Shop Assistant Injured In Fall
When she fell and struck her bead while at work late yesterday day afternoon Miss Norma West an employee of Woolworth’s…
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Injured In Cycle Accident
When he tried to avoid an accident this morning Ernest Bulbert, 24, received a fracture of the left fem[?]r and shock. His…
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Carl Adolph Benz, of Henley Park, South Australia, died in an ambulance on his way to hospital after being accidentally shot Benz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby Drowned in Copper
Beverley Rumbel, 12 months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Rombel, of Vacy, was drowned in an old copper at their home…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dispatch Rider Injured
Douglas Bennet, 21, a despatch rider, [?] a small chip of wood embedded in his forehead, and received abrasions to his chin,…
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An electric light pole swinging from a crane crashed through the side of a carriage of a speeding passenger train at…
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NEW YORK June 1.— A freak tidal wave burned by high winds swept a 50 foot wall of water along the shore of the…
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WASHINGTON June 1.— Four officers of a submarine believed to be Italian laughed from the conning tower as they watched…
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One soldier and one civilian were killed and two soldiers injured at East Maitland goods yard on Saturday morning when an electric light pole…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—Two of the three midget Japanese submarines sunk in the attack on Sydney Harbour on Sunday night have been located on the harbour bed, and the approximate position of the third…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident at Woodville
When he collided with a motor truck at Woodville to-day Kevin A. Dale 19, received injuries to the right shoulder and shock . He…
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CESSNOCK Tues.— Two mine [?] were injured at mines to-day. At Bllbin [?] William Cang 33, of Gordon Avenue…
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A freak tidal wave,, churned by high winds, swept a 50-foot wall of water along the shore of the Lake Eire resort area north-east of…
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Beverley Rumbel, 12-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Rumbel, of Vacy, was drowned in an old copper at their home…
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SYDNEY Thursday.— Margarat Norman, 20, of Fourth Avenue, Macquarie Fields, suffered probably [?]ractured skill when she…
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SYDNEY Thursday—A large quantity of matches will not reach purchasers as the result of a [?]ollision between two vehicles at…
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One soldier and one civilan was killed and two soldiers injured at East Maitland when an electric light pole being unloaded from a railway truck hit a passenger train…
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MELBOURNE Saturday Betty June Norris, aged 1 year and a months was drowned in [?] air-raid shelter at her home…
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SYDNEY Saturday—[?] Pickering, aged one year and nine months, was drowned in a slit trench at the rear of her home…
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NEWCASTLE Saturday—When a motor car overturned at Young Wallsend last night, five of seven passenger were injured. The…
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