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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Prime Minister's Accident. Slow Recovery. MELBOURNE

The Northern Daily Leader · Wednesday 2 March 1921 · page 2

The Prime Minister is not making such satisfactory recovery from the indisposition following his recent fall as his friends would like…

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Fatal Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 3

Arthur Valentino Seymour, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Seymour, of David Street Moree, met with an accident on Monday afternoon, receiving injuries to…

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Accident to Train

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 7 March 1921 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon an accident occurred on the Moree-Inverell railway line, when 18 trucks, loaded with wheat, left the rails et Bowyang,…

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Motor Bus Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1921 · page 4

A sensational motor bus accident occurred near Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday. A bus containing 21 passengers crashed through a bridge…

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Accident to Walgett Mailman

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 March 1921 · page 2

Recently Mr. Jim Christoff driving the Collar[?]bri to Walgett mail was driving a pair of restive horses and when he got some little distance past…

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Death From Injured Leg. Coroner's Inquiry. SYDNEY

The Northern Daily Leader · Friday 11 March 1921 · page 2

An inquest was opened into the death of Ben Freidman, 15 1/2 years of ago. who injured his leg by falling from a balcony on January 11, and died in sydney…

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Sad Family Fatality. Inverell Soldier's Unlucky Run. INVERELL

The Northern Daily Leader · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 5

The sad news was received in Inverell that Mr. George Hogbin, who had only recently left Inverell, had been accidentally killed last Friday night…

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Tram Smash in Melbourne. Head-on Collision. MELBOURNE

The Northern Daily Leader · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 3

A Prahran bound cable, tram jumped the rails to-day, and crashed head-on into the dummy of another tram coming in the opposite direction…

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Walcha Fatality

The Northern Daily Leader · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 2

A litle boy named Bourke, following his mother to a neighbour's at Eulo, near Niangala, fell into the Macdonald River and was drowned…

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Drowned While Fishing. Sydney

The Northern Daily Leader · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 2

Alfred Lawson was washed off the rocks at Terrigal when fishing. The body disappeared, and lias not yet been recovered…

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Fatal Collision. Verdict of Accidental Death. SYDNEY

The Northern Daily Leader · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

The inquest concerning the [?] of Ambrose Whiting, William Whiting, and Charlie Gow, who were killed in a colliskon between a motor car and steam tram…

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Fairfield Drowning. Stalling Evidence at Inquest. SYDNEY

The Northern Daily Leader · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

At the inquest concerning the death of Charlie, George at Fairfield, the evidence showed that five boys went to a waterhole to swim. George got out of his…

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Fatal Picnic. Girl Drowned in Harbor. Sydney

The Northern Daily Leader · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 5

During a launch picnic, comprising a party of about 80, made up of members of the Croydon Presbyterian Boys' Club and friends Miss M. C. Candless, 20…

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Injured Civilians. Suggestions from Dublin Castle. LONDON

The Northern Daily Leader · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 1

A Dublin Castle statement suggests that Dublinites influence their elected representatives to bring pressure on Charles Burgess, Richard Mulcahy, and…

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Chaffcutter Accident at Attunga

The Northern Daily Leader · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 5

Mr. Alf. Wilson met with an unfortunate accident on Saturday morning. He was working at a chaffcutter at his own place The machine was thrown out of…

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Accident at Show. SYDNEY

The Northern Daily Leader · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 1

A young hefter became restive at the Show Ground to-day,a nd reared and struck its attendant, archibald King,a farmer of Dapto, on the forehead…

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Train Runs Down Motor. Doctor Seriously Injured. Melbourne

The Northern Daily Leader · Thursday 24 March 1921 · page 2

Dr. J. H. Johnson of Cheltenham, was driving a motor along the Moornbln Road. In attempting to drive ever a level crossing on the Mordialloc, line he…

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Motor Fatality. Car Topples Over an Embankment

The Northern Daily Leader · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 2

A motor accident realting in the death of one of a touring party and is juries to four of the remaining six occurred early on Friday night on a…

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Racing Smash at Randwick. Jockeys Severely Injured. Steeplechaser Killed. SYDNEY

The Northern Daily Leader · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 1

The surgeon reported that in the steeple Mooney, riding Jack Friar, received concussion and a contused wound to the mouth and abrasions to the face…

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Motor Fatality. Two People Killed. Sydney

The Northern Daily Leader · Wednesday 30 March 1921 · page 2

By the overturning of a motor car Messrs Petrass and Darlington, two well-known residents of Warracknaball Victoria, were killed yesterday…

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