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Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 104

Mails in Flood Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 15

BECAUSE of the intensive floods in Western Queensland affecting mail deliveries, the Postmaster-General has…

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Mails in Flood Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 15

BECAUSE of the intensive floods in Western Queensland affecting mail deliveries, the Postmaster-General has…

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Mails in Flood Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 15

BECAUSE of the intensive floods in Western Queensland affecting mail deliveries, the Postmaster-General has…

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Mails in Flood Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 15

BECAUSE of the intensive floods in Western Queensland affecting mail deliveries, the Postmaster-General has…

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Floods in Morocco

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 7

PARIS, Tuesday. -- Several persons have been drowned in floods in Morocco, North Africa. Damage is widespread…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost every thing he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when lie died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo-d" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaph attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Disaster, Fire, Storm and Havoc Followed a "Hoodoo'd" Admiral the Story of "The Worst Admiral England Ever Had"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 15

"THE Worst Admiral England Ever Had" was the epitaphs attached to the memory of Sir Hovenden Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies Fleet in the reign of Queen Anne, by contemporaries when he died. Throughout a long naval career this booby of the quarter-deck cast a hoodoo over almost everything he touched. Nearly every ship whose deck…

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Illicit Drugs Flood U.s. Govt. Plans Big Attack

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 16

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--American narcotics agents who recently trapped the biggest cocaine smuggling gang ever caught in the United States are about to crack down…

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Illicit Drugs Flood U.s. Govt. Plans Big Attack

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 16

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- American narcotics agents who recently trapped the biggest cocaine smuggling gang ever caught in the United States are about to crack down…

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Illicit Drugs Flood U.s. Govt. Plans Big Attack

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 16

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--American narcotics agents who recently trapped the biggest cocaine smuggling gang ever caught in the United States are about to crack down…

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Population Of Eight Million Before 1950 Ends Migration Flood Grows By A Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 24 April 1949 · page 6

CANBERRA, Saturday.—Australia's migration scheme is growing so rapidly that the Minister for Immigration, Mr. A. A. Calwell, believes the population will reach eight million before the end of next year…

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Costly U.s. Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 April 1949 · page 20

PULLMAN (Washington).-- Last year's disastrous floods in the north-west caused damage totalling £8,627,283 to…

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Costly U S. Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 April 1949 · page 20

PULLMAN (Washington).-- Last year's disastrous floods in the north-west caused damage totalling £8,627.283 to…

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Britain to Defend Hongkong Storm Over Ship Shelling Indignation at Affront

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--A Foreign Office announcement yesterday indicated that Britain was determined to defend Hongkong…

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Britain to Defend Hongkong Storm 0ver Ship Shelling Indignation at Affront

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--A Foreign Office announcement yesterday indicated that Britain was determined to defend Hongkong…

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Storm Over Best-seller

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.--British newspapers predict the biggest literary storm for years when the American novel, "The Naked and the Dead," is published today…

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