had not failed…

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Desperate Bid to Save Child Fails Three Burned To Death In Cottage Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 5

In a frantic bid to save a three- montbs-old baby last night, a man chopped through the wall of a blazing weatherboard Manly cottage only to be…

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Desperate Bid to Save Child Fails Three Burned To Death In Cottage Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 5

In a frantic bid to save a three-months-old baby fast night, a man chopped through the wall of a blazing weatherboard Manly cottage only to be…

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Fire Hazard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 18

THERE should be more supervision of the materials from which children's toys are made. Children playing…

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Fire Hazard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 18

THERE should be more supervision of the materials from which children's toys are made. Children playing…

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Fire Hazard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 18

THERE should be more supervision of the materials from which children's toys are made. Children playing…

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Fire Hazard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 18

THERE should he more supervision of the materials from which children's toys are made. Children playing…

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Fire Hazard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 18

THERE should be more supervision of the materials from which children's toys are made. Children playing…

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Fire Hazard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 18

THERE should be more supervision of the materials from which children's toys are made. Children playing…

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Police Allege Boys Began Fires at Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 15

LITHGOW, Tues.--Police yesterday afternoon arrested Three boys on charges of having attempted to set fire to two collieries and with having…

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Fire destroys shoe factory

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 15

Fire gutted the Clinton shoe factory. Silver Street, Marrickville, about 7.30 a.m. yesterday and destroyed shoes worth about…

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Russian Fighter Fires on Unarmed U.s. Plane

The Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday. -- An unarmed US Navy patrol bomber was fired on by a Russian fighter over Latvia last Saturday and presumably shot down. Russian version of the affair, contained in an official protest to the US, is that the…

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Russians fire on U.S. bomber Intercepted "Over Red Territory"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.--The Russians admitted today that a Red Air Force fighter fired on a U.S. bomber which has been missing since Saturday with…

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