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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

211 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 11

Fell From Scaffolding Two Painters Badly Injured (By Wire) Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

Two painters fell about 30 feet in Prince Alfred Parade. They were painting the Exhibtion building when the scaffolding broke…

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This Morning's Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

A youth' named Harry Sams met with a painful accident this morning. He was riding a horse and collided with a motor car, breaking his…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 3

In the last couple of days the hand of Fate has pressed heavily on the household of Mr. W. Poignand. His little daughter was on Saturday…

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Street Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 5

Early last week a waggon with eight horses attached, bolted down the street and collided with the lamp post opposite Tattersalls Hotel. This…

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Prophecy Came True Returned Soldier Drowned

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 1

The sad fate of a returned soldier was the subject of a magisterial inquiry at Wagga, when Mr. Gibson (police magistrate) inquired into the…

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17 Jap Sailors Drowned Fatlity at Vancouver (By Wire) Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

Vancouver.—Seventeen Japanese sailors were drowned when a Japanese shore boat from the Japanese cruiser "Assama," capsized in…

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Fatal Accident Death of Mr. Don Cruickshank

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

Mr. W. M. Cruickshank received the sad news on Saturday that his brother Don had been killed by a motor lorry at Narromine that day…

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An Accident

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 3

Mrs. John Boardman, junr., of Bangaroo, Canowindra, is a patient in the Grantham Private Hospital, Canowindra, as the result of an accident…

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Serious Accident

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon as Mr. Jack Simeon was shoeing one of Mr. A. W. Whitney’s thoroughbreds, it reared and striking him on the top of the…

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Street Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 4

Early last week a waggon with eight horses attached, bolted down the street and collided with the lamp post opposite Tattersalls Hotel. This…

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Painful Lift Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 13

Mr. Charles Venables, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Venables, of Parkes. who is a motor mechanic employed at the New Century Press, Kent St.,…

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Forbes Man Killed. in Sydney Tram Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 10

News reached Forbes last night that Mr. Michael Phillip Francis, of Calarie, Forbes, met with a fatal tram accident in Sydney last night…

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Street Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 4

Early last week a waggon with eight horses attached, bolted down the street and collided with the lamp post opposite Tattersalls Hotel. This…

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Drowning Fatality

Western Champion · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 15

A sad drowning fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon, when Cecil William (16) son of Mr. Joseph Wilson, of Coobang, was drowned in the…

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THE Western Champion AND Parkes and District Representative. Thursday, February 19. Plumber Injured

Western Champion · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 14

Mr. Ray Pritchard, employed by Mr. George Lewis, received a nasty gash on the shin while engaged in repairs to the gas service at St…

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Found Drowned Fatality at Ungarie

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last the body of a man named John Rees was found in the railway dam at Ungarie. Deceased was about 44 years of…

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Street Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 5

Early last week a waggon with eight horses attached, bolted down the street and collided with the lamp post opposite Tattersalls Hotel. This…

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Fatality at Whitton Child's Body Found

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 2

A three-year-old child named Saunders wandered away from a picnic party from Yenda who were camped on the Murrumbidgee near Whitton…

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4U Injured Motor Bus Accident By Wire, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 2

Nearly to passengers were injured [?] a motor ous accident lat night on the western road to parramatta, [?] only one seriously…

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Drowned in Dam Death From Strangulation

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 3

Mrs. Ellen M[?]rtin Smith, who had been living an the Condobolin Road, Forbes, was missing from her home on Saturday last. Owing to her…

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