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Fires & bushfires, 1950

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Britain's Move Under Fire By Americans

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--"You can't compromise with evil," said Democrat Representative Gannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee…

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Britain's Move Under Fire By Americans

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--"You, can't compromise with evil," said Democrat Representative Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee…

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Britain 's Move Under Fire By Americans

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON,Saturday. --" You can't compromise with evil, "said Democrat Representative Cannon,chairman of the House Appropriations Committee…

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Prairie Fire, Define Favorites Experienced in 2-yr.-old races

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 31

Experienced two-year-olds Prairie Fire and Define are clear-cut favorites for the two-year-old races at Moorefield today…

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Five Children Die In Blaze

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 39

NEW YORK, Saturday.—Five of a family of 12 children were burnt to death today when their home at Missoula…

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Cycles go up in truck blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 16

A TRUCK carrying seven motor-cycles and 39 tyres blazes fiercely after it caught fire on Geelong Road, Laverton (Vic.), this week…

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32 Die in Big Hospital Fire Davenport (Iowa)

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 1

THIRTY-TWO women are believed to have died in a fire in the Davenport Mercy Hospital early today. Nineteen bodies have been…

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Many Patients Die As Fire Sweeps Mental Ward Of U.S. Hospital

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (A.A.P.).—Nineteen women patients died in a fire which swept through the mental ward of the Mercy Hospital at Davenport (Iowa) to-day. Thirteen others are missing, believed burnt to death…

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Blaze Guts Boot Firm

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 4

Firemen from six stations fought for 30 minutes early this morning to control a fire which…

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Blaze Guts Boot Firm

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

Firemen from six stations fought for 30 minutes early this morning to control a fire which…

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Blaze Guts Boot Firm

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

Firemen from six stations fought for 30 minutes early this morning to control a fire which…

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Blaze Guts Shoe Firm

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 14

Firemen from six stations fought for 30 minutes early this morning to control a fire which…

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Puzzle of Blaze at Hospital

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 6

NEW YORK, Monday.--Cause of a fire which resulted in the deaths of 38 women in a mental hospital…

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Puzzle of Blaze at Hospital

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 6

NEW YORK, Monday. -- Cause of a fire which resulted in the deaths of 38 women in a mental hospital…

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Scrubland Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

Brigades from Gordon and Hornsby were called about 2 p.m. today to fight a fire on 40 acres of scrubland at Tambroon…

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Scrubland Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

Brigades from Gordon and Hornsby were called about 2 p.m. today to fight a fire on 40 acres of scrubland at Tambroon…

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Six Dead In U.S. Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday.--A mother, her two children and an adult baby-sitter perished yesterday in a…

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Six Dead In 2 U.S. Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday.--A mother, her two children and an adult baby-sitter perished yesterday in a…

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Six Dead In 2 U.S. Fires

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday. -- A mother, her two children and an adult baby-sitter perished yesterday in a…

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Jockey Fires Shot At Bandits After Being Robbed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 1

Two men, one holding a pistol, held up the well-known jockey, Jack Thompson, and his wife in their home in Denning Street, Coogee, late last night and ransacked the housem taking…

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