Canadian Scholar Fatally Injured in Brawl
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Professor James Carson Taylor, 31, a distinguished Canadian scholar, who was en route to take up a post as…
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Accidents, 1946
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U.s. Admiral Dead in Car Accident
NORFOLK (Virginia), Thursday. — Vice-Admiral Theodore Wilkinson was drowned when his car overran the end of the Elizabeth River ferry…
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While using a spawling hammer at Martin's Creek quarry yesterday. Solomon Lawrence, 52. of Martin's Creek, was struck by flying…
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NORFOLK (Virginia), Feb. 22. A.A.P.—Vice-Admiral Theodore Wilkinson was drowned when his car overran the end of the Elizabeth…
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SYDNEY. — A nursing sister was seriously injured as a result of a practical joke at Annandale last night. The woman, Sister Duncan of the…
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SYDNEY. — Thrown from his horsedrawn cart as he was turning a corner at North Strathfield last night, Keith Henshaw. 26, Stubbs Street,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—James Alfred Walker, a rating on H.M.S. Uraria, was swept out by the undertow and drowned at Bondi…
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PERTH, Sunday.—Struck behind the ear by a fast ball in a cricket match at the University of Western Australia, Jeffrey Scott Gibbings, 21,…
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LONDON. Sunday. — Ninety-five passengers were drowned today when a river steamer sank near Brunsbattel at the Elbe estuary…
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Women volunteers attending some of the injured following disturbances in Bombay…
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Knocked out by Tommy Smith in the third round at Newcastle Stadium on Saturday night, Ernie Juno is still in Newcastle…
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Jack Shenball, 35, of Neath-street, Pelaw Main, suffered cuts to the head and bruises to the back and chest when two ears collided in…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—A 13-year-old boy admitted to the police last night that he had gagged and then drowned a neighbour's three-year-old…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The fully-clothed body of Douglas Loudin Smith, 19, railway employee, of Arncliffe, Sydney, was recovered by…
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Cabinet, ridden by apprentice J. Marsh, cannoned into Gay Fresco (N. Roberts) while galloping at Broadmeadow this morning…
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Two people were injured when a car and lorry collided at the corner of Margaret and George Streets, Mayfield, yesterday afternoon. They were:…
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Riding in the judging ring, Cyril Owens, 13, of Hunter-street, Newcastle, was kicked by another horse. The shinbone of his left leg was…
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GIBRALTAR, March 1. A.A.P.—Five members of the crew of 34 of the London steamer Herisle went down with the ship and were…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Seven people were injured when a taxi ran on to a footpath in Newtown to-day. The injured included a two-year-old…
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Holidaying at Fishing Point. Lake Macquarie with his wife and father-in-law, Alwyn Leslie Graham, 23, of Bridge-street Glebe Point, an electrical…
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