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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Motor Car and Bicycle Collide Accident to a Small Boy. Who Claims Damages From a Goolagong Grazier. Verdict for Defendant

Cowra Free Press · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 5

In the District Court this morning Nigel Higgs claimed £150 from George Wright, of Goolagong, as damages for injuries caused by…

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Coroner's Inquest. Fatality at Quandialla

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 3 August 1925 · page 2

THE Coroner (Mr. A. A. Bradley) held an inquest at Bimbi on Friday last concerning the death of John Powell, who was found dead at Quandialla on…

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Motorists at Law Damages Claimed for Results of a Collision. £10 Awarded to Plaintiff

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 4 August 1925 · page 3

Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, S.M., this morning Mrs. Hilda Tompkins sued Arthur Stephen Lane claiming £10 for damages alleged to have been…

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Accidental Death

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1925 · page 2

An inquest was held at Bimbi on Friday by the District Coroner, Mr. A. A. Bradley, touching the death of John Powell, who was found dead at…

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Two Women Injured a Surrey Hills Affair (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 1

Two women found in Silk Street' Surry Hills, were admitted to Hospital but declined to tell the police now they met with their injuries…

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Driving Accident Three Admitted to Hospital

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 4

A motor car and sulky collided opposite the Drill Hall on Monday night last, with serious results to some of the occupants. The car was driven by…

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Five Killed Fifteen Injured Wallsend Colliery Explosion London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 1

A Reuters' message states that five were killed and 15 injured by an explision in a colliery at Wallsend…

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Complimentary Concert to Injured Footballer

Cowra Free Press · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 5

Local sports turned up in full force to the concert in the Centennial Hall to do their bit in showing practical sympathy with Mr. “Bimbi” Gordon,…

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Mine Deputy Killed Collision With Car (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 1

John Devlin, a mine deputy; was killed instantly on the South Coast road early this morning. He was riding to work on a bike…

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Car Capsizes Driver Seriously Injured (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 1

Harry Roach, of Ashfield, was seriously injured when a motor car he was driving capsized on the railway line between Camden and…

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Car Plunges Into River Mother and Two Sons Drowned (By Cable) Wellington, N.Z.

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 1

A woman and her two sons were drowned when a motorist crashed through a projecting fence and plunged 20 feet into the deep water of the…

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Motor Accidents

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 1

Between 1st January and 30th September 1924, there were 4888 motor accidents in New South Wales, 84 of which were attended with fatal…

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Serious Motor Accident Occupants Badly Injured

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 2

On Saturday evening Mr. J. Walker and a number of friends went for a run to Woodstock in that gentleman’s recently purchased Morris - Cowley…

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Deaths From Baptisms. African Natives Drowned. (Austral Press Cable.) CAPETOWN

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 2

The Bulawayo "Chronicle" states the deaths reported of natives slaughtered by a native fanatic were caused by native baptism in a river in the…

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Accidents and Illness of Council Employees

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 2

One day recently [?] Mr. Roger Sheehy was engaged at his work at the electric light station lie slipped and snapped the muscles of one of…

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An Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 27 August 1925 · page 15

One of the shearers at the sports at Orange Plains was thrown from a horse in a race, and was removed to the shearers' quarters in an…

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Side-show Performer Injured

Cowra Free Press · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 6

Some excitement was caused at the “Globe of Death” side-show at Brisbane showground, when one of the Staig Sisters was injured. A large…

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Drowned in Yarra. Two Young Women. Melbourne

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 2

The bodies of two young women were, recovered from the Yarra River yesterday…

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Wyalong Advocate. TUESDAY, 1st SEPTEMBER, 1925 Car Overturns Miss Warren Seriously injured Steering Cear Fails Lad's Arm Badly Fractured Other Mishaps

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 2

Mr. Jack Gibbons, Miss Edie Warren and Mr Harold Lowrie were proceeding from West Wyalong to Calleen on Sunday morning, and when…

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An Imaginary Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 3 September 1925 · page 2

The sun was shining brightly one July morning as I walked at a brisk pace toward the sports ground where sports were being held. When I…

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