Most in History Fatal Car Accidents in U.S. WASHINGTON, December 31
It is announced that 35,708 persons, the largest number in history, were killed in automobile accidents in 1936…
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Accidents, 1937
2,384 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 120
Farnes Loses Mother Killed in Motor Accident London
Mrs. Florence Farnes. 58, mother of Kenneth Fames, the Essex fast bowler now with the M.C.C. team in Australia was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unusual Accident on a Train Shattered Bottle Rebounds Sydney
Mrs. Helen Selon, of Belves-street, Penshursl, was injured on the face last night by fragments of a bottle thrown from a window of a railway carriage in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Accident in Soccer Ball Makes Player Partly Blind London
Alex Finney. Bolton Wanderers' left back, has been the victim of one of the strangest accideits that ever occurred on a soccer field…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day's Accidents Shoulder Dislocated
Tripping on a mat at her home this morning. Mrs. E. Campbell, of Kemp-street. Hamilton, had her right shoulder dislocated. Newcastle ambulance took her to the…
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When the chain came off a bicycle he was riding down the Beresfield Hill on the Newcastle-road on Saturday after-noon, Henry Charles Tame, 15, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sailor Injured Ship's Dash to Port SYDNEY
After a 13-hour dash along the South Coast, the Port Bowen reached Sydney early yesterday morning with an injured sailor on board…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Girl Drowned Jammed in Capsized Yacht Eight Persons Rescued Brisbane
Becoming jammed under the forward decking of the yacht Astra, which capsized at Moreton Bay during a storm this afternoon. Shirley Margaret Andrews, 13,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Almost Drowned Boy Found in Baths at Merewether Responded to Treatment
Barry Shankley, 9, of Braye-street, Mayfield, was dragged unconscious from the water at the new Merewether Ocean Baths on Saturday. He responded to artificial…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pitt-street Blaze Big Building Damaged Fireman Injured Buried by Fallen Wall SYDNEY
District-officer Parks, of George Street West Brigade, narrowly escaped death when a partition wall on the top floor of Robson…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Temporarily Blind Strange Soccer Accident Player Heads Ball London, January 2
Alex. Finney, Bolton Wanderers' left back, has been the victim of one of the strangest accidents that ever occurred on a occurred field…
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When she fell from her bicycle in Hannah-street, Wallsend, on Saturday afternoon, Norah Dawson, 15, of Hill-street, Wallsend, sustained an internal injury, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cycle Accident Victim
The victim of a motor cycle accident on the Allandale-road near Cessnock last night. Barney Nuddle. 23, of Lower Belford, lies in Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day's Accidents Thigh Fractured
Louis Peterson (2), of Swan-street, Hamilton, was playing in the backyard of his home this morning when a bed-frame fell on his right thigh and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tinonee Drowning Taree
Norman Smith, 16, of Tinonee, was drowned in the Manning River, near the Tinonee ferry approach, last evening. Smith, who was swimming, got out of his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tamworth Fatality Tamworth
Edwin Hugo Max Halliger, 34, labourer, of Tamworth, was killed instantly this evening in a collision between his motor-cycle and a motor-car at the intersection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Injured at Maitland
Percy Rutter. 29. of George-street. Horseshoe Bend. West Maitland. had his right foot severely injured today when the flywheel of a concrets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Injured Again Birthday in Hospital
Thomas Ingersoll, of Wilson-street, Carrington, will spend his 56th birthday today in the General Hospital. About six months ago he fell and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell Four Floors to Death Fatality at Flour Mills Melbourne
George Herbert Dickie, 22 of Bray-brook, was killed instantly early today when he fell 64 feet to the ground from a fourth floor window at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In Other Spheres Toll of Accidents
It is a poor spirited motorist who would attempt to minimise the seriousness of the toll of the road, and who would not do all that he could to make the highways…
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