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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 43 of 101

Strange Accident Woman's Fingers Severed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1929 · page 8

Mrs, Alice Williams, aged 31 years, who lives at Dudley, was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, with the fourth and…

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Air Disasters. Seaplane Nosedives. Four Passengers Drowned. Paris, May 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1929 · page 7

A seaplane, destined for Marseilles, when taking off at Algiers, nosedived, and sank in the harbour…

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Injured at Golf

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 May 1929 · page 2

Dr. R. S. Scott, of Greta, had a painful experience during a game of golf on Saturday afternoon. While attempting a drive he sent the ball…

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Woman Driver Arrested After Motor Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 May 1929 · page 2

Miss Thelma Norton (33), of independent means, was arrested in Melbourne, following a collision with a tram car and charged with being…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 May 1929 · page 10

Mr. Wilfred Hornery was the victim of a very nasty accident recently. Whilst effecting repairs to a lorry a piece of chipped steel flew…

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Fractured Skulls. Injured in Motor Collision Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 3

When a motor truck collided with a motor car at Haberfield early this morning, Frank Templeton and Norman Cuckson, occupants of the former…

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Cyclist Killed. Collision with Lorry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 11

When a motor lorry and a motor cycle came into collision at Campsie on Friday, the rider of the cycle and a boy who was travelling in a carrier…

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Leg Fractured Cyclist in Motor Collision

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 9

A collision occurred on 17th inst., at the corner of John and Harriet streets, Singleton, as a result of which Jack Hungerford 20, sustained…

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Thrown From Tram. Girl Terribly Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 9

Shocking injuries were sustained by Phyllis Edwards aged 14 of Kogarah, when she was thrown from a rapidly-moving electric train neat…

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Struck by Car Mother and Child Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 11

Mrs. Chasebrook, of Mayfield, and her three-year-old daughter Dcreen, were seriously injured on 17th nst., when knocked down by a motor cycle…

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Mortally Injured. Crushed by Pole. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 7

A man named Daniel Murphy, 46, a transport worker, was mortally injured when a pole fell off a sling in No. 1 hold of the steamer Karetu…

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Seriously Injured Motor Cycle and Bicycle Collide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 14

Two youths were injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a bicycle at Enmore on Sunday night. Ernest Childs, 13, the rider of the…

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Struck by Car. Boy Seriously Injured, Driver Arrested. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 7

Whilst a boy named Maher, eight years of age, was crossing the street near the Soldiers' Memorial this morning, he was knocked down by a…

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Shot Through Heart. Fatal Rifle Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 16

Frederick Douglas Hardwick, 24, a deckhand, on Monday was found lying dead in the forecastle of the Hobart River burge Swift with a bullet wound…

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Gun Exploded. Three Brothers Wounded Taree Accident. Taree

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 16

Three brothers, Alfred Kelly, 17, Percy, 15, and George, 18, were injured when a breech-leading gun exploded near Taree…

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Strange Accident Woman's Fingers Severed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 7

Mrs. Alice Williams, aged 31 years she lives at Dudley, was admitted to the Newcastle Hor[?] on Tuesday afternoon, with the fourth and…

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Football Accidents Player's Thigh Fractured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1929 · page 12

There were two unusual accidents at football matches in the Newcastle district on Saturday. While playing at Empire Park…

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Moir and Owen Found Machine Complete Wreck Owen Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 May 1929 · page 2

Flight-Lieutenant Moir and Flying-Officer Owen have been found. They landed in the vicinity of the Cape Don Lighthouse, on the Coburg Peninsula (Northern Australia),…

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Cessnock Collision Two Men in Sulky Injured. Car Driver Charged. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 4

After several adjournments, the charges against Alfred Beckett, arising out of a collision between his car and a sulky on November 10…

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Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 5

As the result of a motor lorry overturning, about half a mile on the Maitland side at Lochinvar last evening, two men were admitted to…

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