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Floods & storms, 1916

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Black Tuesday Coal Strike and Thunderstorm Dark Shops and Domestic Difficulties

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 November 1916 · page 2

You never know what you can do till you try and often you can't do it then. If you had tried to match a delicately-shaded ribbon in a Sydney shop last Tuesday while the…

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Damage by Storm Yass

The Sun · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 2

A heavy storm passed over the Yass district on Saturday night, driving down crops and damaging buildings and orchards. The hail cut the leaves off the trees and herbage…

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Super-zeppelin. Wrecked in Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 7

Amsterdam reports state that a new super-Zeppelin has been completely wrecked at Mainz. Travellers from Monich report that in the storm of November 21…

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Riverina Crops. Rain, Hail, and Storms. Difficulties of Travel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 5

Mr. H. M. Somer, secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, returned to Sydney towards the end of last week, after a trip, lasting nearly a fortnight, through the…

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Storm at Yass. Much Damage to Property. Yass

Evening News · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 5

A [?] rain storm passed over the [?] Saturday evening, shortly [?]The roof of a homestead at [?] by the [?]…

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Saturday's Storm. Man Killed Bt Lightning. House Struck at North Sydney

Evening News · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 2

The thunderstorm in the city on Saturday afternoon was particularly severe. The lightning was exceedingly vivid, and the thunder deafening. The wind came from the…

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A Cool Change Heavy Thunderstorms Some Big Rainfalls

The Sun · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 3

City Forecast.-- Fine, south -east winds. New South Wales Forecast.-- Unsettled to showery on coast, and highlands, fine in the west; cool southerly winds, strong…

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Severe Thunderstorms. Man Killed by Lightning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 10

A severe thunderstorm passed over the city on Saturday afternoon at about 5 o'clock. There were several exceedingly vivid flashes of lightning, and a number of deafening peals…

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Storm at Tarcutta Damage to Crops

The Sun · Tuesday 28 November 1916 · page 4

Tarcutta was visited on Saturday evening by one of the heaviest storms on record. Hailstones in large, jagged lumps fell, shearing the leaves off the trees and breaking off…

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Cricket and the Storm

Referee · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 12

When the thunderstorm broke over Sydney and suburbs on Saturday I was at the Sydney Cricket Ground, where the fall of rain was phenomenal. It was the heaviest I have ever…

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A Melbourne Storm—and Other Topics

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 15

Mascot of the—Reinforcements. The soldi[?]corporal Bugler Norman. The photograph was taken at a New South Wales camp. Hailstones in Swanston-street, Melbourne…

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The Weather. Storm in the Metropolis

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 9

Antarctic, influences resulted in a rapid change in the weather during November 21, when a heavy storm passed over the city and suburbs. The clouds worked up from…

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Effect of a Wind Storm at Drummoyne, near Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 46

The violent storm which broke over Sydney and suburbs on the afternoon of November 21 was responsible for damage being caused in several places. The wind at times attained a velocity of 50 miles an hour. The roof of Aiding and Overall's motor garage in Bridge-street, Drummoyne, was torn off by the wind, and lifted bodily on to the overhead tram wires in Bridge-street (as the picture shows)…

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Interstate Turf News of the Week Victoria, Queensland & SOUTH & West Australia Concluded at Last V.R.C. Spring Meeting Ends in Heavy Rain

Referee · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 4

The weather was exceedingly sultry on Saturday morning, but before the afternoon was through a severe thunderstorm, broke over the Flemington racecourse and drenched the crowd…

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Deluge of Shells. Unceasing Duel on Western Front

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 November 1916 · page 3

The Franch artillery was engaged in preparing the way for an infantry attack, writes Mr. H. Warner Allen, one of the official press representatives with the British forces on…

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Cyclone in India London, Thursday Night

The Sun · Friday 1 December 1916 · page 1

A Reuter message from Madras states that nearly 300 were-killed by a cyclone at Pondicherry. Great damage was done to the city, which la without light. The telegraph…

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Cultivation. Crop Reports. Damage by Rust and Gales

The Land · Friday 1 December 1916 · page 11

Berry.—The showers of rain which recently fell in this district have had a beneficial effect upon the maize and other crops…

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