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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 72

Worst Gale Since 1909 11 Deaths In England Gaol Break Fromisland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- 11 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in the worst gales and floods in England since 1909…

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Worst Gale Since 1909 11 Deaths In England Gaol Break From Island

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- 11 people have been killed and more than 40 injured In the worst gales and floods in England since 1909…

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Gale's Heavy Toll of Lives in England Worst Weather For 37 Years

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--Eleven people have been killed and more than 40 injured in the worst gales and floods in England since 1909. Harry Hackney (17), serving a sentence far murdering…

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Gale's Heavy Toll of Lives in England Worst Weather For 37 Years

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON,Saturday.--Eleven people have been killed and more than 40 injured in the worst gales and floods in England since 1909. Harry Hackney (17), serving a sentence for murdering…

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Gale's Heavy Toll of Lives in England Worst Weather For 37 Years

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 1

LONBON, Saturday.--Eleven people have been killed and more than 40 injured in the worst gales and floods in England since 1909. Harry Hackney (17), serving a sentence far murdering…

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Sellers Flood N.Y. Exchange

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--Heavy selling orders flooded the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, and share prices reached…

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Worst Floods In Britain For 30 Years

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday. -- Farmers are facing ruin from heavy, continuous rain which has caused the worst floods for…

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Locke, Von Nida Match Flooded Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 13

LONDON, Saturday. -- Owing to the flood conditions in the West Riding at Leeds the 36 holes match between Rees and Ward and Von…

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Locke, Von Nida Match Flooded Out

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 13

LONDON, Saturday. -- Owing to the flood conditions in the West Riding at Leeds the 36 holes match between Rees and Ward and Von…

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Gale and Flood Ravage England

Truth · Sunday 22 September 1946 · page 42

LONDON, Saturday.—Casualities in the worst gale and floods England has experienced since 1909 ire mounting. Thirteen persons have been killed or drowned, and at least 52…

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Wallabies Make Union History -- in a Gale

The Sun · Sunday 22 September 1946 · page 11

THE Australian Rugby Union team yesterday beat a gale, a thunderstorm and a 64-year-old ''hoodoo" to win 16-15 against Wellington. This was the first time…

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Political Storm Centre Wallace to keep pressure on for "peace fight" WASHINGTON

The Sun · Sunday 22 September 1946 · page 1

DISMISSAL from the US Cabinet of Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace by President Truman yesterday is the beginning of a domestic political hurricane, observers say…

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Tonic for Trainer, It's Now for the Epsom Shannon, Still At Flood Tide, Takes Quality H'cap

Truth · Sunday 22 September 1946 · page 3

In the absence of his sick trainer, Peter Riddle, Shannon was saddled up for his record-smashing victory in yesterday's Theo Marks' Quality Handicap at RosehiU by a former pony jockey, Jack Wilson…

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Many Deaths in Gales Devastation In England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sept. 22 (A.A.P.).— Thirteen people were killed and at least 52 injured in fierce gales which swept the English Channel…

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Crops Go In Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 6

ONE OF ENGLAND'S greatest post-war tragedies is the loss of her 1946 harvest through freak rain, which brought great…

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Crops Go In Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 6

ONE OF ENGLAND'S greatest post-war tragedies is the loss of her 1946 harvest through freak rain, which brought great…

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Heartbreak in Drought Country First floods, then the 'hoppers, then the drought... Women face them with the men and come up smiling

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 September 1946 · page 14

ON top of a five-ton load of hay on a huge Ford blitz truck, I drove 15 miles out of Moree the…

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A. Algar-D. Flood In Partnership of 212 Runs Centuries by C. WOODS, C. Green and Alan Algar. L Sheary-L. Briggs Featured in Last Wicket Partnership of 72 To Win Game For Kia Ora. Good Bowling Performances by W. HOGERS (Hat-trick)

The St George Call · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 4

Displaying their beet batting ability, Alan Algar and Douglas Flood, star Arncliffe batsmen, added 212 runs in a match-winning third-wicket partner, ship for the A1 premiers against Banksia at Arncliffe Park last Saturday. After passing the century Algar went on to score 144 In effortless style…

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Cloudburst Floods Texan City

The Sun · Saturday 28 September 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday. --The Texan town of San Antonio, was flooded by a cloudburst today and at…

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Big Texan Flood; 12 Deaths

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 September 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday. — Floods in San Antonio, Texas, have caused 12 deaths and damage estimated at nearly £500,000…

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