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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 143

Baby's Fire Warning

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 2

LITHGOW, Thurs. -- Screams of a 10-months-old baby when his home caught fire awakened his parents early this morning. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. William McKeown…

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Baby's Fire Warning

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 2

LITHGOW, Thurs. -- Screams of a 10-months-old baby when his home caught fire awakened his parents early this morning. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. William McKeown…

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Plunge on Pure Fire. Hydrogen

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—A big plunge was made on Pure Fire and Hydrogen for the Doomben double at Beaudesert races yesterday when a total of £65,000 was secured from the…

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Inquest on Fire Smithfield Man on Trial

The Biz · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 12

A man had admitting setting fire to a neighbor's dwelling and had said the neighbor sold him a "house that was a bomb" and owed…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousands women girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening or December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening or December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

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Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

Continued on Trove, page 19 →

Flower of Chilean Women Died When Fire Destroyed a Church

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 19

THREE thousand women and girls, wives, daughters and servants of the proud Spanish-American aristocracy of Chile, crowded into the Jesuit church of Santiago on the evening of December 8, 1863. It…

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Sporting News Huge Plunge on Pure Fire Hydrogen In £65,000 Bets

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 8

BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Pure Fire and Hydrogen to-day were backed for £65,000 in the Doomben Ten Thousand and…

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Fire Damages Bakery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 4

Part of the Peerless Bakery, Military Road, Cremorne, was burnt yesterday, but no North Shore residents will go…

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Fire at bakery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 9

A fire last night damaged a section of the plant of Peerless Bakery. Military Road, Cremorne…

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Fire Destroys Lithgow Cottage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 5

LITHGOW, Thursday.— Fire early to-day destroyed a weatherboard house at Cobar Paddock occupied,by a young…

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Lax Droving Under Fire

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 1

BATHURST.— Drovers around Bathurst district were under fire in two quarter this week…

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Security to Probe Plant Fire

The Sun · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.--Supply Minister Beale said today the Security Branch was investigating…

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The Duchess Lit Her Fire Herself

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 1

THE Duchess was cold. She rang for her butler, and asked him to set a match to an already prepared fire. The butler bowed,…

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