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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 101

Motor Cyclist injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 6

Kelrn Maher, 25, a farmer, living at Largs, was riding a motor cycle along the Pitnacree Road, yesterday afternoon, when it skidded, throwing…

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Electrocuted. Another Fatality at Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 11

Edward Fahey of 8 Robert street Wickham was electrocuted while at work on the line running out to the new sewage treatment works at…

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Slipped Into River Kempsey Boy Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 16

When the ten-year-old adopted son of Mr. P. Connoliey, of West Kempsey failed to return home on Sunday, a search was made and the boy's hat…

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Workman Killed. Two Others Badly Injured. Blasting Accident at Bowral Quarries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 3

J. Wescott, of Bowral, was killed, and two men named Hodge and Regonl were seriously injured, at the Southern Motel Quarries, Bowral,…

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Struck by Car. Boy Seriously Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 7

While running across the roadway at Coogee, on Monday evening, Jack Holt, aged 10 years, of Clifford-Street, Coogee was knocked down by a motor…

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Dragged by Cycle Fettler Terribly Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 16

George Quigley railway fettler employed on the Dorrugo-Glenreagh railway was returning to his home at Dorrigo on Saturday night and when…

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Air Tragedy. Collision With. Tree Pilot Burnt to Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 9

The list of air tragedies was ad[?] to on 7th inst, when Flying Officer Herbert Wariand was burnt to death when his plane crashed six miles…

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Car Overturned Three Persons Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 7

Three persona were injured when a motor car turned over twice at Rouse Hill, thin morning through a tyre blowing out. The car was badly…

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Crashed. New Zealand Airmanbadly Injured. London, March 10

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 12

The New Zealand H.F. Mase who is planning a flight to New Zealand was badly injured when a machine was wrecked in a crash near…

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Eight Injured Car Crashes Into Cart. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 5

Willie travelling at a fast rate a motor car struck the near of a cart at Arnciffe this morning. Both vehicles overturned and eight…

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Floods in Alabama. Hundreds Refuge on Rooftops. Many Drowned. Fire Adds to Terrors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 7

Troy, Alabama is marooned and facing possible death from rapidly rising waters. Four thousand persons, constituting the entire population of Elba, 32 miles south of here, now await rescuers…

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Down Lift Well Electrician Badly Injured, Fell Eighty Feet. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 13

While working now a lift well, on the fifth floor of Bebarfald's new buliding at the corner of George and Park street city this morning…

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Hotel Gutted Disastrous Fire at Hongkong. Many People Killed and Injured. SHANGHAI, March 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 2

King Edward Hotel, the centre of the business district of Hongkong, was practically gutted by a spectacular fire of mysterious…

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Motor Accidents Serious Smash at Dungog

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 6

A very serious accident happened to a young man Frank Moore son of Mr. J.R. Moore of Dungog on Sunday morning at the intersection…

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Bank Clerk Accidentally Shot at Mhrriwa

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 16

Mr. R. H. McNell, relieving clerk at the Merriwa branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney was examining a revolver in…

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Hit-run Driver Hexham Motor Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 14

An accident at Hiexham on Saturday afternoon in which a motorist after crashing into a motoreycle is alleged to have driven on without stopping…

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Wrestling Drowning Beats M'dougall

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

At the Newcastle Stadium on Saturday evening, Jim Browning 15. 5 defeated Scotty McDougall, 15. 0 by one fall to nil. Both men indulged in…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 4

Clive Osborne, 26, of Lawes-street, East Maitland, was involved in a collision with a sulky, when riding his motor cycle on the East…

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Heeney Injured, New York. March 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 7

An infection that winy cause disfigurement has set in in a wound that Tom Heeney suffered inside his lipin his fight with Von Porat, It may…

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Attacked by Cow Horn Penetrates Thigh, Man Badly Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 5

George Cressey, a storekeeper, was crossing a paddock near his home at Alexandria, when a cow dashed at him, its horns entering one of…

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