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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

935 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 47

Is He a Storm Centre?

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 1

Mr. FARRAR. There are persistent rumors that Mr. Farrar's administration of the Labor Department has caused…

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In a Cyclone Houtman's Rough Trip Mountainous Seas

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 10

The steamer Houtman, which arrived to-day from Java, struck a cyclone after she left Brisbane, and for two days the wind howled, and the seas washed…

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Labor Minister "Not a Storm Centre" Premier Indignant

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 7

The Premier (Sir George Fuller) expressed indignation this afternoon at suggestions made in a morning newspaper that the Minister for Labor (Mr…

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Kirkwood in Form Record in a Deluge Leading in Big Field London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 7

J. H. Kirkwood, described by the "Daily Mail" as the "famous Australian," playing to-day in the first two rounds of the McVittie and Price…

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Upper Silesia Settlement Reached Storm Centre Disappears London

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 1

The final convention settling the affairs of Upper Silesia has been signed by the German and Polish plenipotentiaries…

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Passing of the Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 8

The stormy weather took off rapidly, and yesterday conditions were cloudy to overcast, but no rain was recorded. The seas, although still rough at a number…

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Caught in the Gale Rough Time Off Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 10

Running a day late, owing to the gale, the Dutch steamer Houtman arrived yesterday from Java, looking none the worse for her stormy experience off the coast. The…

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Born in Storm a Mother's Fortitude Trials on Schooner

The Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 6

Many are the trials and privations of a wife who elects to accompany her seafaring husband on his voyagings in a windjammer. The mate of the…

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The Rifle. Shooting in a Storm : Grade Match Finals

Referee · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 5

After a couple of months of fine and dry weather there was a break on Saturday last, and those who visited the Randwick ranee in the afternoon will…

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The Skipper's Son Born in Raging Storm Fight to Save Ship When "Hell Popped"

Evening News · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 1

For three days the [?] W. H. Smith, which [?] Frast on February 7, [?] a terrific storm…

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Thousands Rendered Homeless. D[?]strons Floods in Italy

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 May 1922 · page 4

Harrowing stories have been told of suffering of the victims of the floods at Corato (Italy). Corato had progressed rapidly from a tiny village…

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Spiritism or Spiritualism Praise for the Devil Evening News" Challenge Brings Deluge of Opinion

Evening News · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 6

The "Evening News" challenge to spiritualists to produce ectoplasm has attracted a crop of correspondents of viclently-conficting visws. In the following correspondence, the registration of mediums, like doctors and lawyers, is recommended; a medium attacks an ex-medium "St Anthony"…

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Breakfast in Bed. Blowing a gale. Raining pell-mell— Feeling quite draggled is Nancy O'Dell

Truth · Sunday 21 May 1922 · page 4

I don't know how you feel about it, but rain—not easy to put the thing quite clearly—rain woodens me. I know all that the poets say about whispering rain,…

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Army of 14,000 the Gathering Storm Unemployed and Basic Wage Is a Strike Brewing?

Evening News · Monday 22 May 1922 · page 5

Trades union circles are seriously disturbed over the Board of Trade's basic wage declaration. At the moment several conference are in progress, but the secrecy maintained so for only serves to partly camouflage the objective in view…

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Central Australia. Heavy Rains. Creeks in Flood. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 May 1922 · page 10

The expedition which was organised by Mr. T. M'Callum, M.L.C., to motor from Adelaide to Darwin has reached Alice Springs, the three cars having negotiated the formidable…

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Enter Piddington ! Besant=Leadbeater Case Theosophical Storm Fair Tribunal Wanted

The Sun · Tuesday 23 May 1922 · page 8

Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., has made a wholly unexpected entry into the Besant-Leadbeater controversy, which has been convulsing Theosophical…

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Makambo Delayed by Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1922 · page 13

The Burns' Philip island steamer Makambo, which left Sydney on Saturday, sailed from Lord Howe Island at 11 a.m. yesrerday for Norfolk Island. In a wireless message to Sydney yesterday, Captain Williams…

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The Flood-tide in Wool Values An Ideal Sellers' Market

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 24 May 1922 · page 28

The tide in the affairs of woolgrowers is at the flood which leads to remarkably good returns, and the tendency of values is still in their favour. The selling conditions are ideal, and excellent daily clearances are being made at the improved hvel recently established. Moreover everything points to a firm continuance of existing conditions, as the demand is increasing in keenness and in volume every week. PAGE after page of the week's catalogues have been…

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German Goods The Coming Deluge Prices Ridiculously Low Sewing Machine for 18s LITHGOW

The Sun · Saturday 27 May 1922 · page 6

AN inkling of what Australian manufactures will be up against after August it is provided in German catalogues which are…

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Moscow First! Australian Ideals Challenged Storm in the A.L.P. Opposition to Socialisation

The Sun · Sunday 28 May 1922 · page 2

The doctrines of the Moscow International replaced the principle of a White Australia in the A.L.P. objective as adopted by the Interstate Labor Conference held at Brisbane…

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