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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

232 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 12

DAIRYING. Accidental Abortion in the Herd. Some Unsuspected Causes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 June 1918 · page 4

How easily contagious abortion can be communicated in a herd and from one herd to another, and with what suspicion any possible case should be…

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Dreadful Drowning Tragedy Farmer and Three Children. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 June 1918 · page 3

While Mr. H. Judson, a well-known, farmer of Newstead, Victoria, was tak­ing his two sons and the two daughters of Mr. J. Sullivan to school to-day, the…

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Accidental Abortion in the Herd. Some Unsuspected Onuses

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 17

How easily contagious abortion can be communicated in a hard and from one herd to another, and with what suspicion any possible case should be regarded, most…

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Fearful Railway Accident in America. a Military Train Telescopes a Circus Special. Sixty-nine Deaths Reported. Vancouver

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

A Chicago message says that 69 were killed when the Michigan Central army equipped train crashed into a Hagenbeck circus train at…

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Exulting Experience at Bonegilla Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 4

A party of young, people consisting of the Misses Pollard (2), Bourke, Banon, and Diffey, of Barnawartha, and Messrs Baker, A. Rapsey and Diffey, had a very…

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Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 3 July 1918 · page 2

A man named Matthew Howard was admitted to the Hospital on Monday evening last suffering from a severe cut on the foot, made by an axe. while wood…

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Girl's Spine Injured Claim for £5000

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1918 · page 3

A claim for £5000, in respect of an accident to a girl at the Coonamble School of Arts, engaged the attention of Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury of four in…

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Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 July 1918 · page 2

An accident which might have been attended with fatal results happened to Mr. J. T. Mackie, of Wunnatnurra, while returning…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 31

A number of young people had an exciting experience at Bonegilla on Sunday afternoon. A party of young people consisting of the Misses Pollard (2), Bourke…

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Motor Car Tyre Bursts Four Persons Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 3

As the result of a motor car accident which took place on St. Kilda road on Thursday, four persons were injured, and one of them, a returned soldier, is now…

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A River Steamer Wrecked. Hundreds of Excursionists Drowned

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 July 1918 · page 2

The excursion boat Columbia has been wrecked in the Illinois River, America. Hundreds were drowned…

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Strange Fatality

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 2

An exchange relates a very strange story of how a young man met an untimely end through a trifling cause, It appears that this…

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Express Dashes Into Truck Accident at Wagga Station. Sleeping Gar Damaged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 July 1918 · page 2

The Sydney limited, express yesterday morning when entering the Wagga railway station, at about 5.24 a.m., on its way to Albury, dashed into a bogey truck, which…

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Man Cut in Two by Truck Shocking Accident at Wagga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 July 1918 · page 4

A railway fatality occurred at the siding behind the [?]gga goods shed on Thursday morning, when Bartholomew Wheeler, an employe on the permanent way, was…

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Hurdler Drowned in Drain Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 4

My Silver King, the hurdle-racer, which competed at recent Canterbury Park and Warwick Farm meetings, fell into a dram in a paddock adjoining the Randwick…

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A Ship Sunk by Collision. Buenos Ayres

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 2

The 4000-ton British steamer Induna has been sunk by collision. A few persons were saved…

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Racehorse Drowned

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 July 1918 · page 1

My Silver King was drowned in drain In a paddock adjoining Randwick racecourse: this is the aecon victim, as Agincourt met his death In…

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Shocking Fatality at Wagga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 July 1918 · page 33

A distressing railway fatality ocurred at the siding behind the Wagga goods shed on Thursday, July 11, when Bartholomew Wheeler, an employe on the permanent…

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Items of News Motor Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 19 July 1918 · page 5

On Monday afternoon last Mr. D Brady, of Finley, was driving his car from Finley to Tocumwal, and when nearing the local facecourse…

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Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 19 July 1918 · page 2

A painful accident happened to Mr. W. E, Pepper on Tuesday last. He was engaged at the crane in the local railway yard, when o[?]e band…

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