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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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Severe Accident. Man's Hand Blown Off

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 3

On Sunday last, a colored man, well-known in Kempsey and Macleay district, named George Davis, met with a very severe accident. He was out at…

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Craven Accident at State Mills

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 2

A sad accident occurred at the local State Wills on the morning of the 20th ultimo Three men, Mr. J. Bourke, Mr. T…

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Painful Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 4

ERIC CUMMING, the three-year-old son of of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cumming, met with a painful accident the other day. While playing the youngster jumped on a broken…

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Melbourne Commissioner of Police. Killed in a Motor Accident. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 3

Sir Geo. Stewart, Commissioner of Police, was killed in a motor accident in Melbourne to-day…

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Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 2

Mr. Sinclair, teacher at Berrico Public School, met with a painful accident at latter end of last week. It seems that his horse shied at Mr. Laurie's car, near…

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Accident to Mr. Roy Nicholls

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 May 1920 · page 4

ON Sunday last Mr. Roy Nicholls, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholls, of West Port Macquarie, was out riding with some friends at Ten-mile Creek, near Cathie,…

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Sixteen Injured. Tram Smash at Waterloo. Race Cars in Collision

The Northern Champion · Saturday 22 May 1920 · page 3

Sixteen persons were injured in a rear end collision between two crowded trams in Botanyroad, Waterloo, on Wednesday…

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Accidents

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 22 May 1920 · page 4

ON Wednesday morning, while proceeding to school, Albert Dick, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dick, trod on a sharp three-cornered fragment of tallow-wood, which deeply…

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Severe Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 2

Mr. Bowler, chief assistant at the Maclean post office (says "Daily Examiner") met with a painful accident on Tuesday. He was proceeding home…

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French President's Accident. Fall From Railway Carriage. Picked Up Unconscious

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 3

M. Deschanel, President of France, fell through an open door in the corridor of a railway carriage while travelling through France. He was picked…

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Dorrigo Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 4

A recent "Dorrigo Gazette" records the sudden death, in the scrub on Paddy's Pains, of Mr. Bernard Francis O'Sullivan, who, while cutting a…

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Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 2

Mr. T. Collins had his car lacerated, and was otherwise badly bruised and shaken, as a result of a sulky accident on Saturday last. Mr. Eddington, who was in the…

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Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 4

On Monday, at the Empire Day Sports, a little girl toddler, about 2 years old, fell off a seat, and broke one of her arms. Latest reports…

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Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 4

An accident, unfortunately attended with rather serious results, occurred on Sunday last. Mrs.. W. H. Byrnes, of Congarinni, was in a…

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Fatal Sulky Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 6

Mary McFarlaue, a widow, residing on O'Neill's Estate, Cessnock, was killed in a sulky accident in Vincent street on Saturday afternoon…

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Accident to a Child

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 4

An unfortunate accident occurred at Frederickton on Monday last during the Empire Day sports. A little girl named Doreen Miles fell from a swing and…

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Reviving the Drowned

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1920 · page 7

Many lives would be saved if there were only someone on the spot who knew how to deal with the victim of the bathing accident. Of course, it…

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Drowned in Fish Tank

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1920 · page 3

A boy between four and five years of age met a tragic death by falling into a tank full of water at the Brighton Aquarium…

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Peculiar Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1920 · page 4

A PECULIAR accident happened to a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Pegg. The little chap was playing in the vicinity of a cow, and the animal somehow got her horns…

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Craven an Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1920 · page 2

Some few days ago Mr. C. Stackman, whilst engaged drawing logs to the sawmill. met with a very painful accident He was in the act of applying the brake…

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