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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Queanbeyan Age Tuesday, April 7, 1925. Level Crossing Accident Three Persons Killed. Sydney

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 2

Another level crossing accident, costing, three lives, occurred at Bays-water Suburb, Melbourne, last night. A passenger, train from Fern Tree…

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The Late Burning Accident at Araluen

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 2

Mrs. Currie, wife of Mr. M. Currie, shire maintenance man, died in the Braidwood Hospital on Tuesday night as the result of the burning accident…

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Drowned in Queanbeyan Weir Coroner's Inquest

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1925 · page 2

At about 8.30 o'clock on last Sunday morning as Mr. W. H. Barber, painter, of Queanbeyan, was walking in the vicinity of the weir wall he…

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In Case of Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1925 · page 8

The landlady was showing the prospective lodger over the house. "I think you'd find everything comferable," she assured him. "This'd…

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Accident

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1925 · page 3

While engaged in wood cutting on his property, Stringy Bark, Cooma Road, yesterday morning, Mr. Robert Thomson was making a stroke, when…

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Queanbeyan - Canberra Advocate. Incorporating the "Queanbeyan Leader." Thursday, April 23, 1925. Telegraphic News Accident to Mr. Considine Rockhampton

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1925 · page 3

Mr. Frank Considine is in hospital in a critical condition as the result of being crushed when he fell between the wharf and a ship to-day…

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Another Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2

Mr. Leo Gavan Duffy, solicitor, son of the late Mr. John Gavan Duffy, solicitor, was killed instantly in a motor accident on Saturday after…

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Drowning Tragedy

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 7 May 1925 · page 2

A shocking tragedy has occurred at Beckom, near Temora on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs. Robert Parker and their two children, a boy and a girl, aged…

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Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 2

While attempting to repair a leak in a skylight at his residence at Albion-street, Surry Hills, on Monday, Albert Greenwood fell 12ft. though…

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A Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 4

The lady school teacher was instructing her class of boys as to the meaning of the word "collision." She explained to them that a collision was…

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Sulky Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1925 · page 4

The overturning of a sulky on the Bungendore road on May 9 had a sequel at the Goulburn Police Court last week, when two Tarago residents…

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Floods at Canberra. Man Drowned

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 3

Our correspondent at Molonglo Settlement writes:— Mr. C. Byrnes, while returning from Queanbeyan, via Acton, on…

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Floods at Canberra. Man Drowned

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

Our correspondent at Molonglo Settlement writes:— Mr. C. Byrnes, while returning from Queanbeyan, via Acton, on…

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Terrible Railway Disaster. Nine Persons Killed and Many Injured

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 9 June 1925 · page 2

A Brisbane telegram states that a shocking train disaster occurred at two o'clock this morning when the Rockhampton mail train was…

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Big Railway Accident in Queensland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 June 1925 · page 3

A disastrous railway smash occurred early on Tuesday morning, when the Rockhampton mall train Jumped the rails while crossing the…

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Car Goes Over Bridge. Man Drowned

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 June 1925 · page 4

As two Melbourne residents (E. Devine and Hilton Cerise) were driving a single-seated car from Wodonga to Albury, they were the…

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More Home Accidents. Sudden Cuts, Burns and Scalds Emphasise Daily Need for Zam-Buk

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 June 1925 · page 4

More accidents occur in the home than anywhere else. This fact emphasises very forcibly the necessity of having the handy box of Zam-Buk…

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Fatal Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1925 · page 2

A motor cyclist collided at Danger Point with a motor car in which Dame Clara Butt was returning home from Bristol, where she had given a…

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Frightful Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1925 · page 3

A serious accident befell Edward Ashburn, a carter, in Wentworth-street, Glen Innes, resulting in his removal to the hospital in a critical…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 July 1925 · page 3

When Alfred A. Bain (22) failed to start its motor car in its garage at Wollongong on Monday lie thought the battery was at fault…

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