Courtney Forced Down: Will Resume Flight Lands in Spain Battle with Gale Slows Up the "Whale' Millionaire's Son As Passenger London
Evening News · Monday 5 September 1927 · page 1
CAPTAIN Frank Courtney, who left Plymouth yesterday in an attempt to fly westward across the Atlantic, via the Azores, was forced by bad weather and bead winds to land at Corunna, Spain, at 7.15 last evening. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Moving Away Sydney's Cyclone
Evening News · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 9
A CYCLONIC disturbance has caused the present unsettled donditions in Sydney. Conditions are expected to return to normal by to-morrow, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Here and There Gale in Tasmania
The Sun · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 7
Hobart, Tuesday.--Wild weather was experienced at Hobart during the week-end. The wind was terrifying early yesterday morning, and attained…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Good Gallops, Despite the Heavy Rain Boxing a Lightweight From America Pilkington's Debut
Evening News · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 2
AN American [?]weight who [?] here under a big guarantee, has his first Australian fight at the Sydney Stadium to-morrow night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Ruin. Mississippi Area. New York, Sept. 5
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 11
The Secretary of Co[?]morce (Mr. Hoover), returning to the Mississippi flood regions for the first time since July, was greeted by scenes of trade paralysis and ruin…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tunney Favorite Flood of Dempsey Money Chicago
The Sun · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 5
Gene Tunney is still a 7 to 5 on favorite for his fight with Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight title. A flood of Dempsey money is coming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thousands Suffer Mississippi Floods Ruin Farmers Outbreak of Disease New York
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 3
At least a half of the country which was inundated by the Mississippi floods in July last is now unfit for farming. The owners are bankrupt, and 60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Atlantic Gale. Airmen Delayed. the Westward Flight. London. Sept 6
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 15
There has been no abatement of the had weather which prevailed on the North Atlantic yesterday. This morning's reports show that westerly winds are blowing at a velocity of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"FRISCO" McGALE Defeats O'connor Negro Clever, but Not Rugged
Referee · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 10
"Frisco" McGale treated the durable Canadian, Mike O'Connor, to a boxing lesson in the 15 two-minute round bout at Sydney Stadium on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rain and Driving Wind Best Storm for Two Months
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 3
Sydney awoke yesterday to the music of steady rain; to swirling gutters and dripping roofs; and driving winds. It was the first real storm for over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forty Perish in Storm Coast of Nova Scotia Swept for Several Days HALIFAX
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 5
It is feared that forty lives and two schooners of a fishing fleet have been added to the toll by the recent storm which swept the coast of Nova Scotia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
The Sun · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 6
Heavy rain in Otago last night caused floods in the Taierl Valley, and 50 yards of the railway line were washed out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →League Storms Little Powers' Stir Disarmament Demand Protocol Again: Britain's Worries Geneva
Evening News · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 11
"THE PROSPECTS of the Eighth Assembly of the League of Nations have changed dramatically from sunshine to storey. Herr Van Blokmann inauguarated the change by making an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storm Looms League and Arms Empire United Dutchman Causes Stir Geneva
The Sun · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 10
When the Dutch Foreign Minister (Jonkheer van Blokland) launched the disarmament question he throw a bombshell into the Assembly, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Priest Serving Marsh Folk a Flood Hero. Isolation Makes Him Doctor, Coroner, Etc. New Orleans (U.S.A.), July 24
Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 11
A SURGEON'S white operating gown has become the cassock of the village priest on this island surrounded by the murky waters of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Murrumbidgee. Request for Flooding. Commission's Refusal. Hay
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 13
Notification has been received from the Water Conservation and [?]rrigation Commission that it in impossible to flood the river lands below the Burr[?] reservoir…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Flood of Fire Burning Wax Swamps Factory
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--When a vat of boiling wax, caught fire at a wood-stain and boot-polish factory, belonging to William Fisher Pty., Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms in the Judicial Tea-cup Piddington Inquiry Discourtesy" Alleged
The Labor Daily · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 7
WICE yesterday short but sharp passages at arms occurred between Mr. Justice Edmunds, chairman the Piddington Royal Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Battered Vessel Crawls Into Port Terrible Ordeal
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Leaking badly, and with sides encrusted with marine vegetation and barnacles, the five-masted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SAILER'S S.O.S. Rescued by Steamer Dismasted in Storm London
Evening News · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 14
DISMASTED and leaking bodly after a bulletting in a narrific gale in the Atlatic the America barquen the E. R. [?]ing, bound from…
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