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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1924

1,078 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 54

Lines Fail. Tree Dislocates Traffic. Lightning Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 October 1924 · page 6

A tree was struck by lightning during a storm in the vicinity of Harden at an early hour yesterday morning. The probability is that it was not the only three that meet the…

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Storm Centre Off the Coast Shipping Warned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 October 1924 · page 6

A tropical disturbance has developed off the New South Wales coast and over the Tasman Sea, and Mr. Mares last night warned shipping of it by…

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Dam Overflows Temora Streets Flooded TEMORA

The Sun · Monday 6 October 1924 · page 8

A thunderstorm passed over Temora yesterday, the thunder and lightning being severe. The rainfall registered was 81…

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Floods in India. Widespread Damage Simla, Oct. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 October 1924 · page 7

As the telegraphic communications are being restored the gravity of the flood situation is becoming more known. Forty villages and the suburbs of Delhi have been…

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Wheat Crops Storms and Locusts TAMWORTH

The Sun · Tuesday 7 October 1924 · page 12

Reporting to the October meeting of the Tamworth Pastures Protection Board, Stock Inspector Wollett stated that during the preceding month a fair…

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Terrific Storm Destroys Crops Albury

Evening News · Tuesday 7 October 1924 · page 8

A terrific storm in the Lookhart district caused serious damage to crops. In places six inches of rain fell. Some crops, which on…

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Cyclonic Storm Damage in Queensland Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 October 1924 · page 6

News has been received from [?]fracombe, Central-western Queensland, that a cyclonic storm passed over the town at 5 on Sunday evening, and did…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damage at Ilfracombe Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 October 1924 · page 13

The Deputy Postmaster-General has been advised that a cyclonic storm at I[?]racombe on Sunday afternoon did considerable damage. It unroofed several dwellings. The…

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Gale Warnings

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 October 1924 · page 3

Information has been received by the British Chamber of Shipping that arrangements have now been made with the Air Ministry for the amplification…

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Golf in a Gale "Giants" in Tournament How They Fared London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 9 October 1924 · page 1

A gale and tho rain-soddon golf course played havoc with the form of the golfing "giants" in the second round of the "News of the World"…

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Damage to Crops. Sevoce Hall Storms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 October 1924 · page 11

The wheat crops in the vicinity of Lockhart suffered severe damage as the result of hailstorms during the…

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Cyclone of Death Many Lives Lost American Disaster

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 October 1924 · page 9

Houses were torn from their foundations and cities were plunged into darkness by a devastating windstrom, the worst exprerienced in America for…

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For Crosby Hall Women Graduates Produce Two Plays--"Everyman" and The Deluge"--Success at Conservatorium

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 October 1924 · page 5

Sydney [?]lversity Women Graduates are making a big to secure their quota for the Crosby Endowment Fund and it was to augment this fund…

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(Published by Arrangement) Liquor Flood in U.S.A.

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 October 1924 · page 3

According to the Department of Justice, South Now York, including Now York City, takes first place in point of liquor saturation with a 95…

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Wireless in Lightning. How to Earth Your Aerial on Approach of Thunderstorm

The World's News · Saturday 11 October 1924 · page 20

Commenting on the firing of a wireless set fey lightning in a recent thunderstorm, the British Broadcasting Company states that a wireless aerial does not mean additional…

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Cyclone at Bathurst Trees Uprooted BATHURST

The Sun · Sunday 12 October 1924 · page 2

Bathurst was visited by a storm to- day which reached cyclonic force. Trees were uprooted and sheds unroofed…

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Caught by Storm Canoe Crew Drowned MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 12 October 1924 · page 2

Oswald Cornish (21) and his brother Athol Cornish (18), of Sebastopol, lost their lives by drowning in Lake Wendouree last night…

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Morality Plays "Everyman" and "The Deluge"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 October 1924 · page 11

Or Friday night, at the Conservatorium, an audience which filled the cosy hall to its utmost capacity witnessed the performance of two morality plays of past…

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Floods and Riots Death's Rich Harvest in India Grave Anxiety British Troops Called Out to Quell Serious Fighting

The Sun · Monday 13 October 1924 · page 9

Hindoo- Moslem riots throughout Northern India are causing the gravest anxiety to the authorities, and British troops have been called out. India's troubles have also been added to by disastrous floods, accompanied by appalling loss of life…

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Seventy Dead Floods Sweep Punjab CALCUTTA

The Sun · Monday 13 October 1924 · page 9

Appalling loss of human life, as well as the loss of many cattle and much property, has been caused in various parts of India during the…

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