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Floods & storms, 1929

1,949 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 98

Floods Not Likely Great Relief North Coast Safe Rainfall in West

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 1

The prospect of floods on he North Coast has been considerably relieved, as the crotonic disturbance is moving eastward end…

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World's Champion Who Never Claimed the Honor "Cyclone Johnny" Thompson Entitled to Crown His Fight with Mehegan

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 3

JOHNNY THOMPSON, better to known to the Australian boxing fans of twenty years ago as "Cyclone Johnny," is the one fighter who really held a championship and never claimed it. Just why Johnny never insisted on recognition of the middleweight…

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"Flooded Out" Ratepayer's Plight "When the Rain Stops"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 10

There are many people waiting impatiently for a break in the present rainy weather. H. Hampson is one of them. Last Monday he complained to Cabra…

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Coursing Storm Liverpool Incident

Evening News · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 9

A COURSE between two dogs at the Liverpool Club's meeting at the [?]field [?] to-day provided more [?]…

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POP Any Port in a Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 25

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Prince Flies in Braved the Storm

Evening News · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 1

The Prince of Wales flew from London to B[?]d to-day to attend the Scouts jamboree, in weather that was considered too bad for Mr. Ramsay…

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Flooded Pastures Planting Fodder Grasses in the Silt

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 10

A number of dairy farmers on flat, low-lying country have availed themselves of the N.S.W. State agrostologist…

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Weddings. Waring-flood—heath

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 4

The marriage of Miss Dorothy Bodies Heath, of North Sydney, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cornish Heath, of Wagga, to Mr. Lewis Roland Woring-Flood,…

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Saddle Slipped Cyclone's Costly Mishap Duchlight Easily

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 August 1929 · page 8

RARELY is a horse beaten through its gear becoming loose during the running of the race. That however, was the contributing fact to the poor display…

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Light Flood Darlinghurst's White Way

The Sun · Sunday 4 August 1929 · page 5

Within four months, it is expected, Darlinghurst's White Way should be an accomplished fact…

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"The Deluge."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 13

In an address in the Australian Hall on Sunday evening, under the auspices of the Catholic Evidence Guild the Rev. W. Laws referred to the great flood as described in…

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Diplomatic Flood Swamps the Hague LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 1

The delegations to the reparations conference poured in rill day long, and practically everybody has now arrived says The Hague correspondent of…

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Flood of Print for the Electors New Labor Campaign at £1 Per Union

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 10

In the week that remains before the Federal session an intensive campaign against the abolition of the Federal Arbitration Court is to be…

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Cyclone's Saddle Slipped Good Thing Came Undone: Favorites Beaten Stewards Cancel Apprentice's Permit

Referee · Wednesday 7 August 1929 · page 6

Looked upon by his connections, and also by a great number of the racegoers, as the best of good things in the first division of the Rosebery Encourage Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, Cyclone shattered his backers' hopes when his saddle became loose during the running of the race, and spoilt…

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The Catholic Evidence Lecture: "The Deluge"

The Catholic Press · Thursday 8 August 1929 · page 16

The fifth of the 1929 series of Catholic Evidence Lectures was delivered in the Australian Hall on Sunday night last, August 4, by Rev. Father W. Laws, C.SS.R…

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"The Deluge" : Rev. Father W. Laws' Catholic Evidence Lecture

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 August 1929 · page 22

THE fifth-and last, but one-of the 1929 series of Catholic Evidence Lectures at the Australian Hall, Elizabeth-street, City, was entrusted on…

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Gale Blows Schooner Ashore at White Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 August 1929 · page 18

Presumed to have broken her moorings during a gale, the 64-ton auxiliary schooner Paroto, ran ashore at White Island (off the New Zealand coast) on Wednesday" night. The picture shows the vessel at her usual anchorage…

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Floods in China. Shanghai, Aug. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 August 1929 · page 16

The floods near pekin, caused by the overflowing of the Yellow River, which a few days ago were confidently expected to subside, are now assuming serious proportions, as the…

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Was He Lost? Trader and Cutter in Storm

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 August 1929 · page 2

According to passengers on the Mataram, which arrived at Sydney yesterday, it is believed that disaster has befallen Mr. D. M. Lazarus, a trader, who…

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Storms, Strife and Crook Work Threaten Rugby League's Future It Never Rains But It Pours Country Chiefs Defy Headquarters in Phillips Case Players Pirated in Bare-faced Fashion

Truth · Sunday 11 August 1929 · page 5

WHO would have predicted a season or so back that the Rugby League's very existence would be threatened by internal disputes and crooked happenings? Yet that is the position to-day; the most rabid…

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