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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Woman's Walk Over Rugged Country With Injured Son

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 5

BRAIDWOOD, Tuesday: A striking story of the courage and resource of a woman who lives in the rugged mountainous country towards the head of the Deua River was unfolded recently when a small boy, aged seven or eight years, was brought to…

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A Painful Accident Man Rolled on by a Horse

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 2

A young man, Leslie Donges, of Monteagle, received painful injuries to the thigh when a horse he was riding fell and rolled on him…

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Trapeze Artist's Neck Broken Accident in Circus at Narrandera

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 2

A trapeze artist in Wirth's Circus broke his neck when he fell into a not last Friday night and is now in a critical condition…

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Three Injured When Car Capsizes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

Three persons had a lucky escape from serious injury near Yarra at noon to-day when their car skidded on a culvert and…

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Accident at Goulburn Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 2

Mr. Gordon Marks, of Avenue, Lidcombe, who was riding one of Mr. J. Cullen's horses in a hunting competition at Goulburn…

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24 DEAD Fire in Cracker Factory Many Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 4

MANILLA, Tuesday: Twenty-four are known to be dead and 21, of whom many are dying, have been taken to hospital as a result of a fire which…

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Lorry Accident Valley Residents Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

Mr. T. A. Cochrane and his son. Arthur, of "Oakleigh," Kangaroo Valley, were fortunate to escape with slight injuries when the lorry in…

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Accidents That Lead to Fortunes "I Have Got It" Shout All Inventors

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

LONDON: The wife of a travelling salesman one day towards the close of last century received a telegram from him. It ran: "I have got it. Our fortune is made." He had invented the safety razor. He is said to have…

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Car Hits Bowser Accident In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 4

Considerable damage was caused at the garage of Main Southern Motors at the intersection of Bradley and Auburn…

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Bread Given Token of Man's Escape From Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 2

LONDON: Free bread was distributed recently to nearly a hundred widows and fatherless children at St. Ives, Hunts, as decreed in the will…

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Two Injured When Car Swerves

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: Three persons in a car were injured' early to-day when the vehicle swerved to avoid a collision in Macquarie Street, City,…

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Strange Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 5

When driving in a motor car near Cootamundra last week, Gordon Daley, aged 19, of Harden, was the victim of a strange accident. What…

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Safety on the Roads Comparisons In Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 4

Recently there was cabled to the Australian press the fact that there were 38,500 traffic deaths in U.S.A. in 1936, but those responsible for,…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: Joseph Carroll, 26, a seaman, whose legs were severad when he was run, over by a truck at the Darling Harbour railway…

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Train Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Daniel McArthur, steelworker, of Flinders Street, Port Kembla, was Struck by a train and killed instantly about 400…

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Ambulance in Collision Car Driver Fined Case Against Grazier

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 1

Michael Clarence. Carney was fined £3, with costs, when he appeared at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday on a charge of…

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Easter Accidents Three Hurt in Car Crash Run-o-Water Hill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 7

Three Goulburn residents were injured, one critically, when two cars came into collision while travelling in…

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Thirty-five Drowned in Mine Shaft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 5

CAPETOWN, Tuesday: Thirty-four natives and one European were trapped like rats and drowned to-day when a handing cage in which they…

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Car Crashes Man Killed : Others Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 5

MUSWELLBROOK, Wednesday: One man was killed and four others were seriously injured when a car crashed through a fence and fell 30…

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Car Engine Exploded Mayor Injured Foul Play Is Suspected

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 5

KIRKSVILLE (Missouri), Tuesday: Mayo[?] G. Jacobs was critic ally Injured to-day when the engine of his car exploded as he…

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