Five Deaths in Road Collision Man Gaoled For Three Years CANBERRA
David James Hamilton, laborer, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on a charge of manslaughter, at the Supreme Court to-day. The charge…
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Man Fatally Injured in Strange Accident
An inquest was held yesterday at Wagga into the death of Thomas Charles Cameron, who died from injuries received on Friday, June 14…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatally Injured When Horse Bolts
Whilst Joseph Frazer, aged 57, farmer, was proceeding to Wagga from Coolamon in a dray, drawn by two horses, the animals bolted, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatally Injured Mt. Gambier
Herbert Ivan Virgo, aged 37, of Yahl. was fatally injured when the motor truck he was driving collided with another truck 011 a bend of the…
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When a celuloid comb which he was playing with near an open fire burst into flames, Arthur, 14-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Phll. Spooner, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Accidents Must Be Stopped. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Many people have said that it seem[?] feeble at this time of war for us to strive for a reduction in road accidents in New South Wales. The…
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Many people have said that it seems feeble at this time of war for us to strive for a reduction in road accidents in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Bus Accident Sixteen Passengers Injured SYDNEY, Friday Noon
When a double-decker bus, with 40 passengers, crashed over a crumbling embankment in Reynolds Street, Cremorne, today, plunged through a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Electric Trains Collide One Killed, 13 Injured SYDNEY
One man was killed and 13 persons were injured to-day when two electric passenger trains collided head-on after one had hit the side of a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Accidents Must Be Stopped
Many people have said that it seems feeble at this time of war for as to strive for a reduction in road accidents in New South Wales. The…
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At midnight on Tuesday last the Road Safety Council had been advised of 37 deaths in road accidents during May. More than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Killed in Car Accident Melbourne
Two people were killed and four others injured to-night when a motor car after colliding with a cyclist on Lake Road, Albert Park, skidded and…
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Heard five miles away, an explosion wrecked, a small car on the main Brisbane-Warwick road near Mt. Edwards township on Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Fall From Plane a Remarkable Accident Wellington (N.z.)
While a Vincent bomber was flying over the Ohaken aerodrome to-day, a leading aircraftsman, who was a passenger, was seen to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thetis Disaster Finding Loss Was Accidental London, July 3
A jury at the last inquest on the 99 victims of the sinking of the submarine [?] during trails brought in a verdict that the loss of the submarine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daylight Raids in Britain Six Persons Killed Seventy-eight Injured Six Bombers Shot Down LONDON, July 4
Six German bombers were destroyed and four damaged by fighter planes during daylight raids on England and Scotland yesterday. The Germans made a series of hit-and-run attacks between dawn and dusk, dropping…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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 6 →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 6 →Injured Playing Football
Stanley (“Digger”) Dillon, aged 23, received slight head injuries whilst playing Rugby with Albury Reserves at The Rock yesterday. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclist Fatally Injured Melbourne
From injuries he received when the bicycle he was riding came into collision with the door of a stationary car in Camberwell road, Camberwell, on…
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