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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 61 of 66

Accident on Hume Highway Motor Car Overturns

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 November 1935 · page 3

A motor car accident which occurred last week on the Hume Highway, near Mundarlo. was responsible for the death of two people, Mr…

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Bush Fires Accident Insurance Scheme Discussion at Conference

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 November 1935 · page 1

At the bushfire conference of the North-Eastern Bush Fire Brigades' Association, held at Rutherglen; there were delegates from all parts…

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Motor Cyclist Killed Swerved to Avoid Accident. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 November 1935 · page 4

George Edward Jones, 24 single of Fitzgibbon street, Parkville, motor mejehanic was fatally inured today when he was thrown from his…

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Did you know That...? “Accident” That is Necessary: Diamonds as Steel-Testers Size of the World’s Tiniest Object

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 November 1935 · page 4

So Perfectly ordered is the universe —and indeed all Nature—that it seems very strange that the earth should be set “askew,” so to speak…

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Youth Fatally Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 1

A YOUNG man named Albert Lewis (aged about 24 years) died at Denliquin Hospital this afternoon from a Tractured base of his skull…

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Fatality at Cootamundra. Youth's Shocking Death. COOTAMUNDRA

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 2

Roy Masterton (20), believed to be a resident of Coburg, Vic., met a shocking death at the local railway station last night, when he slipped…

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Motor Train Hits Truck Two Young Men Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 1

The motor train from Deniliquin struck a motor truck at a crossing a short distance north of Moira siding yesterday…

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Fishermen Nearly Drowned Their Boat Capsizes in Water for Half an Hour Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 4

Two fishermen had narrow escapes from drowning when their boat was caught in a strong southerly off the rocks at Harbord and capsized…

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Accident on Hume Highway Husband and Wife Killed

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 1

A MOTOR car. accident which occurred last week on the Hume Highway, near Mundarlo, was responsible for the death of two people,…

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Drowning at Moulamein

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 30 November 1935 · page 3

On Tuesday evening the Methodist Missionary named Trior was drowned at Moulamein. The unfortunate man, who was 25 years of age, went…

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Linesman Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 November 1935 · page 2

When a State Electricity van and a sedan motor car came into collision at the corner of Salisbury and Herding streets, Coburg, at 7.30 a..m…

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Mother Accidentally Scalds Daughter

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 November 1935 · page 4

At Young Mrs. Flowell threw a saucepan of boiling water out of the back door of her home just as her seven-year-old daughter, unnoticed,…

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Wounding Charge Laborer is Acquitted “Shooting Was Accidental” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 November 1935 · page 7

At the Central Criminal Court today Douglas Cecil Burrell. 28, laborer, was acquitted on a charge of having feloniously wounded Albert Zahira…

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Sisters Perish Drowning Tragedies Week-end Toll Four Children are Victims MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 December 1935 · page 1

TWO sisters were drowned at Elwood this afternoon, and a boy was drowned in a dam at Kilcunda At Elwood another boy…

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Riots in India Sequel to Destruction of Mosque Three Killed; 25 Injured Lahore, December 1

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 December 1935 · page 4

As a sequel to the demolition of the Shahidjung Mosque by Sikhs in July last, a series of demonstrations culminating in rioting between Sikhs…

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Melrose Injured Makes Forced Landing ’Plane Hits Stump Young Aviator Receives Concussion SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 December 1935 · page 1

C. J. Melrose, the Young Australian airman, who recently flew from London, was injured this afternoon when he made a forced…

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Safety on the Road. Drivers Mostly Responsible for Accidents

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 5 December 1935 · page 4

The greatest surveys ever taken in the world to ascertain the faults of motor car drivers and of their machines, was recently concluded in…

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Methodist Missionary Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 December 1935 · page 3

In the Edwards river at Moulamein on November 20, Rev. W. J. Pricy, Methodist Missionary was drowned while bathing…

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Items of News Pram and Car Involved in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 December 1935 · page 6

Two children aged about 12 months, were thrown to the ground when a pram in which they were riding, and a car, came into collision…

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Aviator Melrose Injured In Forced Landing. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 December 1935 · page 1

C. J. Melrose, who recently flew from London, was injured yesterday, afternoon, when he made a forced landing at Penrose, near Bundanoon…

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