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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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Terrible Accident in Goulburn

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 2

On Saturday night last an lawful calamity occurred in Goulburn as a result of the phenomenally heavy rain there. The victim was…

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Latest Cable News. Aeroplane Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 7

Phillip Nunn, one of the two victims of the aeroplane disaster at Mornington on Friday, died from his injuries. Nunn was only 19…

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Machinery Accident. Injured Poisoned Finger Saved by Zam-buk

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 4

"My husband, who was away at the war for three years with the A.I.F., when working at Hoskins' foundry in Sydney got one of his fingers in the machinery,…

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Injured Man Crawls Two Miles

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

A distressing case is reported from Dubbo. A man named Murray was knocked insensible by the limb of a tree. When he came to his senses he found…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 4

Mr. Joseph Winter was killed as a result of a motor accident on the Good Hope Road, about five miles from Yass, between 5 p.m…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 2

Whilst driving home from Cuppacumbalong on Monday, Mrs. Chas. Edlington of Duntroon, had rather an unfortunate experience. The pair of horses attached…

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Motor Car Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 2

Messrs. Weir and Donnelly, commercial travellers ,left Goulburn on Monday evening in a motor car for Braidwood. When about 11…

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Saved from Drowning

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

A brave rescue from drowning was made in the Yass River, just below the police paddock, on Sunday last. Some small boys were crayfishing, and one of…

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Drowning at Corowa. Body Found After Three Years

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

The body of Francis Collier was found on Tuesday in Lake Moodemere, about four miles from Corowa on the Victorian side of the river. Collier disappeared…

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Killed By Express. Driver Run Down. Fatality at Culcairn

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 2

Stepping back from a locomotive, in the not of bidding -a companion driver good-bye, Locomotive Driver Tom Heath. wood, of Culcairn, was run down by the…

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Workers' Accidents. Zam-buk Is Needed to Prevent Blood Poison and Disease

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 4

Every worker should always keep a pot of Zam-Buk within easy reach. Cuts and bruises are a daily occurrence, and unless they are dressed with Zam-Buk there is…

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Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1920 · page 2

While driving along the Bombay road in a rabbit cart last week Mr. W. Hurley met with an accident which might easily have been…

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Local and General News ACCIDENT

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

The other day Mr. Jas. Morgan, of Jembaicumbene ,fractured one off his arms in a rather peculiar manner. He was engaged…

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Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

A motor accident occurred last last week, when Mr. John Chinnery, with a party, was returning to Bungendore from Braidwood. It…

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Local and General News ACCIDENT

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 7

Master Jack Hart, aged seven years, son of Mr. T. P. Hart, of Krawarree, met with an accident on Friday afternoon last. It…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 2

A man residing at Armadale, near Perth, was shooting a fowl in his back yard with a small rifle when his daughter, aged 2½ years,…

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Fatal Motor Lorry Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

A motor lorry carrying 27 passengers returning from a cricket match on the Darling Range, near Fremantle, got…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at Araluen on Wednesday afternoon. William Strudwick, employed on the steel dredge, which is being…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 2

Mr. D. McRae, who had been spending a holiday with his uncle, Mr. Jas. Burke, had a rough trip on his motor cycle home to…

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Motor Car Collision

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 2

Cars owned by Mr. C. Grigg, Braidwood, and Mr. A. Bopping, of Ballalaba, collided on the road at a spot a few miles from Braidwood…

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