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Floods & storms, 1913

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The Texas Floods. Thirteen Lives Lost. Feeding Flood Prisoners

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 13

DALLAS, Texas, Thursday Evening. -- Thirteen people have lost their lives as a result of the floods. The rain continues, and numbers of people…

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Floods in America. Great Loss of Life. Travellers' Queer Plight. Dallas (Texas), Dec. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 21

Thirteen bodies have been recovered from the flood waters in the Colorado River. The rain has not yet ceased. Numbers of victims of the flood in Belton…

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Heat Dispersing. a Cool Change. Numerous Thunderstorms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 24

The big heat wave, remarkable owing to its persistent and extensive character, has at last been vigorously checked by a decided southerly change…

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Daisy Jerome Psychological Cyclone-clairvoyancy and Dolls

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 December 1913 · page 22

It would be impossible to discover any ontological laws that…

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The Produce World. the Egg Market Excites Interest Christmas Turkeys Scarce the Market Flooded with Inferior Fruit

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 December 1913 · page 2

The long-continued dulness and the quite unseasonable condition of the egg market is exciting the keenest interest. Not in the commercial remembrance of either buyer or…

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Cool to Mild Temperatures. Scattered Storms

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 December 1913 · page 14

A remarkable change has taken place in the aspect of the weather conditions. In place of the burning heat reported from day to day from all over New South Wales, cool to mild…

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Snow Storms and Floods. American Visitation. a Night in the Tram-cars

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 December 1913 · page 12

DENVER, COLORADO, Friday Evening:--Terrific snow storms are raging over the American Rocky Mountains. The streets of Denver are covered by 6ft. of…

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Storms in America. Great Falls of Snow. Traffic Suspended. Denver (Col.), Dec. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 December 1913 · page 9

Terrific snowstorms are raging in the Rocky Mountain districts. The streets of Denver are covered with snow to a depth of 6ft, and traffic is…

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"Storm Centre." Scenes at Cootamundra. (From Our Special Reporter.) Cootamundra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 December 1913 · page 12

All eyes were turned on Cootamundra, where it was expected the Premier would have the fight,of his political life. The day was an ideal one, and there were…

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Townspeople Marooned. a Texas Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 December 1913 · page 12

BRYAN, Texas, Friday Evening.--Brazos River has overflowed its banks, and thousands of people have in consequence been marooned, and are suffering from cold and hunger…

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Terrific Heat. Birds Fall Dead. a Cyclone Follows. Winton (Q.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 December 1913 · page 10

The heat wave culminated on Saturday afternoon in a cyclone, which did a good deall of damage: The balcony and verandah of the Imperial Hotel were damaged, and the…

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Disastrous Floods in Texas. Vast Tract of Country Inundated

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 9 December 1913 · page 4

A deluge of rain lias fallen in Texas, U.S.A., and a vast stretch of country two hundred miles long by one hundred miles broad has been…

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Floods in Texas. Five Hundred Drowned. London. Tuesday Morning

The Sun · Tuesday 9 December 1913 · page 8

Fearful floods have occurred in Texas, and as a result 500 people have been drowned, 20,000 are homeless, and thousands more are starving…

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League Swimming. a Storm in a Tea-cup

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 December 1913 · page 16

The last meeting of the League was principally occupied in considering the affairs of the Randwick and Coogee Club, whose financial position has already been reviewed in this…

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Floods in America. Houston (Texas), Dec. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 December 1913 · page 19

A hundred and fifty persons have been drowned as a result of the floods on the Brazos River. The water is now abating, and further loss…

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The Texas Floods. 150 People Drowned. a Thousand Marooned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 December 1913 · page 9

HOUSTON, Texas, Monday Evening. -- Many lives have been lost in Brookshire district as the result of the Brazos River floods. It was at first stated that 20 people had been drowned,…

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"Missed the Cup." Scow's Voyage. Buffeted by the Gales. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 December 1913 · page 9

"I meant to be in Melbourne in time to see the Cup, but I have only got into port to-day." So said Captain A. Sommer, of the sailing boat Zingara, to an acquaintance who…

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Dust Storm. Eighty Sheep Smothered. Dreadful Scenes. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 December 1913 · page 12

Mr. A. N. Paynter, who has just returned from a motor trip to Yalpunga, towards the Queensland border, states that during the journey the full force of a terrible dust…

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Gloomy and Unsettled. Thunder on the North Coast Heavy Rain at Glen Innes

The Sun · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 4

The prospects of the weather in the city, and suburbs today is for a continuance of the unsettled conditions which 'have, persisted during the preceding few days…

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A Dust Storm. Smothers Eighty Sheep

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 14

Mr. A. N. Paynter who has just returned to Broken Hill from a motor trip to Yapunga, towards the Queensland border, states that during the…

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