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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 131

Bodies Recovered After Fire In Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 6

TADOUSSAC (Quebec), Wednesday. — Three bodies have been recovered from the smouldering wreckage of the 5000-ton steamer Quebec, which caught fire while steaming in the St. Lawrence River…

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Bodies Recovered After Fire In Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 7

TADOUSSAC (Quebec), Wednesday.—Three bodies have been recovered from the smouldering wreckage of the 5000-ton steamer Quebec, which caught fire while steaming in Hie St. Lawrence River…

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Fire Causes Damage in Paint Factory

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 4

Quick work by firemen this afternoon prevented a fire from spreading to thousands of gallons of paint at the American…

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McGir Coal Policy Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 2

The McGirr Government's ineffectual coal policy had deprived thousands of Sydney…

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Bodies Recovered After Fire In Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 7

TADOUSSAC (Quebec), Wednesday.—Three bodies have been recovered from the smouldering wreckage of the 5000-ton steamer Quebec, which caught fire while steaming in the St. Lawrence River…

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U.S. soldier is not the tough fighter he used to be G.Is. learn under fire in Korea

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 8

A story from U.S. correspondent Richard Johnston in Monday's Daily Telegraph said that G.Is. in Korea were mentally confused and that…

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Fire At Paint Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 14

An explosion in a gas meter is believed to have caused a fire which damaged the front section of the works of the American…

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Perfumed Soap Burns Bn Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- More than 75 factory workers ran from a blazing soap factory in South Melbourne when a…

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Perfumed Soap Burns in Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- More than 75 factory workers ran from a blazing soap factory in South Melbourne when a…

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Perfumed Soap Burns in Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- More than 75 factory workers ran from a blazing soap factory in South Melbourne when a…

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Perfumed Soap Burns in Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- More than 75 factory workers ran from a blazing soap factory in South Melbourne when a…

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Five Babies Die in Village Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 24

TIBERIAS (Palestine).--Five one-year-old babies were burned to death while their parents stood helplessly by in a fire in…

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Five Babies Die in Village Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 24

TIBERIAS (Palestine).-- Five one-year-old babies were burned to death while their parents stood helplessly by in a fire in…

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Five Babies Die in Village Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 24

TIBERIAS (Palestine).--Five one-year-old babies were burned to death while their parents stood helplessly by in a fire in…

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Five Babies Die in Village Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 24

TIBERIAS. (Palestine).-- Five one-year-old babies were burned to death while their parents stood helplessly by in a fire in…

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Japanese Firms Fire Communists

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 3

TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P).-- Japanese power-supply companies will dismiss 2000 Communist and Left-wing Radical…

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Wife "Set Fire to Garage"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--A detective said at Box Hill Court today that a wife told him she had set fire to a garage at her fireman- husbaad's home just to get him into trouble. Mrs. Iris Trevaskis. of…

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Arab Legion Cars Fire Across Border

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 1

JERUSALEM (JTA): Covering fire was provided by the Arab Legion in what was apparently an organised attempt to lead flocks…

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£100,000 Fire at Wool Store

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 August 1950 · page 4

Melbourne, Saturday. -- A fierce fire gutted, a wool store in, Little Lonsdale St. City, early this morning. Damage is estimated at £100,000…

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Wool Store Catches Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 August 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.— A fire early to-day caused £50,000 damage at William Haughton and Co. Pty. Ltd.'s…

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