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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 125

Mystery fires probed

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2

Arson squad detectives are investigating two fires which occurred within two hours of each…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2

Arson squad detectives are investigating two fires which occurred within two hours of each other in the Hotel Burlington, Hay St., City, late last night…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2

Arson squad detectives are investigating two fires which occurred within two hours of each other in the Hotel Burlington, Hay St., City, late last night…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2

Arson squad defectives are invest gating two fires which occurred with two hours of each other in the Hot Burlington, Hay St., City, late last nigll…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2

Arson squad detectives are investigating two fires which occurred within two hours of each other in the Hotel Burlington, Hay St., City, late last night…

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Police Probe Hotel Fires

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2

Arson squad defectives are investigating two fires which occurred within two hours of each other in the Hotel Burlington, Hay St., City, late last night…

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Suicide by fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 18

NEW YORK, Friday.-- A man found burned to death yesterday is be- believed to have…

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Suicide by fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 18

NEW YORK, Friday.-- A man found burned to death yesterday is be- believed to have…

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Suicide by fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 18

NEW YORK, Friday.-- A man found burned to death yesterday is be- believed to have…

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Suicide by fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 18

NEW YORK, Friday.-- A man found burned to death yesterday is be-believed to have…

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Suicide by fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 18

NEW YORK, Friday.-- A man found burned to death yesterday is be- believed to have…

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Flight Through Fire Barrier

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 1

AN ARMY motor-cyclist makes a spectacular flight through a flame barrier during a display rehearsal at Catterick Camp, England, last week. The display, Northern Command Tattoo, will take place next month…

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Fire-eater in City Store

The Sun · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 8

A fire-eating magician appears in a circus opening at Walton's today. Harry Keon eats fire…

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Liquid Fire May Yet Run

The Sun · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 31

Liquid Fire, who has been troubled by sore fore feet, may yet start in the Warwick Farm…

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Doubts On Liquid Fire Start

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 12

Last-start winner Liquid Fire was very lame in the off foreleg last night, and is most…

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Where the Fire King Reigned

The Land · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 28

ATKIAMA, for the second time in a distance of seventy miles, the Illawarra Railway reaches the seaward fringes of the land…

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Man Guilty in Fire Ease View on police

The Sun · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 8

Alfred William Hunter. 39, rigger, of Cowper St., Granvidlle, was found guilty on…

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Doubt on Liquid Fire for W.F. Flying Golf Course Trial Decides

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 36

Liquid Fire today will have his final test for tomorrow's Warwick Farm Flying Handicap (6f.) at Kensington golf course. Liquid Fire has been lame since his win in the Flying…

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Hotel Fires Accidental

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 6

Detectives of the C.I.B. Arson Squad believe two fires which broke out within two hours at the Hotel…

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Hotel Fires Accidential

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 6

Detectives of the C.I.B. Arson Squad believe two fires which broke out within two hours at the Hotel…

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