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Floods & storms, 1927

1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 94

Newcastle Flood Scenes--corpus Christi Celebration

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1927 · page 1

DISCUSSING DECENTRALISATION.--Delegates from the New England, Northern and North-Western districts of New South Wales, after attending a meeting at Newcastle, when decentralisation was discussed, spent the week-end inspecting the export facilities of Port Hunter. Picture shows the delegates after a civic reception in the Newcastle Council Chambers. The…

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Western Australian Gale. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 12

The damage done by Friday's storm to buildings in Perth, Fremantle, and suburbs is…

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Storm Sequel Footpath Block Council Tardiness

Evening News · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 16

A LETTER to the "News" reveals an extraordinary se[?]uel to the cycle[?]ic storm which awept Sydney on April 18…

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Schooner Abemama. Driven Ashore in Gale. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 9

During one of the fierce squails of a 70mile gale which raged along the coast on Friday night the three-masted schooner Abemama was driven ashore near the site of…

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Toll of the American Floods Work of Rehabilitation is Stupendous Task Six Hundred Thousand Homeless Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 5

Owing to the floods, over 600,000 persons are homeless in the United States. They are under the care of the Red Cross Society A conference, of State Governors will consider the…

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Gales in Tasman Sea. Makura's Damage. Two Rivets Strained. Wellington (N Z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 16

A diver has examined the steamer Makura which had a stormy passage from Sydney to Wellington, and found that two rivers had been badly trained. The vessel is to be…

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Mississippi Floods. Engineering Problem. Enormous National Expense

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 10

Long ago in the glacial period—and the Mississippi is much older than that—the St. Lawrence valley was blocked by an icy mass and the Great Lakes on the border between…

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Victorian Cyclone. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 15

The damage caused to private property in the Bungare[?] district by the cyclone which passed through the district in a few minutes on Sunday night has been estimated at £6100…

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Withstood Fury of Cyclone War Service Homes at Cairns

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 9

One of the results of the cyclone which recently swept Cairns was that it proved the stability of the War Service homes erected there…

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Priests and Nuns in Mississippi Floods. Sisters Help Red Cross

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 37

While Catholic churches, missions and schools are suffering heavily at many points in the roaring flood which is devastating much of Arkansas, the heroism…

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More Floods. in United States. New York, June 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 11

A fresh occurrence of floods has done heavy damage to sections of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas, and to the wheat regions of Kansas. The last-named were most…

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Cream of Prices Not for Them N.s.w. Dairy Farmers "Merely Existing" How Local Market Is Flooded

The Labor Daily · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 5

DAIRY farmers generally are discontented with conditions which prevail within the industry, and i maintain that until such…

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Flooding Electorates New Avenue for the Unemployed Fears of the Opposition

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 3

Resentment was expressed at Parliament House last night by members of the Opposition at the possibility of the Government flooding certain…

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ANOTHER U.S. FLOOD Harvest is Stopped in Three Regions Many Towns Isolated Kansas City

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 5

A fresh outbreak of floods has damaged seriously sections of the Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas wheat regions. Kansas was hit…

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Electors Addressed Prospective Candidates Local Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 4

A large number of members and supporters of Merrylands branch of the Nationalist Association, gathered at the School of Arts, on Monday night, June…

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After the Flood Mississippi Inundations the Task of Clearing Up

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

Rehabilitation work has already started in the inundated Mississippi Valley areas, and the United States Secretary for Commerce…

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Flood Relief

The Sun · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 10

The Erina Shire Council has obtained £500 for "flood relief" from the Local Government Department. The council asked for £10,000…

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Midsummer Day in England Belies Its Name Rain and Gales Cricket Abandoned London

Evening News · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 1

MIDSUMMER DAY was marked by westerly gales over England, accompanied at first by much rain…

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Books of To-day and To-morrow "The Lovely Ship," by Storm Jameson. (London, Heinemann; Sydney Dymock's 56)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 23

Miss Storm Jameson, who is really Mrs. Guy Chapman, and a co-managing director of a London publishing firm, comes of a family whose history is…

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Tivoli Follies Storm !

The Sun · Sunday 26 June 1927 · page 35

Soon we will have them with us.-- the Tivoli Follies of 1927. On and after July 18 the second half of the Tivoli programme will be given over The sandstorm in "The Sheik" is worked with large fans blowing over barrels of bran. Betty Ross Clarke-- she is the super- dramatic interlude…

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