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Fires & bushfires, 1950

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Sure Fire!

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 19

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Gold Blaze wins by nose

The Sun · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 12

Outsider Gold Blaze wan the fillies' Two-Year-Old Maiden Stakes at Canterbury today, but Keeborough, who ran third, was a certainty beaten. It was a photo finish, Gold Blaze (14 to 1) beating the…

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Gold Blaze Lucky for G. Podmore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 10

By winning the Two-Year- Old Maiden Stakes for fillies at Canterbury today. Gold Blaze (141) gave jockey G…

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Gold Blaze Lucky for G. P0dm0re

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 10

By winning the Two-Year- Old Maiden Stakes for fillies at Canterbury today, Gold . Blaze gave jocke G. Podmore…

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Gold Blaze Lucky for 0. Podmore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 10

By winning the Two-Year-Old Maiden Stakes for fillies at Canterbury today. Gold Blaze (141) gave jockey G…

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Gold Blaze Lucky for G. Podmore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 10

By winning the Two-Year-Old Maiden Stakes for fillies at Canterbury today, Gold Blaze gave jocke G. Podmore…

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Gold Blaze Lucky for G. Podmore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 12

By winning the Two-Year-Old Maiden Stakes for fillies at Canterbury today, Gold Blaze gaye jockey G. Podmore…

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Gold Blaze Lucky for G. Rodmore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 11

By winning the TwO-Year-Old Maiden Stakes for fillies at Canterbury today. Gold Blaze gave jocker G. Fodmore…

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Fire Destroys Hotel, Lodgers Escape

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Friday.— The hotel at Tooleybuc, near Swan Hill, was burned to the ground early to-day. Damage…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The burning Of VOLTURNO

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle round the burning migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of VOLTURNO

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle round the burning " migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star R0ll in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of the Volturno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help tossed in a circle round the burning migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of the Volturno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle round the burning migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of the Volturno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle round the burning migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of the Volturno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of the Volturno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle round the burning migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as, 70ft. flames belched…

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Oil Tanker Played Star Role in Epic Fire Disaster at Sea The Burning Of the Volturno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 5

ELEVEN rescue ships, powerless to help, tossed in a circle round the burning migrant ship Volturno in a raging gale in mid-Atlantic on the night of October 9, 1913. More than 3000 people lining the rails watched in horrified frustration as 70ft. flames belched…

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Camera for Gold Blaze

Truth · Sunday 9 July 1950 · page 21

The camera had to do some split-second clicking to separate placegetters [?] the opening event…

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Sandra's Weekend Diary Playmates sailed in Orion... Log fires at party

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 July 1950 · page 51

VISITORS who went on board Orion before she sailed for England yesterday afternoon included many children who farewelled young friends among the passengers…

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2 Saved From Sill in Blaze

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 6

Firemen rescued two men trapped on a first floor window-ledge this afternoon, when fire swept through the two-storey brick building of Sydney Milling Co., Pty. Ltd., flour…

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