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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Accident on Easter Monday Man Injured at Manus

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 1

The residents of Tumbarumba were rather alarmed at dinner hour on Easter Monday. A horseman was…

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Drowned in Harbor. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 1

The bodies of two men were taken from the harbor this morning. A pocket of one man contained a discharge bearing the name, "C. Preadergast," while…

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Lambert Leads Labor A.lp. Re-elects Its President by Good Majority Shooting Fatality in 1917 Revived Conference Discusses Housing Problems

The Daily Express · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 1

Mr. W. H. Lambert has been reflected President of .the A.L.P. Executive after [?] fight. His main opponent was Mr. Mitcholl, who…

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Fatalities and Accidents Fell Overboard. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 2

George Clark fell overboard from a ferry steamer in the harbor last night, and some time later he was seen by a deck hand on the same…

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Electrocuted an Easter Accident Cootamundra Man Killed. Cootamundra

The Daily Express · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 2

An accident occurred at the Bottany paper mills on Easter Sunday morning which resulted in the death of an ex-Cootamundra man Jim…

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Motor Cycle Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 2

Miss Edna Gregory, who is on a visit to Junee, was knocked down by a motor cyclist in Main-street, Junee, on Friday. The rider of the cycle, offered to take…

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Fatalities and Accidents Child Trodden On. Blayney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 April 1921 · page 1

Whilst driving from Tallwood to Blayney and when crossing over a bridge near Millthorpe Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Webster and child were thrown…

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Accident at Culcairn Youth Badly Injured

The Daily Express · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 2

A youth named Herbert Sturt, 13 years of age, son of a farmer at Culcairn, was admitted to the Albury District Hospital on Tuesday…

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Fatalities and Accidents Little Girl Drowned. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 4

Lynette Wippell, aged three was drowned in a water hole near her parents' residence at Mosman She is believed to have fallen from a heap…

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Produce Merchant Injured. by Bolting Horses. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 4

At Alexandria goods yards this morning a pair of horses attached to a waggon bolted. Neinhold Smith (48), a produce merchant, tried to stop them…

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Two Huntsmen Injured. in Rebel Attack. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 2

The military held up and searched members of the West Waterford hunt at Kinsalebeg, when the rebels suddenly opened fire upon them. Though they…

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Flying Smash. Pilot Injured Mechanic Killed Unexplained Breakdown Melbourne

The Daily Express · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 3

Mystery surrounds an accident at the Central Flying School, Lavorton, yesterday when an Avro machine crashed and Captain Fryer Smith,…

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Valuable Accident

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 4

When that very clangorous explosive, nitro-glycerine, was first invented extraordinary precautions had to be taken to prevent accidents while the…

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Fatalities and Accidents at Watson's Bay. Coat on the Cliffs. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 3

A coat which was found on top of the cliffs at Watsons Bay contained the following letter in one of the pockets:— "My dear old dad the woman I married…

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Local and General Junee Drowning Fatality

The Daily Express · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 2

A man named C. Whitfiled was found drowned in the dam at Old Jainee on Saturday afternoon. The discovery was made by a corn hand…

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Fatality at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon the Junee police received word that the body of a man had been seen floating in a dam on the property of Mr. Joseph Hardy a…

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Drowned Tragedy at Wagga Body Found in the River

The Daily Express · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 2

Shortly after 6 o'clock last evening the Waggs police received a report that the body of an elderly man had been found, in the [?]urrmbidge…

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Man Found Drowned Near Hampden Bridge. Body Not Yet Identified. Cries for Help

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 2

Whilst rowing up the river at about 6 p.m. yesterday. Messrs. Le Gallant and Patterson noticed the body of a man floating against a snag on the…

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Fatalities and Accidents a Determined Suicide. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 2

The body of Christie Johnson, an orchardist was found hanging to a tree at Warwick, Queensland. Deceased had apparently c[?]med a tree,…

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Unknown Man's Death. Drowned in Murrumbidgee River. Verdict of Accidental Death. at Coroner's Inquest

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

The inquest was opened yesterday morning concerning the death of an unknown man whose body was found floating in the river, about 300 yards north…

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