Fatal Accident. Bike and Rider Crash Into Tree
The death occurred in the M.R.D. Hospital. Taree, on Friday night last of Mr. Gordon William Webster, of Coopernook, aged about 35 years…
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Fatal Accident. Bike and Rider Crash Into Tree
The death occurred in the M.R.D. Hospital, Taree, on Friday night last of Mr. Gordon William Webster, of Coopernook, aged about 35 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Portland Cement A Lost Secret Restored by an Accident
Like so many other everyday commodities—stainless steel, the fountain pen, linoleum, to mention only a few—Portland cement owes its origin to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Art of Lithography Discovered by an Accident
It is believed that the art of lithography was accidentally discovered about 1800, by Alois Senefelder, who was born in Prague, Bohemia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident at Railway. Bob Fordham Severely Injured
An accident to Bob Fordham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fordham, in which he sustained a broken right leg, and had the toes of his left foot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured While Shunting
On Saturday morning last Mr. William Pearce, a member of the railway staff at Kempsey, had a narrow and fortunate escape from serious injury…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Accident. Boy's Fractured Skull
A serious accident occurred at Tibuc yesterday as the result of which a boy named Woodcock, aged 12, was admitted to hospital in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Portland Cement. a Lost Secret Restored by Accident
Like so many other everyday commodifies--stainless steel, the fountain pen, linoleum, to mention only a few--Portland cement owes its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cars in Collision
Monday afternoon, in Smith-street near the Bank Corner, a lorry came into collision with a baker's delivery truck and toppled the latter over on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shocking Fatality Child Killed at Timber Dump
A shocking fatality occurred at East Kempsey timber dump on Thursday last, when Henry John Wicks, six-year-old son of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident. at Gloucester Station
Whilst seeing off a brother leaving by the Kempsey mail on Saturday night for camp in the A.I.F., Mr. Ben Fordham met with a shocking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motors in Collision
On several occasions following accidents at the spot, we have drawn attention to the dangerous interesction at Queen and Barring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Railway. Bob Fordham Severely Injured
All accident to Bob Fordham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fordham, in which he sustained a broken right leg, and had the toes of his left foot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shocking Fatality. Child Killed at Timber Dump
A Shocking fatality occurred at East Kempsey timber dump on Thursday of last week, when Henry John Wicks, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Don…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Risks That Cause Accidents
I suppose there aren't many motorists who have not had the experience of either bumping into the roar of another car or of being bumped on the rear of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Risks That Cause Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)
I suppose there aren't many motorists who have not had the experience of either bumping into the rear of another car or of being bumped on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Accident. Boy's Skull Fractured
A serious accident occurred at Tibuc on Monday as the result of which a boy named Woodcock, aged 12, was admitted to hospital in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youth Injured
Ron Burnett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Burnett, of Central Kempsey, sustained a painful injury to his hand on Saturday last. An employee of T…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Child Injured
On Monday morning Ken, the 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Dodds, of West Kempsey, was playing in the yard when he sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured Man"s Agonising Crawl
With his left leg badly shattered by the discharge from two barrels of a shotgun, Gordon Bramwell Sewell, 36, single, of Metz, near Armidale,…
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