A Terrible Fall. One Man Killed. Three Injured. Sydney, Friday afternoon
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 November 1912 · page 5
While four men were, engaged bricklaying on a big chimney at Frawler's pottery works, Marrickville, the seaffold suddenly collapsed, and all the men were hurled to the ground…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 5
[?] J. Bruyn, one of the oldest [?]appeared early last night, leav[?] saying he was tired of life, and [?] was found in the river this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vessels in Collision. Wireless Messages. Norfok (v.), Nov
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 2
The Norwegian steamer Noruega [?] with the ship Glenlui at Cape Hatter[?] North Carolina, and was forced to [?] in the teeth of a 45-mile gale. The [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car. Runs Into Troops. Territorials Injured
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 6
Four London Territorials were injured last week-end through a heavy motor car rushing into the rear of a column returning to Camberley camp…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schooner Breaks in T[?] Six Men Drowned Norfolk (Virginia), Nov. [?]
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 2
The schooner John Maxwell was [?] yesterday. She broke in two during [?]len gale. Six members of the crew[?] throughout the night to the rigging, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Gales in Canada. Twenty Persons Drowned. Montreal, Nov. 2
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 2
A Hurricane is raging down the St. Lawrence. The Allan liner Victoria broke from her moorings at Quebec and drifted about the harbour. She was finally anchored…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 9
Mr. Arthur Kennedy, plumber, w[?]ilst working at Aberdeen, had a narrow escape from being killed. It appears that a scaffold on which he was standing broke and he fell…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Injured in a Glove Contest
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 November 1912 · page 5
Charles Alfred was charged at the Police Court, to-day for inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Charles Delbridge at the Gaiety Athletic Hall. It was stated that the two…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 November 1912 · page 6
The following curious anecdote is told of Lady Mary Wallace, famed in her maiden days at Miss Eglintonne Maxwell, of Monteith, and the sister of the sister of the Duchess of…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 November 1912 · page 4
On Thursday afternoon two young men, charles Hicks and Dick Turner, were out shooting at Glenalbyn, near Vacy. While Tumor was cocking the hammer, his thumb…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 November 1912 · page 3
New Orleans, Tuesday.—Yazoo, on the river of that name, 36 miles north-west of the town of Jackson, has been the scene of a fearful railway catastrophe,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sulky Accident
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 3
Mr. Tinkler, of Cessnock, and a lady and child, had a narrow escape from a serious sulky accident at Cessnock yesterday. Mr. Tinkler had alighted from his sulky to go…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 4
Mr. E. W. Carrington, proprietor of the motor garage near High-street Railway Station, wet with a very painful accident last night. He was assisting his son George to fill the sumph of the engine with…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 4
Indianapolis, Thursday.-An inbound Cineinnati passenger train crashed into a freight train, telescoping the baggage car Sixteen persons were killed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad Domestic Tragedy. Mother and Son Drowned
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 5
The wife of a settler at Nannella, Vic., named Porch, was found drowned with her son, Stanley, aged 7, in a water channel near their residence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Terrible Fall. One Man Killed. Three Injured. Sydney, Friday afternoon
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 9
While Four men were, engaged bricklaying on a big chimney at Frawler's pottery works, Marrickville, the scaffold suddenly collapsed, and all the men were hurled to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Navvy Cut in Two. Shocking Fatality
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 November 1912 · page 4
A shocking accident occurred on Saturday at Wodonga. The second empty from Albury had gone over, and was engaged in, shunting operations, when the shunter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strange Seaside Disaster. Lighthouse-keepers Drowned
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 November 1912 · page 5
At 2.30 a.m. on Sunday tho Wonga shoal liglithouse, a structure 80ft. high, situated a short distance from Semaphore jetty, near the outer harbour, Adelaide, was destroyed…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 November 1912 · page 4
Whilst proceeding to Newcastle on Saturday afternoon on a motor bicycle, a young man named Hurry Barden, son or Mr. H. Barden, of the firm of Barden and Ribee, met…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eighteen Gunners Injured
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 November 1912 · page 2
London, Saturday.-A terrible gun accident occurred to-day at Shoeburyness. A 13.5-inch gun, which was being used for practice purposes, burst…
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