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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

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Two Drowned in Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 12

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Two persons were drowned yesterday at Harlan, Kentucky, where the Cumberland River is in flood.Hundreds…

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Two Drowned in Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 9

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Two persons were drowned yesterday at Harlan, Kentucky, where the Cumberland River is in flood Hundreds…

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Two Drowned in Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 9

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Two persons were drowned yesterday at Harlan, Kentucky, where the Cumberland River is in flood Hundreds…

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Two Drowned in Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 9

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Two persons were drowned yesterday at Harlan, Kentucky, where the Cumberland River is in flood Hundreds…

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Two Drowned in Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 12

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Two persons were drowned yesterday at Harlan Kentucky, where the Cumberland River is in flood Hundreds…

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Storm Damage Insurance

The Biz · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

The Mayor of Holroyd (Aid. Maunder), reporting at Holroyd Council on an Interview with the committee appointed by the Government, suggested the introduction…

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Fierce Gales Lash Brtain's West Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.--Fierce gales swept parts of the western coast of Great Britain today. Many coastal ships, menaced by the…

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Storm Damage Relief Prompt Action by Local Member

The Biz · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 7

Behind the recent announcement of financial assistance for owners of poultry and vegetable farms damaged by the storm on November 18 is a story of…

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Unshipped Wine May Flood Streets

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

PARIS, Thursday.--Streets in Algeria (French North Africa) may soon flow with wine, because of transport difficulties…

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Two Feared Lost In Port Phillip Storm

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Two amateur fishermen, John Matheson, 45, and Frank Roberts, 70, both of Sims- street, Sandringham, are feared lost. They went out in Port Phillip…

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Alaska's One-man Airline Even Delivers Babies When you operate on aerial freight and pass enger service over Alaska's frozen northlands you must be prepared to deliver anything, anywhere, says pioneering air pilot Jim Dodson. And he should know, he's already helped to bring two babies into the world while wrestling with a storm-tossed, single-engined aircraft

The World's News · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 5

"We deliver everything, even babies," Pilot Jim Dodson told me as he worked against time and the setting sun to make a…

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Woman Floods Burning Home

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--At Mandurang yesterday Mrs. Jean Muir saved her home from burning by…

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Storm Over Judge's Criticism Of Morals

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Justice Barnard has become the centre of a growing storm by declaring that a "woman nowadays doesn't mind being branded an adulteress." IT all started in the Divorce Court…

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Storm Over Judge's Criticism Of Morals

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday. --Mr. Justice Barnard has become the centre of a growing storm by declaring that a "woman nowadays doesn't mind being branded an adulteress." IT all started in the Divorce Court…

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Storm Over Judge's Criticism Of Morals

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Mr. Justice Barnard has become the centre of a growing storm by declaring that a "woman nowadays doesn't mind being branded an adulteress." IT all started in the Divorce Court…

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Storm Over Judge's Criticism Of Morals

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Mr. Justice Barnard has become the centre of a growing storm by declaring that a "woman nowadays doesn't mind being branded an adulteress." IT all started in the Divorce Court…

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Storm Over Judge's Remarks Criticism Of Women's Morals "Adulteress" Stigma Defied

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Justice Barnard has become the centre of a growing storm by declaring that a "woman nowadays doesn't mind being…

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Storm Over Judge's Remarks Criticism Of Women's Morals "Adulteress" Stigma Defied

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Justice Barnard has become the centre of a growing storm by declaring that a "woman nowadays doesn't mind being…

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Bowlers Recall Easter Cyclone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 6

The visit to Sydney next week of interstate bowls sides from Queensland and Victoria revives memories of Easter, 1927. The…

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Flood Stops Trains, Planes Water Three Feet Deep in Broken Hill Homes As Dam Bursts at B.h.p

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

WASHOUTS caused by the Darling River overflowing of Menindie have stopped all railway traffic over the 198 miles between Ivanhoe and Broken Hill. The Adelaide-Broken Hill air service has also been suspended…

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