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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

168 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 9

Motor Bus Fatality. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 5

A boy named Lawrence Bennett, of Rozelle, was run over by a motor bus yesterday and killed. His head and body were terribly crushed…

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Accidentally Smothered. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 5

Mrs. Tatham, of Darling-street, Balmain, was accidentally smothered in her bed yesterday…

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Cycle Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

A party of Kempsey Boy Scouts set out on cycles for Crescent Head on Saturday afternoon, intending to visit the seaside and return by nightfall. All…

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Local and General News. Accidents at Tennis

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1923 · page 4

SAYS the "Wingham Chronicle": On Saturday afternoon, during the course of a tennis match on Wingham courts, Dr. Kelly and Mr. George McCullooh, who…

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Terrible Accident

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 2

On Monday morning Mr. James Herkes was driving a team of bullocks towards Wingham, when he met Mr. E. Johnston coming across Ashlea…

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Soldiers Monuments and Accidents

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 6

Kipling's statement that it will take the world a long while to gather up and put away the pieces left by the Great War applies again and again to…

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Metropolitan Football Accidents

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 5

Saturday football matches produced a heavy crop of accidents, more or less serious.—A.Miller, playing for New Zealand Universities against Sydney…

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Accident on Ashlea Bridge

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 4

ON Monday morning Mr. James Herkes was driving a team of bullocks towards Wingham, when he met Mr. E. Johnston coming across…

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Accidents and Sickness

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 June 1923 · page 5

Neville Wilkes, aged seven, son of Mr. G. Wilkes, of Willi Willi, was admitted to the District Hospital on Tuesday evening and was operated on…

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Suspended. Burringbar-benelon Collision

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 June 1923 · page 1

The Marine Court on Thursday concluded its investigation into the collision between the steamship Burring-bar and the ferry boat Benelon in…

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Sulky Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 6 June 1923 · page 4

While driving a sulky in Kemp-street on Tuesday of last week, the children of Mr. H. McGuire had a narrow escape from serious injury…

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Blue Paper. an Accident That Started a Fashion and Made a Fortune

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1923 · page 7

To-day we are so accustomed to coloured papers, both for writing and decorative purposes, that little or no attention is paid to their shades…

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Accident at Wauchope Ferry

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 2

Considerable excitement occurred at the ferry crossing the river at Wauchope when a large two-ton motor lorry, owned by Mr. Schubert of the…

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Accident at Eungai

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 2

On Saturday last Mr. H. W. Eather, representative pig buyer on the Manning for Barnes and Co., of Sydney met with an accident near Eungai on…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 2

A fatal burning accident occurred at Craven Creek on Tuesday afternoon last, the little daughter, Lillian, of Mr. and Mrs. H. Johstone, aged six years,…

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Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 4

On Thursday Mr. Elisha Byrnes, of Eungai, met with a very painful accident. He was engaged in timber-getting when a log rolled on him and…

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Local and General News. A Peculiar Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 4

ON Thursday last, when Mr. George Edwards, Town Clerk of Port Macquarie, had finished shaving, he stropped his razor on the leg of his pyjamas. The razor slipped…

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Fatal Gun Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 4

SAYS the "Richmond River Herald" On Monday last Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bugdea's 10-year-old son, Thomas, left home to go shooting. The…

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Another City Collision. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 3

A head-on collision occurred with a motor car and a tram opposite Grace Brothers, Sydney, last night. Ernest Haig, of Marrickville, 21, probably…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 2

A fatal burning accident occurred at Craven Creek on Tuesday afternoon last, the little daughter, Lilian, of Mr. and Mrs. H. Johnstone, aged six years…

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