Fell From Pillion Girl Sustains Fracture Or Skull Yamba Road Accident. Maclean
A compound fracture of the skull and abrasions to the arms and legs were sustained on Tuesday night by Miss Marjorie Sheehan, of Maclean,…
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Accidents, 1939
767 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 39
Collision in Street
Two motor vehicles collided in the main street, of Coffs Harbour last Wednesday afternoon. The big lorry of the Northern Rivers Fruit…
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Gordon Green, 33, married, a laborer employed by the Dorrigo Shire Council at Glenreagh, received probable fractures to his ribs just after noon…
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Arthur Bevan, 15 years, of 19 Pound street, Grafton, slipped on the spring board at the Grafton baths yesterday afternoon and sustained a probable…
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Deaths in road accidents in Britain during 1938 totalled 6595 and injured 226,854, slightly exceeding the totals for 1937. Accidents in homes totalled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tea Postponed Salvationist Fatally Injured
The Orange Salvation Army had planned a welcome tea the other night to Major and Mrs. Wooster, of Albury (formerly of Grafton), who were going…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ACCIDENTAL Woman's Death From Gas "Will Rogers' First Wife." Sydney
A claim that Mrs. Elinor Hunter (51), who was gassed in a Bellevue Hill flat, on December 20 last, had been the first wife of the late film…
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Edith Irby (11), daughter of Mr. Frank Irby, of Shannonbrook received a probable fracture of the right elbow when she fell from a bicycle she was riding on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Radio Man's Car Plunged Into Rivet. Man and Dog Drowned. Melbourne
Climbing through the window of his Rolls Royce car after it had plunged into the Yarra, at 3 a.m to-day, Eric Welch, radio announcer; had a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nearly Drowned Man at Park Beach Lifesavers' Great Work
The value of the surf lifesaving movement was demonstrated in a very practical way at Park Beach last Sunday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trams Collp 40 People Injured Many Children On Board Sensation at Campekdown Sydney
Two crowded trams collided in Parramatta road. Camperdown, today, and 40 people were injured. The front of one tram and the rear…
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A motor car accident, fortunately unattended with serious results, occurred late on Tuesday night, January 17, 1939, on the road from Taree to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Accidental Death" Man Electrocuted At Kempsey District Coroner's Finding
That death resulted from cardiac failure due to an electric shock accidentally received on January 6 whilst assisting to work a winch in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Briggsvale Accident Broken Back Max Walked and Worked
Mr. Barney McCann. Coff's Harbour, broke his back whilst lifting a heavy weight at Briggsvale on Friday, 13th, but did not…
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Mr. J. J. Fitzgerald, one of the representatives for Oxley in the State Parliament under proportional representation some years apo, was in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greyhound Tonto Destroyed After Accident
The greyhound racing dog, Tonto, which is raced in the name of C. Everingham, of Grafton, had to be destroyed as a result, of his injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Killed Trucks in Collision. Brisbane
When three trucks were involved in a crash near Stanthorpe, early to-day, one man was killed and another seriously injured…
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The Union Steamship Co's. freighter Kahiki was extensively damaged in a shipping mishap caused by a strong wind at the sulphide wharf to-day…
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Frederick Byden, a wholesale fruiterer, of Windsor, Brisbane, and his son, Dally By den, had a narrow escape when a motor lorry in which they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Crash On Lismore Road Two Men Injured. Lismore
Two men were seriously injured when a motor car left the road on Bugden's Hill on the Lismore-Casino road, six miles from Lismore, at 8.30…
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