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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 77

Car Overturns Man and Wife Injured Dungog Accident Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 5

As the result of an accident about three miles from Dungog this morning, when a car skidded and turned over, an old man and his wife were…

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Woman Drowned Boating Tragedy Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 3

When out boating in Rantitoto Channel at the entrance to Auckland Harbour, Mrs. Dorothy Jane Thomson, aged 23, was drowned…

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Fire Causes Panic Six Killed and Many Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) CHICAGO

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 1

Six persons were killed and 30 injured, some seriously, when a fire broke out in a suburban road-house before dawn this morning…

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Football Accident Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 2

Henry Ridley, 19, and Jack [?] both of Cessnock, were injured [?] playing football yesterday. The [?] was admitted to hospital…

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Young Man Dies From Fractured Skull Appeared All Right After Accident. Bega

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 2

Thomas Donnelly, aged 22, of Sydney, died here in hospital yesterday from a fractured skull received in a motor accident when he and a companion were…

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Motor Accident. Car Capsizes. Two Seriously Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 2

A serious motor accident occurred on the main Maitland road about one mile south of "Cangon," Dungog, at 9 o'clock this (Monday) morning,…

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Race for Life with Injured Timber Worker

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 1

Workmates of William Pitkin, 20, timber-worker, of Horton's Creek, 40 miles from Grafton, and the Grafton Ambulance, on Friday figured in a…

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Football Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 1

The football season opened unofficially on Sunday last, and three of the unfortunate players will have cause to remember the opening of the 1935…

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Willard Brown Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 9

While sparring yesterday afternoon, Williard Brown, the American boxer, sustained a nasty cut over the eye. He was to have fought Bobby Wilson,…

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Two Injured Motor Gars Collide SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 5

When two motor cars collided at Concord last night, one overturned and was badly damaged. William Hellyer, 49, of The Avenue,…

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Horse Destroyed After Accident

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 2

On Saturday night, at about 7.30 o'clock Mr S. Moore, of Glenridding, was riding a horse along the Glenridding-road, about one mile from…

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Train Smash Collision Near Kempsey Three Injured Kempsey

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 2

In the Kempsey railway yards last night the Brisbane to Sydney night express train crashed into a stationary goods train. The…

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Eye Injured by Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 4

While Mr. Victor Ptolemy was preparing a cow for the Kempsey show, the animal suddenly raised its head, and one of its horns was thrust into…

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Car Accident at Brookfield

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 1

As the result of an accident about three miles from Dungog on Monday morning when a car skidded and turned over an old man and his wife were seriously…

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Collision

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 2

No one was injured and little damage caused on Wednesday afternoon when a car, driven by Mrs. L. O. Rutherford, and a lorry belonging…

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Accident at Baerami. Collision with Gate Post

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 10

Clive Merrick, aged 18 years, of Denman, sustained serious injuries to his hands and face, when a motor cycle he was riding came into collision with…

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Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 5

Ridding a motor cycle and crashing into a gate in a falling light. Clive Merrick 18, of Ogilvie-street, Denman, received extensive cuts to the head, face,…

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Goods Train Wrecked. Kempsey Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 2

The Brisbane to Sydney express fruit train crashed into a stationary goods train in the Kempsey yards on Wednesday night. The front sections…

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Constable Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 2

Constable R. P. Mason, who was riding a bicycle at Wickham early last night, was struck by a motor-car. He was thrown heavily to the…

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Tragic Happening Attended Sister's Funeral at Cessnock—Critically Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 1

John McMillan, 46, of Tureamurra, sustained a fractured spine, fractured ribs and other injuries when a motor lorry he was under got away and…

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