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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

1,226 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 62

Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 1

A most unfortunate accident befel Colin Hardes, aged 8 years. The little chap, who comes from Dartmouth, was riding in the vicinity of the Aberdeen…

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Railway Freaks Advertising an Accident a Runaway Engine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 8

Mr. Samuel Robertson, the station-master, was strolling up and down the freshly gravelled platform of a quiet little station in…

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Cyclist Killed Collision with Car LITHGOW

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1933 · page 2

In an accident here on Saturday night, Thomas Wright, 38, single, of Lithgow, suffered terrible injuries, and died soon afterwards…

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Critically Hurt Train Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1933 · page 2

Mrs. Jessie Herrick, 50, of Chiswick-road, Auburn, was critically injured, when she struck by a train while attempting to cross the [?] at…

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Footballer Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 6

As a result of the week-end football, two players are now receiving medical attention. O. Adnum injured his shoulder, whilst Sawyers is suffering…

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Boy Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 2

While running across the roadway in Gerald Park on Saturday afternoon in quest of a tennis ball little Peter Vivash was knocked down by a motor…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 2

Struck by a fall of coal in BellBird Colliery yesterday, John McLean, 24, received injuries to the head, and was admitted to cessnock…

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Win for Blay Delaney's Injured Hand SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 2

Bobby Blay was declared the winner over Bobby Delaney, a former lightweight champion, at the termination of the seventh round, in their…

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Accident Sequel Car Driver Fined Failed to Stop Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 7

Thomas Reddam, of Paxton, was charged before Mr. J. B. Scobie, P.M., at the Cessnock Court to-day with having failed to stop his car after an…

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Failed to Stop After Accident Motorist Fined. Wollombi Road Incident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 3

Before Mr. J. B. Scoble, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court to-day, Thomas Roddom was charged with failing to stop his car after an…

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Baby Drowned Hexham Tragedy NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 August 1933 · page 8

Falling into a creek a baby girl a year and seven months old, was drowned in pathetic circumstances at Hexham yesterday…

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Child Drowned in Creek Tragedy at Hexham

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 August 1933 · page 2

A baby girl, a year and seven months old, was drowned in pathetic circumstances at Hexham yesterday. The child was Amelia Elizabeth…

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Car Crashed Adjutant Injured Hitler's Escape Munich, Aug. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 August 1933 · page 1

The German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, escaped injury white motoring on the Austro-Bavarian frontier, when an accident befel a car immediately…

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Man Critically Injured Unattended Car Dashes Into Hotel. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 August 1933 · page 2

Paul Wishart, aged 72, a wharf labourer, was critically injured in Market-street, City, this morning when an unattended car careered down the…

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Accident While Ploughing

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 August 1933 · page 2

Mr G. A. Cameron, of Camberwell, was ploughing on Monday afternoon, when the plough jambed and tipped Over at a corner of the field. Mr…

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Painful Accident Mr. J. R. Lewis

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 17 August 1933 · page 5

Mr. J. R. Lewis, manager of Hebburn, No. 2 Colliery, met with a painful accident at his home on Monday, While carrying a large glass…

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Drowning Case

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 August 1933 · page 4

A retired farmer, John Dempsey, aged 75, disappeared from his home at Akarana, Wagga, on Monday, and his body was found floating in the…

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Pea-rifle Fatality

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 August 1933 · page 4

Unaware that it was loaded, Roy Percy Smith, aged 15, of Emerald Hill, near Gunnedah, picked up a pea-rille from a motor-car on Wednesday, and…

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Eye Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 August 1933 · page 5

Fred Terry, a rellef worker, employed by the Yass Municipal Council, was using a plek in a quarry. When a place of metal the else of a…

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Floods in Jamaica Seventy Persons Drowned

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 August 1933 · page 1

A message from Kingston (Jamaica) states that seventy persons were drowned in floods in the city and in the parishes of St. Thomas, St. Catherine, and…

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