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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

61 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4

Queanbeyan Age Tuesday, January 6, 1925 Fatal Motoring Accident Driver Drowned Under Car

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

Deep regret was expressed everywhere when news reached town early yesterday morning that Mr. Barney Thomas, a popular motor driver in…

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Fatal Motoring Accident. Driver Drowned Under Car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6

Deep regret was expressed everywhere when news reached Queanbeyan early on Monday morning that Mr. Barney Thomas, a popular motor…

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A Serious Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon last "Billie," the six-year-old son of Mr. J. H. Fowlie, of this town, met with a very painful accident. He, in company…

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Telegraphic News Motorists Injured. Dubbo

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

Another serious motor accident occurred last night when two cars collided on the Wellington Road near Maryville. Three occupants of…

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Frightful Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 5

Two aboriginal children received frightful injuries at Fairfield Station, near Duaringa, when a detonator exploded…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 3

Early on Thursday morning a motor car and sulky collided at Newtown, Bega. The car was returning from a dance at Wolumla with eight…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

Mr. J. W. H. T. Douglas, vice-captain of the English Eleven, was hurt in a motor smash at Garden Vale, Victoria, yesterday. One of his…

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Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 2

On Saturday morning last Mr. Robert Bowman, of Bombay, who was accompanied by his wife and a little boy, had a narrow escape from a…

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Father and Son Drowned While Fishing. Wellington, N.z

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 2

Clarence Hubert and his son were drowned when a dingy, from which they were fishing, capsized at Sumner Estuary…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Adelaide

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 2

At Auburn yesterday two boys named Arthur Hean and Jack Willis, both under 15 years of age, were playing with a rifle which was…

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Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 2

On Sunday morning last Mr. J. Grant, of Clyde road, met with a serious accident. It appears that he went out into a small paddock…

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Peculiar Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 6

A boy named Fitzgerald was riding a push-bike near Orange, when a motor cyclist coming behind crashed into him. Instead of the boy being…

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When Accidents Happen: You Must Have ZAM-BUK for Quick, Clean Healing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 4

In time of accident you need help quickly, and Zam-Buk is always the best and most reliable antiseptic first-aid to have handy. Whether it be a…

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Car Fatality. Riverina Grazier Killed. Melbourne

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 March 1925 · page 2

While motoring to Melbourne, Mr. W. F. A. Edwick, one of the wealthiest and best known graziers in the Riverina, was killed at 3 a.m…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 2

On Monday morning last Mr. James Rex, of Brushy Hill, met with a serious accident. It appears he had put his horse in a dray for the purpose…

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The Motor Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 8

Sensational developments have occurred in connection with the tragic accident on Parramatta-road on Friday night, when an aged couple, Mr…

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Local and General News Serious Burning Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 2

On Tuesday last Mrs. Currie, wife of Mr. M. Currie, of Araluen, met with a serious accident. She was engaged washing in the wash-house of…

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Terrible Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 2

George Coker, a middle-aged mail, residing at Merrylands, fell into a vat of boiling fat at Whitehall & Holmes' boiling-down works near Smithfield…

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Fisherman Drowned. Newcastle

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 3

A young man named Alfred Arnold hired a boat to go fishing at noon yesterday. An hour later the boat was seen with no one in and…

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Another Motor Fatality. Auckland, N.Z.

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 3

As a result of a motor fatality at Horotiu, Bruce Graham, aged 42, and his wife are dead, and their young daughter, who was…

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