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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Suspected Drowning Forbes

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 4

The Forbes police arc searching for Henry Lewis Luscombe, of Croydon, who, it is feared, has been drowned in the river. A motor car containing Luscombe's driver's…

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Week-end Accidents Several Seriously Injured Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 5

Lady Carrington Drive, a popular tourist route, was the scene of a serious accident this afternoon when a motor car containing five persons struck a large boulder on the side of…

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Aviation Pilot Killed Several Persons Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 3

COLOGNE, Saturday, -- Two serious French passenger aeroplane crashes occurred to-day. In the first a Paris Berlin Plane was befogged, and…

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Hunting Accident Mahranee of Coochbehar London

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 4

The Mahranee of Coochbehar met with a serious accident while hunting with the Prince of Wales, the Dulce of York and Prince Henry at Melton Mowbray, where she was…

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Accidents

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 2

Betty West, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. West, fell from a pony yesterday morning and broke her right forearm. She was brought to…

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Inquiry Into Collision Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 10

An inquiry was opened yesterday in the collision betreen the steamers Yarra and bady Isobel in Newcastle Harbour on October 17 last. The Lady Isobel sustained…

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Boxing Billy Grime Injured New York

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 5

Billy Grime, the Australian boxer, has been compelled to postpone all fights for at least fortnight, flue to a minor injury to the eye…

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Collision with Cart Accident to Mr. W. Connolly

Tweed Daily · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 6

Later details of the accident to Mr. W. Connolly, near Uki on Tuesday, show that the storm was the indirect cause of…

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Electrical Mechanic Injured Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 10

Colin Arthur, an electrical, mechanic, was effecting repairs to a railway carriage at Punchbowl when the carriage commenced to move. He tried to get out of the way of the…

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Motor Collision At South Murwillumbah Car Versus Lorry

Tweed Daily · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 2

Splintered glass, crumpled mudguards, twisted steel bars but a total absence of personal injury, were the outstanding features of a motor…

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Molten Lead Youth's Painful Accident

Tweed Daily · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 3

TOOWOOMBA, Wednesday.-- William Johnson (16), an apprentice plumber employed on a sewerage connection job, met with a painful accident. He was…

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Motoring Accident Follows Wedding

Northern Star · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 4

A motoring accident in which a wedding party, including the bridal couple, were concerned occurred on the Armidale-Uralla road late on Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs…

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Head-on Collision

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday. --Two motor cars met in a terrific head-on collision at Traralgon late last night, and three persons were injured. So tightly…

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Five Injured Accident Near Sydney

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. --Five persons were injured, two critically, when a motor car overturned at Caringbah, near Sutherland, to- night. The accident…

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Six Persons Injured

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.--When a car capsized at Cronulla last night after colliding with a telegraph post, six persons were more or less seriously…

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Nearly Drowned by a Fish

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 6

A drowning fatality was narrowly averted on Wednesday at Iluka by the presence of mind and plucky action of a lad, Clive McLeay 11 son of Police…

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Premature Explosion. Man Badly Injured

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.--Cecil Pickans was frightfully injured at the 925 feet level of North Lyall mine, Tasmania, as a result of an explosion. There are…

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Boy Drowned Dum Dum Tragedy Salvation Army Picnic Visitor From Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

A tragic drowning accident occurred at Dum Dum, some miles from Murwillumbah, yesterday afternoon, when William Lewis,…

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Train Smash South African Accident Natives' Fortitude

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 3

CAPE TOWN, Wednesday: --While railway officials declare' there was no apparent cause for last night's railway accident, in which five natives and…

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Fortitude of Natives Capetown Railway Accident Capetown

Northern Star · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

While the railway officials declare that there is no apparent cause for last night's railway Accident in which five natives and one European were killed and 25 natives…

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