Smoke Helped Injured Holidaymaker
Although a non-smoker. Miss Kathleen O'Keefe, 23. a tailoress from cessnock. found a cigarette helped to allay the pain…
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Accidents, 1944
572 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 29
Two Die in Car-tram Collision
BRISBANE.—A woman was killed instantly and a man died later in hospital following a head-on collision between a motor car…
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Caught in a crane at the B.H.P. Co. Ltd. Steel Works last night, a 23-year-old electrician, Thomas C. Smith, of Albert-street, Speers Point,…
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ATE RAT POISON.—A three-year-old child are a piece of a scone that he found in a shed. The scone had been set as a rat…
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Harry Field, 60, of Awaba, had his left foot probably fractured when a tree fell on it while he was cutting timber. Lake Macquarie…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—In a head on collision by a motor-car and a tram on Bowen Bridge at Lutwvche. Mrs. Marion Joyce O'Connor, 25, of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—An American soldier, who was dragged unconscious from Bondi surf, died a few hours later in an iron lung…
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GOSFORD.âAlfred Strachan, 59, of Houston Street, Westmead, was drowned last night at The Entrance…
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An 19 years-old member of the RAAF. Charles Dalton, was found badly injured in the hold of a ship in the harbor this morning…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Kuaka, five-year-old gelding trained by V. Ryan, Was killed in a road accident…
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WASHINGTON, Friday.—The Navy announces that the 1300 ton patrol ship, St. Augustine, was sunk in collision with a…
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One of the best known members of the Miners' Federation, Mr. L. ("Nugget") Tyrrell, of New Lambton, was severely injured yesterday…
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Roy Blades, 12, of Bent-street, North Sydney, ran into a fence while playing with other school children and received abrasions and contusions…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—When she jumped from a car in fright when a tyre blew out while travelling along the Geelong road, near Werribee, on…
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GOSFORD, Monday.—Lionel Smith. 9. of West-street, Crow's Nest, was drowned in Davistown Baths this morning. The body was recovered…
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Desmond Williams, 6, of Lewis-street, Wallsend, escaped with minor injuries when horse attacked him in the Federal Park, Wallsend,…
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In a fall at the Dyke End, William Donnelly, 62, Moate-street, Georgetown, suffered concussion, lacerations to the scalp and abrasions to the arms…
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ALBURY.—Two sisters, Olive Isabella Bohun (7) and Constance Eileen Bohun (6) were drowned yesterday afternoon in a disused…
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Robert Campbell, a dairy farmer, of Ash Island, took his live children for a swim in Pebble Creek about 150 yards from his…
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John Preston 34, Railway-street, Merewether, had his left foot probably fractured sobers a sliding door at John's Silk Store crashed on it. Preston was…
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