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Floods & storms, 1912

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More Wrecks. Terrific Gales Raging. Unknown Steamer Sunk. All Hands Lost

Evening News · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 8

LONDON, Friday Evening.—Another terrible shipping disaster has occurred off Swansea, in consequence of the violent gales that are raging over Great Britain…

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Wild Weather. Gales and Loss, Oe Life. Steamer on the Rocks. Fifty-three Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Evening.--A lifeboat followed for five hours the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, belonging to the Hall Line. Ltd., Liverpool, which was drifting helplessly before…

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Violent Weather. Gales in Britain. a Terrible Shipwreck. Fifty-three Lives Lost. London, Jan. l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 17

During the gale which swept over Britain a lifeboat followed the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, for five hours, until the tide, which was like a maelstrom, dashed the steamer…

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Terrific Gales in England—great Loss of Life

Sunday Times · Sunday 21 January 1912 · page 14

During a gale which swept over Britain daring the week a lifeboat followed the steamer Wistow Hall, 3314 tons, for live hours, until the tide, which was like a maelstrom, dashed the steamer on the rocks at Bullers…

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Caught in a Gale. Barque Damaged. Hove to for Days

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1912 · page 10

The French barque Touraine, which arrived at Port Jackson yesterday from Philadelphia, encountered very severe weather after passing the Cape of Good Hope, the wind blowing with…

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Terrific Gales in England

Globe · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 2

The above picture gives some idea of what a gale means on the English cosst. A wave is shown breaking over the Marine Parade at listings. All last week England was swept by a…

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Dave Smith and Cyclone Thompson on Anniversary Night

Referee · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 7

Next Friday night we will have tho pleasure of witnessing at the Stadium what should prove a great fight. Cyclone Johnny Thompson and Dave Smith are to meet again. They fought…

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A Dead Man at the Wheel. In a Howling Gale a Motor-car is Steered into a 25ft. Deep Stream. Horror of Crowd Waiting Low Tide. Surrounded with Mystery

Globe · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 1

A man rusted breathlessly in to Wisbech, a small town in the English midlands, early one morning last month with the news that he had been the top of a large headed motor car…

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Boxing. Dave Smith v "Cyclone" Thompson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 10

The return match between Dave Smith and "Cyclone Johnny" Thompson will be decided at the Stadium tonight. The men met last season, and after a contest which went the full term Smith succeeded in obtaining…

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Floods in England a Submerged Town

Evening News · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 8

LONDON, Thursday Evening.—Extraordinary rains have been experienced in the Thames Valley. The [?] of the town of Maiden[?], in…

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La Boxe. Taxes Paris by Storm

The World's News · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 16

PARISIANS have taken very seriously to boxing. This does not mean that nowadays Parisians put their fists up at every street…

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SKILL v. Persistence. Dave Smith Beats Thompson "The Cyclone" Outpointed

Evening News · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 10

As Dave Smith outpointed Bundsman Rice, and the latter beat Cyclone Johnny Thompson comfortably on points, a natural conclusion, by quite primitive reasoning, was that Smith…

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Steamer's Ill Luck Hillcrag's Career. Storms, Mutiny, Grounding. Port Pirie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 15

There are probably few vessels afloat that have met with so many misfortunes as have befallen the steamer Hillcrag, which will sail from Port Pirie for Sydney to-morrow. The…

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Paris Fight-mad. La Boxe Takes Gay City by Storm. Sport Threatens to Replace "La Savate."

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 3

Parisians have taken very seriously to boxing (writes the Pails correspondent of the "Express"). I do not mean to say that nowadays Parisians put their fists up at…

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Thames Valley Flooded. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 15

Extraordinary rains have tallen over the Thames Valley. The streets in Maidenhead are submerged, and hundreds of cottages are isolated…

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Heroine of Flood. Drowned After Saving Boy

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 2

Miss Sarah Howells, a teacher of Glamorgan, was drowned in the River Ogmore just after she had rescued one of her pupils from the flood. The boys were playing football in a field near the…

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Extraordinary Rains. Flood the Thames Valley

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Evening.--Extraordinarily heavy rains have fallen in the Thames Valley. The streets at Maidenhead, Berkshire, were…

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Scattered Thunderstorms and Showers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 16

A fow light to moderate showers have been recorded, the result in most cases of thunderstorms which have been recorded along the northern border districts. Mogil had 69 points…

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Flight in a Gale. Airman's Notable Ascent. San Francisco

The Sun · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 8

Lincoln Beachey, the American airman,made a remarkable flight in Los Angeles yesterday, when, during a gale that was blowing at the rate of 50 miles an hour, he…

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The New Flagship. List of Officers. Midshipmen Once More. Powerful in a Storm at Sea

Evening News · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 6

COLOMBO. January 14.—H.M.S. Drake, the new flagship, having relieved H.M.S. Powerful at Colombo, is now on her way to Robert, under the command of Captain E. F. Bruer…

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