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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1920

5 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

INTERNATIONAL. Matthews Machine Wrecked Aviator Wounded London, April 19

The Western Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1920 · page 2

A Reuter message states [?] crashed while landing on the Island of Bali and was wounded. The machine was wrecked…

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MULLUMBIMBY, N.S.W. Perfect Wreck Through Kidney Disease

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 4

I was brought down by Kidney Disease so that I could not raise myself from my bed being as weak as a Betty. The pain in my back was positively…

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Mullumbimby (N.s.w.) a Perfect Wreck Through Kidney Disease

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 3

I was brought down by Kidney Disease so that I could not raise myself from my bed, being weak as a baby. The pain in the back was positively…

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Ketch Wrecked

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 2

News has been received in Sydney of the wreck of the ketch Violet in the Tongan Group. All hands were saved…

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Wreckage Sighted

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1920 · page 2

A quantity of wreekage, bebeved [?] belong to a small ketch, was passed by the steamer Kyber off Albany, but there was no sign of life…

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