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Floods & storms, 1927

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The Weather Week-end Forecast Rain and Thunderstorm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1927 · page 4

The State Metcorologlst has issued the following special forecast of the weather throughout New South Wales during the week-end :-…

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The Floods Many Bodies Found Waters Subsiding

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1927 · page 7

The floods in Queensland have sub sided, and the bodies of many of those that were drowned have been recovered. The Queensland Government…

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Lismore Storm Wind Causes Damage Two Clouds Meet Lismore

The Sun · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

The sudden storm which swept over the district embracing the towns around Lismore last night played havoc for an hour, and then having…

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Abnormal Rainfall. the Wollongbar Deluge. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 12

The abnormal fall of rain in the Alstonville district was caused by the meeting of two thunderstorms. The centre of the cloud burst was at Wollongbar, midway between…

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Threw Chairs' Charge Against Wife 'Storms Over Trifles'

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 7

ALLEGATIONS that his wife on one occasion had thrown chairs at him, were mad by Eugene Cyril Washington Dudley,…

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Terrific Storm Fears for Fishermen Seward (Alaska)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 8

Fears are entertained for the safety of about 1000 fishermen aboard 150 vessels in the North Pacific, following a terrific storm which swept Alaska…

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Stormy Xmas Sailing Ship's Ordeal Woman and Girl Help Xmas Tree After Storm London

The Sun · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 1

The Norwegian sailing ship Skaregrom (1976 tons), with her timber cargo and hull intact, berthed at the Surrey Commercial Docks yesterday…

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U.S.A. in a Ferment Farm Bill Crisis Coolidge Faces the Storm Farmers Are Inflamed Washington

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 1

THE outstanding effect of President Coolidge's velo of the Form Relief Bill was the launching of the candidacy of Mr. F. O. Lowden for…

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Gales and Floods in Northern Queensland

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 10

Last week we reproduced a number of photographs illustrating the great damage…

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Gale in England. Children Marooned. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 15

England is being swept by a terrific gale, which at times reaches a velocity of 69 miles an hour. Many oversea liners have been unable to reach port. The Thames Valley is…

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75 Killed in British Mine Disasters[?] Blast and Deluge Tragedy in Many Homes Explosion Wrecks Welsh Pit Staging Collapses in Nottingham Poisonous Gas Adds to Horror London

Evening News · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 1

TWO simultaneous mine disasters—one in Monmouth and the other in Nottinghamshire—have brought tragedy into the homes of scores of minning folk, it being believed that the total deadth roll in both mines…

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Swept to Death Shaft Flooded Dancers to Rescue London

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 1

Fourteen miners are believed to be dead as the result of the flooding of a new shaft at Bilsthorpe pit, Nottinghamshire…

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Church Land Local Govt. Bill Opposition Storm

The Sun · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 15

After question time in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the House settled down to consider in committee the Local Government Bill, a…

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Swedish Convert Teacher. a Storm in Norway. Oslo, Norway, Jan. 2

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 34

The question as to whether or not a Catholic may remain at the head of a State school, which has been debated furiously in the press and pulpit, has…

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Floods and Cyclone Damage : Half a Million Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 9

At a meeting of citizens in the Town Hall to-day it was decided to inaugurate a fund to relieve the distress in the north caused by the…

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Another Cyclone? Queensland's Danger BRISBANE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

The Weather Bureau this morning issued a warning regarding the formation of a cyclonic disturbance nort-east of Broad Sound and south-east of…

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Gale's Fury Helpless Vessels Lightships Astray New York

The Sun · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

As the result of a terrific storm that swept the Atlantic yesterday, nine vessels are helpless. Two ships went ashore, and among…

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Nine Ships in Distress Atlantic Gale Steamer Breaking Up New York

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

NINE vessels are known to be in difficulty owing to a gale sweeping the Eastern seaboard. The British freighter Davie, which…

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Atlantic Storm Nine Vessels Adrift One Passenger Liner New York

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

Two vessels are aground and seven others are helpless as the result of a storm which swept the South Atlantic on Wednesday night…

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The Weather Week-end Forecast I[?]ain and Thunderstorm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

The State Meteorologist has issued the following special forecast of the weather throughout New South Wales during the week-end:—…

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