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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

2,104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 106

Men and Beasts Fought for Life in Murrumbidgee Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 19

ONE hundred arid two years ago tomorrow the 250 residents of the small New South Wales township of Gundagai went to bed without undue apprehension. All were aware that the Murrumbidgee…

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Men and Beasts Fought for Life in Murrumbidgee Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 19

ONE hundred and two years ago tomorrow the 250 residents of the small New South Wales township of Gundagai went to bed without undue apprehension. All were aware that the Murrumbidgee…

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Churchill Names Four Reserves As Test Hopes On trial in game under floodlights

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 39

BRISBANE, Wed.--Four reserves for the N.S.W. Rugby League team--Ross Kite, Martin Gallagher, Peter Divers and Don Evenden--will have their hag chance of gaining Test selection…

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Churchill Names Four Reserves As Test Hopes On trial in game under floodlights

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 39

BRISBANE, Wed.--Four reserves for the N.S.W. Rugby League team--Ross Kite, Martin Gallagher, Peter Diversi and Bon Evenden--will have their big chance of gaining Test selection…

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Men and Beasts Fought for Life in Murrumbidgee Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 19

ONE hundred and two years ago tomorrow the 250 residents of the small New South Wales township of Gundagai went to bed without undue apprehension. All were aware that the Murrumbidgee…

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Men and Beasts Fought for Life in Murrumbidgee Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 19

ONE hundred and two years ago tomorrow the 250 residents of the small New South Wales township of Gundagai went to bed without undue apprehension. All were aware that the Murrumbidgee…

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Men and Beasts Fought Fob Life in Murrumbidgee Flood Tragedy That Stuck Gundagai

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 19

ONE hundred and two years ago tomorrow the 250 residents of the small New South Wales township of Gundagai went to bed without undue apprehension.All were aware that the Murrumbidgee…

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Men and Beasts Fought for Life in Murrumbidgee Flood Tragedy That Struck Gundagai

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 19

One hundred and two years ago tomorrow the 250 residents of the small New South Wales township of Gundagai went to bed without undue apprehension.All were aware that the Murrumbidgee…

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Storms Disaster in Japan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 4

TOKIO, Thursday. (U.P.).--At least 16 people have been killed and eight are…

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Storms Disaster in Japan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 4

TOKIO, Thursday. (U P.).--At least 16 people have been killed and eight are…

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Storms Disaster in Japan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 5

TOKIO, Thursday. (U.P.).--At least 16 people have been killed and eight are…

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Storms Disaster in Japan

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 5

TOKIO, Thursday. (U.P.).--At least 16 people have been killed and eight are…

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U.S. city facing big flood peril

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 6

NEW YORK, Wed. -- The Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, (Joseph Van Dresser) last night proclaimed a state of emergency as the highest floodwaters…

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Harrowing Programmes in U.s. Raging Flood of T.v. Tears

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 17

NEW YORK, Thursday (D.M.W.C.).--Television is flooding American homes with…

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Harrowing Programmes in U.s. Raging Flood of T.v. Tears

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 17

NEW YORK, Thursday (D.M.W.C.) .--Television is flooding American homes with…

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Euphrates at Flood When the Rain Came

Truth · Sunday 27 June 1954 · page 23

BRISBANE, Saturday.—Although topweight Euphrates put up a slashing performance to win Tatt's Cup at Eagle Farm today, he would have been left home in his stall if the showers that dampened the fixture had begun an hour sooner…

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Parisian Ballet in Floodlit Square

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 5

SPOTLIGHTING effects in the floodlit Place Vendome, Paris, recently made a brilliant setting for members of the Opera Ballet to perform. The famous column, surmounted by a…

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14,000 homeless in Texas flood

The Sun · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 2

LANGTRY (Texas), Monday.--At least five people were killed, 12 are missing and 14,000…

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Report Of Big Flood Toll

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 30 (A.A.P.)—An unconfirmed report says Rio Grande floodwaters have killed…

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Many die in U.S. floods

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thurs.--Texas State officials believe 59 people have died in the Rio…

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