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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Footballer Injured. London, Nov. 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 December 1922 · page 13

The "Daily Mail" states that the Clifton College player V. P. Powell, formerly of Christ's College, New Zealand, one of the best public school…

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Five Injured. Bolting Horse Near Orange

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 December 1922 · page 6

A bolting horse caused a delivery part to capsize near Martinville, in the Orange district, and five people were thrown out and injured…

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Two Killed. Motor Car Smash. Two Others Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 December 1922 · page 16

A party of four was travelling in a motor car from. Yea to Melbourne on Saturday when two were killed and two injured. Those killed…

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Motor Car Accident Novel Law Suit. London, December. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1922 · page 5

In a case stated to be unique Misses Butler and Hawes two young friends of Mr. Bransby Williams sued Mr. Williams's son and…

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Tram Collision Nine Persons Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 December 1922 · page 2

As the result of a tram collision in Harris-street, Ultimo, Sydney, on Saturday, nine persons were injured. A train, bound for Circular Quaym, was…

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DFNMAN (From our Special Reprsentative). Serious Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 December 1922 · page 2

Master T. Wicks met with a serious accident on Friday last, when he was thrown from Iris horse on to a gate post, sustaining injuries to the…

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Accidentally Shot (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 December 1922 · page 2

While three seamen were examining a revolver at Snails Bay wharf it suddenly went off. The bullet lodged in the back of Arthur Hill. His condition…

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Hero Airman. Motor Car Accident. London, December 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1922 · page 5

Alan Cobham, most celebrated long-distance [?] airman, known as the [?] Air Tamiman, the here of many night fights broke it is…

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Accident to a Boy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1922 · page 4

Maurice Green, 6 years, son of Mr. George Green, of 22. Denman-street West Maitland, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon, Coming out…

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Shunter Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1922 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Scott a shunter, employed by the Abermain Coal Mining Company, had his foot badly crused on Wednesday. He was…

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The Story of a Collision. Told at the Small Debts Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 December 1922 · page 7

In the Small Debts Court at Cessnock on Tuesday, before Major Crane, Sydney Charles Gray, by his next friend, William Henry Gray, sued…

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Tram Collision. Nine People Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 9

Nine passengers were injured on Saturday in a train smash at Ultimo. A car bound for Circular Quay was pulled up at M'Arthur-street. off…

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Slashed with Razor. Three Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 2

Three men were slashed with a razor in a disturbance at Clovelly. Information in the hands of the police shows that a party of men and…

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A Real Road Hog Man and Infant Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 1

A motorist behaved in a very callous fasliion in the city on Wednesday afternoon. Francis Parnell, of Cookadinga, near Albury, was walking…

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Lucky Inventions. Accidental Discoveries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 16

"I wonder," said the kindly friend, "why you have never tried to invent anything." Well, very few successful…

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Motor Car Accident. Novel Law Suit. London, December. 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 12

In a case stated to be unique, Misses Butler and Hawes, two young friends of Mr. Bransby Williams, sued' Mr. Williams's son and…

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Hero Airman. Motor Car Accident. London, December 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 2

Alan Cobham, most celebrated long-distance English airman, known as the European Air Taximan, the here of many night flights, broke his…

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Motor Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1922 · page 4

A collision between a motor car and motor cycle occurred near the intersection of Newcastle and Melbourne streets, East Maitland this…

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Man Falls 250 Feet. Rosa Gully Fatality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 December 1922 · page 2

The mutilated remains of a man who has since been identified as Charles H. Strutton, of Stanmoreroad, Stanmore, were found on the…

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Bull Resents Shooting. Man Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 December 1922 · page 2

Frederick Towner, of Strathmyre, near Rockhmpton (Q.), was trying to shoot a bull for a neighbor, when the animal charged him, fracturing his ribs…

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