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Floods & storms, 1936

1,260 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 63

WAITING ! Flood Terror In U.S. New York

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 1

NEARLY half a million inhabitants of Cincinatti are awaiting in a state of terror as the floodwaters, rushing down the valley of the Ohio River, bear down upon, the city which runs from the banks of the river to an amphitheater of hills…

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Disease Menace After Flood U.S.A. Relief Army Inoculated Against Typhoid: Curfew Rings New York

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 3

SPECIAL precautions are being adopted to guard against the spread of disease in flooded areas of the United States, and 2500 relief workers have been inoculated against typhoid before being, allowed to…

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Storm of Life

The World's News · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 1

YUN FAN was as white a Chinaman as any man in the islands knew, and his son, educated at a Sydney…

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Shipping Delayed by Gales. Conditions Moderating

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 13

Although the gales that have swept the central and north coasts during the past few days moderated slightly yesterday, shipping again had to fight rough to high seas. The…

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Storm Washes Penguin Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 1

ALMOST EXHAUSTED and very much afraid, this baby penguin was nursed back to normal after the cyclonic storm of yesterday had washed him up on Bondi Beach…

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Shipping Still Is Affected Cyclone Moving Away From State Heavy Seas

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 5

ALTHOUGH shipping schedules are still considerably affected by the cyclonic activities on the northern New South…

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Disastrous Floods in U.S.A. Worst in Nation's History

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 18

The worst floods in the nation's history overwhelmed the eastern section of the United States last week, causing death and destruction over a wide area. The…

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U.S.A. Floods Tragic Losses. Menace of Epidemics. New York, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 14

With the exception of the Merrimac River and a few rivers in Maine, the flood waters are receding rapidly throughout the eastern section of the United States…

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Delayed by Flood

The Sun · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 1

It was explained at the G.P.O. today that the mail in question was delayed for two days owing to the flooded condition of the Longreach…

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U.S. Flood Toll Millions To Pay In Ohio Valley New York

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 4

AS the floods recede from the inundated eastern States, stocktaking shows that 172 lives were…

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Cyclone Moving Out to Sea Shipping Soon Back to Normal

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 4

Cyclonic conditions have now considerably abated along the coast, and shipping services should be' back to normal within a day or two. The…

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N.Z.'s TURN Storm In North AUCKLAND

The Sun · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 27

A terrific north-east cyclonic gale struck the province to-day. doing extensive damage. The Meteological Office issued a storm warning,…

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Miss Nancy Bird Flight to Queensland Flood Bound Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 12

MISS NANCy BIRD, the young aviatrix attached to the New south Wales Far west Children's Health Scheme at Bourke, went to…

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U.s.a. Floods

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 4

Australia, no doubt, experiences floods, earthquakes and droughts, but with the greatest imagination we cannot properly visualise the extent of the chaotic conditions that are at present prevailing in almost the whole of the…

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The Show Flood of Entries Building Rush Record Probable

The Sun · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 27

HOUSING problems which would have puzzled even Noah are cropping up at the Showground to accommodate the…

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Plane Used in Floods Shearers Difficulties Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 7

Fifteen miles south of Windorah, in the Quilple district, flood waters from Cooper's Creek are running miles wide. Pilot Moody is…

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Flood Of Motor Bills In U.S.A.

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 5

ACCORDING to advice received [?]the N.R.M.A., New York motorists are facing a flood of bills dealing with motor vehicles and their…

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Auckland Swept By Cyclone AUCKLAND

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 2

AT the height of another of the gales which has made this summer remarkable in New Zealand, a sea swept through a…

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Gale Fury Sleeper's Shock N.Z. Hurricane Auckland

The Sun · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 17

A GALE of hurricane force capsized the little shack in which H. Smith slept and rolled it over several times until it…

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Storm-delayed Vessels Arrive Three Days Late

The Labor Daily · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 14

Another two of the large fleet of vessels delayed by the recent cyclone on the Queensland coast arrived In Sydney yesterday, three days late…

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