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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

274 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 14

To the Moon! Return Flight Without Accident Aerial Services’ Record

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 November 1927 · page 4

A half million miles flown without accident to passengers or pilots was completed by Australian Aerial Services Ltd. last Wednesday. This…

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Motor Accident. Two Men Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 November 1927 · page 2

Mr. R. D. Crompton, manager of North Wakool station and Mr. William Hendy, station employee, had a miraculous escape from death on…

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Serious Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 November 1927 · page 3

James Alexander of “Moonah,” with a very painful accident attending to his wood-sawing at Neimur railway station. It…

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Motor Collision on Tocumwal-berrigan Road

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 30 November 1927 · page 4

On Saturday night, 19th in[?] collision occurred on the Tocumwal-Berrigan road between [?] cars owned by Mr J. F. [?]…

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Football Fat[?] 17 Killed 100 Injured

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 30 November 1927 · page 2

The [?] of at least one branch of Am[?] sport was [?] by the announcement that 17 young men had been killed and 100…

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Girl's Leg Broken In Riding Accident

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 30 November 1927 · page 3

Whist mastering horses on Thursday of last week, Miss Jessie McRae of Rutherglen was thrown from her pony caused by the animal putting its…

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To the Moon Return Flight Without Accident. Aerial Services' Record

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 5

A half million mites flown without accident to passengers or pilots was completed by Australian Aerial Services Ltd. last Wednesday. This…

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Princess Victoria's Husband. Injured in Cycle Accident. OONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 2

A Berlin message states that the Russian, Zoubhkoff, whose recent marriage to the ex-Kaiser's sister, Princess Victoria, caused a sensation…

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Latest Telegrams. Washed Off Rocks. a Youth Drowned

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 2

While three young men were walking along the rocks at the northern end of Clovelly Bay, Sydney, on Sunday, they were washed off by a…

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Fatal Brew Riverina Sportsman Was Drowned in Beer(“khedive” Melbourne “Herald”)

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 4

In my boyhood the Red Lion Brewery at Hay (N.S.W. ) was famous throughout Western Riverina. It must have been good beer, for, years…

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The Bow Street Collision Car Driver Adjudged Guilty of Dangerous Driving

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 7 December 1927 · page 3

At the Corowa Police Court on Tuesday morning Christopher Henry Gale was charged before Mr. D. Parker, P.M., with driving a car in a…

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Man Drowned at Wangaratta

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 December 1927 · page 4

Edgar Jewhurst (58). departmental manager for Callauders Pty, Ltd., Wangaratta, by which he was employed for 27 years, was found…

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Accident at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 5

While Mr. Roy Burmister was working on an electrical installation at the Star Hotel, Rutherglen, on Tuesday last, he came in contact with a…

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Drowned in Murray River. D. D. ANDERSON

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 24 December 1927 · page 2

On Sunday morning last it was reported to the Swan Hill police that a man named David Duncan Anderson was missing from his home since…

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Serious Aeroplane Accident at Hay Aerodrome. the Satin Bird Crashes with Passengers. Pilot Daish and Three Others Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 December 1927 · page 2

The most serious aeroplane accident which has taken place af Hay or, we believe, to the 'planes of the Australian Aerial Services, Ltd…

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