Golf. Club Titles. Another Ferrier Win. Gale and Taylor Also Successful
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 September 1939 · page 6
J. Ferrier, the Australian open and amateur golf champion added the New Metropolitan Club's championship to his remarkable list of victories in this season's campaign. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Cyclone in U.S.A. Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Tuesday 26 September 1939 · page 3
SAN FRANCISCO, Monday--A terrific cyclone swept the southern Californian coastline yesterday, causing great loss of life and damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone's Toll Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 3
LOS ANGELES, Tuesday.-- Deathroll in the fierce cyclone which swept Southern California on Sunday night totals 43 and many more are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gales Kill 46; Many Missing Los Angeles
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 3
Forty-six people have been killed and scores are missing as the result of violent gales in southern California…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Under Storm of Shells German Troops Quit Saarbruecken LONDON
The Sun · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 1
Under a storm of French shells, German forces have been compelled to evacuate completely the industrial town of Saarbruecken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suing Hitler's Storm Troops. Archbishop Klein's Writ. Slander Against the Church
Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 36
The Most Rev. Kaspar Klein, Archbishop of Paderborn, Wesphalia, has brought suit in court against certain members of Chancellor Hitler's own…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Storms Due Next Month
The Land · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 5
CROHAMHURST Observatory, Q., Sept. 20—October presents the prospect of a succession of storms, with satisfactory rainfalls…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Better Weather For Holiday Weekend Likely More Rain Inland May Cause Floods in East
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 September 1939 · page 6
"Gradually improving weather" is the best the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) could promise last night for the holiday weekend. Further showers, but some fine breaks, are likely in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain in North
The Sun · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 3
Heavy rain fell in the north-eastern part of the State yesterday. Coff's Harbor topped the list with 354 points…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods As Bar to Nazis London, Sunday. Our Own Cable Service
Daily News · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 1
Massing of German troops at Aachen has caused Holland and Belgium to open their floodgates to bar a Nazi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Downpour at Tarago. Motorists Trapped; Houses Flooded. GOULBURN
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1939 · page 11
Motorists were held up for several hours and a number of houses were flooded following a torrential downpour of rain which was accompanied by thunder at Tarago last night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rose Day Storm Troopers Campaign For Charity Funds On
The Sun · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 16
Rose Day -- on Friday -- is for charity, but in the wartime spirit, strategy has dictated positions for the army of pretty girls who will sell…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tranquille Borders Flooded with Orders
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 10
THE Border Lec[?]ester stud of the Estate of the late John B[?], Tranquille, Gunnedah, has experime[?] an ex[?] demand for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Murray in Flood 100 Saved Mildura
The Sun · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 10
The Murray River broke through the levee here last night and caused 100 persons living in low-lying…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →25 Families Rescued Murray Floods At Mildura
Daily News · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 2
MILDURA, Wed.--Dramatic rescues of 25 families on the N.S.W. side of the Murray River, opposite Mildura, were made to-day when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →100 Made Homeless by Flood Mildura
Daily News · Friday 6 October 1939 · page 5
DRIVEN from their homes by Murray River floodwaters, 100 people are now living on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forecasts Gales at Sea
Daily News · Saturday 7 October 1939 · page 2
A strong gale was blowing at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. It reached 54 m.p.h. In a special ocean forecast last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Offensive Predicted French Storm Signal New York
The Sun · Saturday 7 October 1939 · page 1
"Prepare for a general offensive on the Saa[?] front, which the Germans will make regardless of casualties." This, says the special correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Desert Crossed. From Sand-hills to Mud and Flood
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 October 1939 · page 11
It was a great relief from the monotony of the Simpson Desert to camp in the box-gums of the Hay, to have a good generous fire, and to smell the burning leaves, an odour dear to all Australians. The Hay here had a sandy bed a quarter of a mile wide, with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Nazis Shoot 1000 Storm-Troopers Wholesale Party Purge of Soviet Pact Critics London
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 October 1939 · page 1
Criticism of the pact with Russia has led to wholesale purges in the Nazi party. Several London Sunday newspapers report shootings and…
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