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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Tennis Players Injured

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 5

A car containing tennis players, returning to Sydney from the Championship meeting at Dubbo, capsized at Mt. Lambie, near Lithgow, at 6…

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Ten Hurt in Road Collision Cars Meet Head-on Amazing Escapes Gilgandra Party's Ordeal Near Batliurst

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 5

Ten people were injured in a sensational head-on collision between two cars on the Orange-Bathurst road on Sunday…

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Painful Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 5

While sinking post holes on Mr. Vincent's property a man named. King sustained a painful accident. It appears that he was ramming the…

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Accident Victims Recover

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 4

All the victims of the moto[?] [?]ci dent at Bathurst on Sunday are making a good recovery. Miss E. Ferry, schoolteacher, of Narromine,…

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Painful Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 4

Ray, young son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Habgood was the victim of a most painful accident on Saturday afternoon last. It appears that he…

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Ten Injured When Cars Meet in Head. on Collision Amazing Escapes

Western Age · Friday 13 September 1935 · page 3

Then people were injured in a sensational head-on collision between two cars on the Orange-Bathurst road on Monday morning…

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Britain's Road Accidents

The Western Herald · Friday 13 September 1935 · page 2

The numbers of persons killed or injured during 1934 in road accidents in Great Britain attributed to private cars and to public…

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Boxer Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 2

On Saturday night, a man named H. F. Fardell, well known in Dubbo boxing circles, suffered a scalp wound which necessitated eight stitches. The…

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Motor Fatality Two Lives Lost in Joy Party Adelaide

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 1

Sylvia Midred Hoffrichter (19) and Archibald Ernest Trimmong (35) were killed and six others injured, when a motor lorry containing 20 people…

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Alleged Shooting Injured Man Chased Investigation by the Police

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 1

An urgent message to the police on Saturday night, to the effect that a man had been shot, brought Det.-const. G. Frankish and…

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Drivers Unhurt In Spectacular Collision Parramatta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 1

After a collision between a motor car and a large motor van, at Parramatta last night, the van hit a telegraph pole and the car mounted the…

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For Injured Footballers Successful Ball

Western Age · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 2

In the Masonic Hall, Cobar, on Thursday last, a ball was held in aid of footballers injured in the recent accident…

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Yorkshire Pit Explosion 15 KILLED; 51 INJURED

Western Age · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 3

At least 13 were killed and 51 are still entombed in a pit explosion at Wapplewell, Yorkshire. Sheets of flame swept the galleries. Nine…

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Shooting Fatality at Byrock. Girl Bleeds to Death From Bullet Wound

The Western Herald · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 5

On Monday last, a girl named Elizabeth Williams, aged 16 years, daughter of the Police Tracker at Byrock, died as the result of being…

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Painful Accident

The Western Herald · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 4

On Monday afternoon last Mrs. C. Bye in stepping off her verandah at the back of the house, came in contact with a bucket and had…

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DROWNED Trying to Save Dog Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 September 1935 · page 1

Robert Capran, the American comedian, was drowned in his efforts to save the life of a dog which had fallen into the Yarra River…

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Badly Injured Hod-carrier's Fall. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 September 1935 · page 1

While working on a new block of flats at Manly this morning, John Mulhearn, aged 42 years, a hod-carrier, lost his balance on the second…

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Youths Injured By Hit-run Motorist Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 September 1935 · page 1

While three youths and a girl were walking along the Princes Highway, Corrimal, last night, they were knocked down by a sedan car…

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Sudden Death Young Workman in Collision Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 3

Less than two minutes after leaving work in Upper Hawthorne, last night, George Edwards (21) was seriously injured when his motor-cycle outfit was…

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Painful Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 2

Mr. W. J. Mitchell, a carpenter, wild is employed at Mr. Thompson's at Macquarie Park, met with a serion, and painful wound yesterday…

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