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Floods & storms, 1953

1,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 84

Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 10

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.). -- The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Aid for British Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 20

NEWCASTLE, Tues.-- The Lord Mayor (Aid. Purdue) today said he was pleased with the response…

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Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 10

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.).-- The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 1

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.). -- The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 27

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.). --- The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 2

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.).-- The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 10

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.). --The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Big Floods on Amazon Feared

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 1

MANAUS (Brazil) (U.P.). --The Amazon River is surging over its banks three months ahead of the…

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Aid for British Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tues.-- The Lord Mayor (Aid. Purdue) today said he was pleased with the response…

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Storm Forces Pearlers Into Shelter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1953 · page 5

DARWIN, Wednesday.— The first four luggers of the pearling fleet to put to sea from Darwin this year have…

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Flood in city store

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 April 1953 · page 12

FOUR employees deeming a basement of a city department store after a burst water pipe…

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Quiet Moment Life's storms

The Sun · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 13

Sometimes there will be storm-clouds in your sky; well let them gather, soon they'll have passed…

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Het nieuwe boek Vliegende Storm door Klaas Toxopeus

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 2

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20,000 Sheep Died In Flood

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 13

BRISBANE: Twenty thousand sheep, worth at least £100,000, perished In the big Mastntyre River flood in late…

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Gales Wreck Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 11

WELLINGTON, Sun. --Fierce gales this weekend wrecked scores of homes and…

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Damage Over Wide Area In N.Z. Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

WELLINGTON, N.Z., Sunday (A.A.P.-Reuter). —A gale which swept the east coast of the South…

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1,200 Homeless After Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

LONDON, April 13 (A.A.P.). — A hurricane damaged hundreds of houses in East London (South…

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Launch Fights Gale On Mercy Trip

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 10

BRISBANE, Monday.— A 35ft launch fought its way through a gale to get two seamen to Gladstone…

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Launch in Gale with Sick Men

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 7

BRISBANE, Mon.--A 35ft. launch punched its way through a gale today to bring two sick seamen to Gladstone Hospital…

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U.K. Flood Warning East Coast In Danger Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, April 13.— Flood warnings have gone out all along Britain's east coast, where 307 people lost…

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