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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Every-day Accidents. No Home, Workshop, or Farm can afford to be without Zam-Buk. Quick. Perfect Healing for Flesh Wounds and inquiries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1916 · page 2

It may be a simple seratch, a cut, bruise, burn or seald, but no matter how trivial the injury, unless some Zam-Buk is immediately smeared over the hurt place,…

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Shooting Fatality at Bellbird

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 3

Residents of Bellbird and district received a shook last Saturday When it became known that John Thomas Cousins, 20 years and 8 months old…

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Shooting Fatality at Bellbird

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 3

Residents of Bellbird and district received a shock last Saturday when it became known that John Thomas Cousins, 20 years and 8 months old…

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Cessnock Shooting Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 2

The district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, held an inquest at the Cessnock Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of John Thomas Cousin, who met his death of December 16,…

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Cessnock Shooting Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 2

The district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, held an inquest at the cessnock Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of John Thomas…

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Motoring Fatality. a Priest Killed. Bourke

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 8

FATHER BARRON (Bourke), Father O'More (Wilcannia), and Father Carrol (Brewarrina), left Brewarrina about 3 o'clock this morning for Bourke, ac…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1916 · page 5

On Tuesday afternoon, Ernest, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, of Ravensworth, narrowly escaped drowning. The boy, who is six years of age, in company with other…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1916 · page 5

On Tuesday afternoon, Ernest, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, of Ravensworth, narrowly escaped drowning The boy, who is six years of age, in company with other…

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Motoring Fatality. a Priest Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1916 · page 23

Father Barron (Bourke), Father O'More (Wilcannia), and Father Carrol (Brewarrina) left Brewarrina about 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning for Bourke, accompanied by Mr…

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Professor David. How He Was Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1916 · page 16

Chaplain Wilson, who was attached to the Miners' Battalion, writing to the Rev. C. J. Prescott, of Newington College, says:— "I cannot close without a word regarding…

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Serious Collision. Italian Steamer Sunk. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Paris, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 December 1916 · page 7

The French armoured cruiser Ernest Renan collided with and cut in two an Italian steamer. One hundred and fifteen passengers were picked up and 15…

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Naval Accident. Two Destroyers Sunk. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1916 · page 5

The British Admiralty reports that two destroyers were sunk through a collision in the North Sea on Thursday last, due to bad weather. Six officers and 51 men were lost…

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Drowning Fatality. Death of Edward Joseph Robinson

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1916 · page 6

A sad drowning fatality occurred in the Hunter River yesterday afternoon, near the old wool-wash, Oakhampton-road, when a lad, named Edward Joseph Robinson, son of…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1916 · page 4

A young lad named Hewitt, living at East Maitland, was yesterday climbing on a willow tree overhanging Wallis Creek, when a branch broke, and let the boy down into a…

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Disastrous Storm. Serious Damage at Orange. Six People Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1916 · page 3

The most disastrous storm in the history of the Orange district occurred at about six o'clock on Sunday evening. Orchards and [?] crops suffered tremendous damage…

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Three Persons Drowned

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 December 1916 · page 2

Five young women and a man were bathing, at Yeppoon, near Rockhamplon, on Monday, when three of the women got into deep water. The man saved…

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Great Storm at Orange. Five People Drowned. Crops and Fruit Destroyed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 December 1916 · page 2

The Orange district, on Sunday evening, experienced, the most devastating storm that has ever been seen there. Orchards, cereal crops, and…

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Fatal Burning Accident a Father's Sacrifice

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 December 1916 · page 3

While Florence Stratton, 30, daughter of Robt. Stratton, of Taradale, between Wagga dn Tumbarumba, was making tea at an open fire place at her father's home,…

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Death from Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 4

On Christmas Day Mr. Edwin Charles Eveleigh, of Lostock (says the Dungog "Chronicle") met with a tragedically sudden end. Accompanied by a neighbour,…

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Dashed Against a Tree. Railway Worker Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 3

David Fleming, 37, a railway worker, who lives with his wife and two young children at the Tumbaramba Railway Construction Camp, near Wagga, left the camp to catch…

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