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Blue Mountains · Accidents

Accidents, 1915

3 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Shocking Motor Fatality. Popular Athletic Killed Companion Injured

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 2

Clarence Roy Bembrick, the 23-year-old son of Ald. S. Bembrick, left home just before tea on Saturday last on his motor cycle, stating that he would only…

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Finger Posts Badly Wanted. Almost a Fatality. Will Council Wake Up?

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 3

Mistaking a cattle track for the path they were following, the Rev. Abraham Deans, a well known Congregational minister, of Sydney, and his three children,…

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Valuable Accident

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 December 1915 · page 7

When that very dangerous explosive, nitro-glycerine, was first invented extraordinary precautions had to be taken to prevent accidents while the substance…

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