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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

564 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 29

Shire Councillors in Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 30

A party of Euroa shire councillors set out from Echuca to visit Kerang. When seven miles out of Echuca a tyre of one car blew out, causing the…

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Car Crashes Into Canal Accident Near Griffith

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 35

When a car ran off the greasy road four and a half miles from Griffith on Saturday afternoon, and crashed headlong into the main irrigation canal, two…

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Chapter of Serious Accidents Car on Railway Line Wild Plunge Over Drains

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 35

Four Melbourne residents were injured when the motor car in which they were travelling failed to negotiate a bend on the Hume Highway…

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Accidents and Fires How Much Is Wood to Blame

The Pastoral Times · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 2

WHY blame wood? is the question asked in the monthly news of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Division of Forest Products,…

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Rescue of Girl Big Fire at Orange Three Firemen Injured

The Independent · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 2

Three firemen were injured, and a waitress was rescued on the point of suffocation in a fire which severely damaged the Central Hotel,…

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Britain's 1936 Road Accidents

The Independent · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 1

In 1936 there were 6,561 people killed in road accidents in Great Britain as compared with 6,502 in 1985. The number of accidents…

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Tragedy at Hopefield Young Girl Shot Dead Accident with Pea Rifle

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 3

A very, sad fatality happened at Hopefield on Sunday when a young girl lost her life by a cruel trick of Fate, and her fam…

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Car Accident Man and Woman Badly Hurt

The Independent · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 3

When a car in which they were travelling from Griffith to Junee capsized on Sturt Highway a young man and a young woman were seriously…

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Players Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 38

Jim Stiegenberger, coach of Balldale, was injured when playing against Chiltern. He was taken to Corowa Hospital, where an X-ray examination…

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Pilot Badly Injured Plane Crashes Near Gunbower

The Pastoral Times · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 1

When circling over Gunbower, near Echuca, at 2,50 p.m. on Wednesday, an Air Force plane piloted, by Air-Cadet Arthur Laurie Davies…

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Two Injured When Car Hits Pole Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 5

When a car skidded mid crashed into a telegraph pole at Kogarah early; this morning, David Robert Provan, 37, suffered a fractured skull…

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Peculiar Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 39

While William Hunt, 39 years, (married, of Willowgrove (Vic), was snugging the Narraean Creek near Moe, a tree which was being removed…

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Minister's Wife and Daughter in Motor Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 8

Mrs. Thorby, wife of the Acting Minister for Defence, and Miss Thorby were injured in a motoring accident at Molong. They were proceeding by…

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Petrol Iron Explodes. a Swan Hill Accident. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 3

When a petrol iron exploded in a house at Swan Hill, igniting the clothing of Miss Mary Sherwell, she rushed from the house and jumped in to an…

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Painful Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 1

Max the mall son of Mr and Mrs D. C. Vinecombe, of Thule Barham met with an extremely gainful accident last week Hi mother was…

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Millie Greek Tragedy Murder Charge Against Labourer Police Find Injured Man

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 3

At the Central Police Court on Saturday night, Harold Thomas Mullen, aged 36 years,labourer, was charged by provisional warrant, with having…

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Footballers Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 9

Twenty-four De La Salle Old Boys while on their way from Cootamundra to Junee for a football match, wore involved in an accident on Five Mile…

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Washed From Rocks and Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 39

Washed by a huge wave from a rocky ledge, whore he was fishing at the base of a prepicitous 200-foot cliff, Robert Mildred 34 years…

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Hand Injured by Saw

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 1

Mr. Chas Campbell, carpenter, a president of Charlotte street, had his hand torn by a circular saw he was using at his workshop yesterday…

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Twenty Strikers Injured New York, May, 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 14

In Chicago 20 strikers were injured,two of them seriously, when 1000 marching upon the Republic Steel Corporation's plant were beaten…

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