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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1939

1,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 53

Caught In A Storm

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1939 · page 3

IT was a late afternoon in February, and the heat on the banks of the Macquarie River had become almost unbearable. Ted had…

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Ministers Divided Storm Brews In Cabinet HOBART

Daily News · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 2

The Prime Minister will meet a seriously divided and much disgruntled Cabinet in Hobart tomorrow…

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Daily News · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 5

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More U.S. Planes For Democracies "One Essential Fact in Storm Over Foreign Policy" Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 3

OUT of a welter of conflicting interpretations of American foreign policy emerges the essential fact that President Roosevelt intends to continue supplying the European democracies with armaments…

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Mine Victims Flood Coalfield Hospitals

Daily News · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 6

DESPITE statements by the owners that Australian mines are safe, it is significant that the greatest number of patients in the coalfield hospitals are either victims of mine accidents or of diseases contracted in the mines. In the Kurri Hospital, when I visited it…

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Poonbar Delayfd by Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 16

The John Burke Line freighter poonnar, which was due at Sydney from Queensland ports yester-day morning, ran into a gale soon after clearing Cape Moreton on Friday, and was delayed about…

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Snow Storm at Wedding

The Sun · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 1

Guests arrive for wedding at Windsor Castle in blinding snowstorm which threatened to postpone the ceremony. The occasion was the marriage of Queen Mary goddaughter the Hon. Anne Wigram, to Mr. John Leslie Harvey --the first wedding at Windsor Castle for 25 years. The heavy snow prevented many of…

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Daily News · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 5

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Flood Fatality Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Swept along by the raging flood waters of the River Severn, three barges smashed into a railway bridge [?]ging the loss of six lives…

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Floods Drown 9, MAKE 30,000 Homeless in U.S. CINCINNATI

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 3

NINE people have been drowned and 30,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Ohio River valley. Flood waters cover huge tracts in the States of Kentucky, Ohio…

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Losses During Bushfires. Storm Damage Claims Rejected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 16

The executive committee of the Lord Mayor's Bushfire Relief Fund decided yesterday that its funds could not be used to cover losses to property suffered…

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Lull In U.S. Policy Storm WASHINGTON

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 3

Because the Senate has adjourned until Thursday, the threatened storm over President Roosevelt's foreign policy has been…

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Weather-bound Airliner. Forced Back by Rain. Northern Storms. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 18

Torrential rain forced back the Royal Netherlands Indies air express to-day after it had covered 100 miles of its scheduled flight from Darwin to…

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Hotter Days Returning. 85 Degrees in City. Storm Tendencies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 18

When the thermometer rose to 85 degrees yesterday afternoon, Sydney experienced its hottest temperature since the record heat of 113.6 degrees…

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Daily News · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 7

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Floods Drive 40,000 From American Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 3

CINCINNATI, Tuesday.--Forty thousand people in five States have been forced by floods in the Ohio valley to evacuate their homes…

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Armed Parade to Draw Recruits Guns And Bands In Floodlit Streets

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 5

A speed up in militia enlistments is expected to follow the parade of armed volunteers on Friday…

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Short Of Water In Midst Of Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 1

CAIRNS, Tuesday.--Cairns today was--Isolated by floods; Short of water. The water shortage was caused by…

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Deluge-- For 40 Days BRISBANE

The Sun · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 16

What would Noah have to say about this--? In the 40 days and 40 nights since this year began. Tully, a…

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Storms Likely. Prospects of Scattered Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 11

Stormy tendencies have developed over the southern half of the State, and there are prospects of scattered rain in south-western areas…

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