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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Sequel to Motor Collision. £150 Damages Against the Government

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1919 · page 5

In the Kempsey District Court before Judge Cohen, cross-actions were heard between the Government and Francis [?] Tyne, motor-car proprietor, of "Bellbrook."…

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Rustless Steel. Discovered by Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 2

"The romance of rustless steel, one of the most recent metallurgical triumphs," writes the "Scientific American," "is given increased prominence with the removal of…

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Dragged Into Machinery Shocking Accident at Macksville

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 6

A shocking accident occurred on Monday while the timber drogher was coming to-wards Macksville from Nambucca Heads. Victor Denham, an employee, was…

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Huns Drowned. London, June 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1919 · page 6

The "Evening News" publishes a story by a naval officer who was present at Scapa Flow. He states that the officers scuttled the ships, and in the most caes the men did…

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German Complaint. Injured Innocents. London. June 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1919 · page 13

Reuter's correspondent at Berlin states that the new German Premier, Herr Bauer, addressing a crowded Assembly, emphasised the bitterness of deciding to join the…

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Two Men Injured. Sling of Timber Slips

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1919 · page 11

Serious injuries were sustained by two workmen in the course of their employment at the wharf of Allen Taylor and Company, Limited, timber merchants, at Pyrmont…

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Dragged Into Machinery Shocking Accident at Macksville

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1919 · page 8

A shocking accident occurred on Monday while the timber dregher was coming towards Macksville from Nambucca Head. Victor Denham, an employee was…

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Rank Clerk Shot. Accidental Occurrence. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1919 · page 3

Thomas Easterling, a clerk in the Government Savings Bank in Moore-street, Sydney, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital last night, suffering, from a bullet wound in…

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Collision Off Capetown. Barque Sunk. Capetown, July 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 July 1919 · page 5

The Thermistonles left on Friday with Australian troops. She wirelessed on Friday that she had collided with and sank in a dense fog, off the Aunthas Bank, the…

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Shocking Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1919 · page 5

Mrs. Kelly, of Junee, was run over by a paper tram. She was carried about forty yards along the permanent way. Her body was so dreadfully mangled that for some…

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Serious Accident. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 July 1919 · page 5

Laban Mitchell, a miner, a resident of Cessnock, was thrown from a horse in Main-street this afternoon and seriously injured about the head. He was admitted to the…

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Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 July 1919 · page 2

A man, named Laban Mitchell, was the victim of an accident in Main street to-day. Mitchell was thrown from his horse and…

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Collision Off Capetown. Barque Sunk. Capetown, July 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 July 1919 · page 14

The Thermistocles left on Friday with Australian troops She wirelessed on Friday that she had collided with and sank in a dense fog, off the Agulhas Bank the…

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Collision with Iceberg. Titanic Disaster Averted. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Halifax, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 July 1919 · page 2

The steamer Grampian struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and was much damaged. Several of the crew' worn killed…

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Recent Motor-Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 July 1919 · page 4

With regard to the accident to Mr. Jack Garraty, reported in Friday's Issue, the driver of the motor-car, Mr. E. Wilson, of Illnton, explains that he was in no way to…

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Accident to Sergeant Dolman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 July 1919 · page 4

Sergeant Dolman, of the West Maitland police force, is at present confined to his home, the result of an accident. On Friday evening last, when out riding at Bolwarra…

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Accidents in Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 July 1919 · page 3

The number of accidents in coal mines was referred to at the half-yearly meeting of the southern branch of the Australasian Goal and Shale Employees' Association,…

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Cyclist in Collision with Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1919 · page 5

A motor cyclist named George Seale, was severely injured last night as the result of [?] with a motor car at Camperdown. Over forty stitches were inserted in his wounds…

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Attempted Raid. Soldiers and Naval Men. Man Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1919 · page 8

Bearing naval ensigns and shouting all kinds of wild threats, between 60 and 70 soldiers and naval men, the majority of them being in uniform, marched along St…

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Local and General News. Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1919 · page 4

A milkman named Joseph Wright, residing at South Maitland, met with a serious accident while delivering milk at Homeville on Saturday morning. The horse he…

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