Sixty-Mile-An-Hour Gale Fierce Westerly Causes Minor Damage in City Roof Lifted, Harbor Craft Blown Ashore
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 September 1937 · page 2
A 60-MILE-AN-HOUR south-westerly gale lashed the city yesterday. A number of craft on the Harbor broke loose from their moorings, and were driven ashore…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 September 1937 · page 1
YARRAWONGA (Vic.), Friday.--A strong homing instinct was displayed by 23 bullocks brought here this week by goods train from Urana (N.S.W.)…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 September 1937 · page 3
CROWDS INSPECTING the stern of the An Lu, which, was driven into the concrete on the Bund at Hongkong, during the recent cyclone there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Election Fight Looms Parties Preparing; Planes, And Flood Of Pamphlets State Members Will Be Free to Assist
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 September 1937 · page 7
PREPARATIONS for the Federal election fight are being made on the assumption that October 23 will be "the day." Aeroplanes are being booked, pamphlets prepared, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Awatea in Gale. Four Hours Late. Wellington (N.z.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1937 · page 12
"We are throwing no bouquets at tne Tasman Sea after this trip," said Captain Davey, when the liner Awatea arrived from Sydney four hours late to-day…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1937 · page 11
Petrol from a burst pipe-line flooded streets in Portland (Western District) in the vicinity of the Shell Company's works on Saturday night. Barricades were erected and the area…
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Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 2
The atmosphere was strained as they sat facing each other. She: "I see now why a woman is often called a bird."…
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The Propeller · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 1
During the storm last Friday wind tore off the back verandah and part of the roof of a cottage in Croydon Street, Cronulla, owned by Mr. F. W…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 1
LESLIE KENNY, of Showground Street, Castle Hill, was struck by lightning while sheltering beneath a tree during a severe thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Parramatta District Ambulance took…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 7
A man was paralysed in the right side and leg through being struck by lightning during a severe electrical storm in the Hills district yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dearth Near in Storm Man Struck By Lightning And Paralysed Fires Start
The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 8
SHELTERING beneath the bough[?] of a tree from heavy rain and hall off Jones Road, Kenthurst, late yesterday, a relief worker, Leslie…
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Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 21
WITH the hurdles out 50 feet from the rails on the course proper at Mentone this morning, few fast times were recorded, but some useful tasks…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Melbourne Gallops Floodtide Shines Over Six Good Trial By Another Cup Candidate Willie Win MELBOURNE
The Sun · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 48
FLOODTIDE again demonstrated that he is a worthy Cup candidate by a solid six furlongs at Mentone this morning. Galloping 50ft. out from' the rails on the course…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Endeavor I Breaks Tow-rope; Missing in Atlantic Gale New York
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 3
MR. T. O. M. SOPWITH'S yacht, Endeavour I, with a crew of 18 aboard, is missing. She was being towed to England by the motor yacht Viva…
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The Sun · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 3
A mellowed crispness in the morning air, accompanied by brilliant sunshine, made Sydney spring conscious to-day…
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The Sun · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 3
THE 28-foot cutter Rapid was wrecked off Althrope Island last night, and a member of the crew, A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kangaroos in Storm. Arawa Delayed. Pearce's Grand Recovery
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 21
The Arawa suffered a severe buffeting in the last 24 hours in the Atlantic gale, large waves carrying away anything loose on the decks. The captain did not appear at dinner[?]…
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The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 1
GRAVE fears are entertained for the safety of a Puss Moth aeroplane piloted by D. Saville,which left Melbourne yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Nerve Of Astronomer Gale! Harvard Won't Have His Comet American Sneers At Australian Discovery
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 5
WHEN Walter F. Gale, eminent Australian astronomer, aimed his telescope at a faint smear of light in the sky one April midnight of this year, he might have been pardoned for uttering a whoop of excitement. Astronomers, as a rule, do not whoop with excitement. But Mr. Gale had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Liner Missing. Fails to Reach Broken Hill. Big Dust Storm. Twelve Cars Search, Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 17
In a terrific duststorm, the Australian National Airways 'plane, Marika, flying between Melbourne and Broken Hill, disappeared this…
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