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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

24 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 2 of 2

Drowning

The Picton Post · Wednesday 27 November 1912 · page 3

Prof. W. S. Whitford has tenaciously asserted for 40 years that in drowning so water enters the lungs. He has been almost alone in this opinion…

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Sad Buggy Accident. Death of Mr. Richard Todd, After 82 YEARS

Camden News · Thursday 5 December 1912 · page 3

Just after our going to Press last week news reached Camden that our late honored and respected townsman and schoolmaster of Mount Hunter, Mr. Richard Todd, had…

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Painful Accident

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 4

Kenneth Beatty was the victim of a shooting accident at Wingello on Friday morning, He was in a cart taking cherry boxes from the railway…

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Drowning Fatality. a Young Bather's Sad End

Camden News · Thursday 19 December 1912 · page 8

A young man named William Powell, aged 18, was drowned at Bringelly, on Sunday last, when bathing in a dam, with two younger boys, not able to swim he got out…

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