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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 61

Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed out play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire saved…

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Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed out play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire sayed…

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Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed out play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire saved…

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Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed out play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire saved…

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Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed out play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire saved…

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Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed out play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire saved…

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Storm Can Save Aust. Side at Southampton

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 14

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. -- A hailstorm accompanied by intermittent showers which washed o[?] play between Australia and Hampshire yesterday and turned the ground into a quagmire save…

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Ship delayed 2 days by gale

The Sun · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 3

Tossed about like a toy in heavy seas for two days in the mid-Tasman- this week, the Union steamship Karetu…

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Illegal Bma Leaflets Flood Through Mails Federal And State Acts Violated

Tribune · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 6

Immediate Federal and State action should be taken against BMA misuse of the mails to distribute thousands of illegal leaflets opposing the free medicine scheme. The leaflets bear no authorisation or printer’s name, a breach of the State…

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80 drown in Turkish flood

The Sun · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

ISTANBUL, Saturday. — Death-roll in the flood at Amasya (Turkey) is officially stated to be at least 80…

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Heavy Flood Toll

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

ANKARA, Saturday.--Sixty- seven persons have been drowned and 200 homes have been destroyed in floods in…

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Heavy Flood Toll

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 5

ANKARA, Saturday.--Sixty- seven persons have been drowned and 200 homes have been destroyed in floods in…

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Heavy Flood Toll

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

ANKARA, Saturday.--Sixty- seven persons have been drowned and 200 homes have been destroyed in floods in…

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Storms In Marriage Of Theatre Manager

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 24

THERE were some storms in the married life of Rudolph Cary Bohrsmann, one of the Tivoli circuit's theatre managers. Once his wife, Mrs. Sarah…

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Storm Over Assault On Wild Life

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 10

Various schemes, which have been mooted lately to make money out of the slaughter of wild life in and around Australia, have led to angry protests from all…

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Two U.s. Flood Victims Found

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday.—The flood-shattered city of Vanport (Oregon) yielded its first body today with the discovery of the…

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Lifeboat Rescue in Gale Off U.k. Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- A lifeboat was launched at Weymouth yesterday in a heavy gale to go to the rescue of…

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Lifeboat Rescue in Gale Off U.k. Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.-- A lifeboat launched at Weymouth yesterday in g heavy gale rescued three people in a…

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New Flood Menace Waters Rush On U.S. City

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 6 (A.A.P.).—A new wall of water is roaring down the mountain gorges of the…

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52 U.s. Flood Victims Found

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.). -- Fifty-two people, of whom 45 are children, have been reported missing since the…

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