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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Fatalities and Accidents Dropped Dead. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

A man whose name it is thought to have been P. Furnish, dropped dead on the flat at Epping trots to-day…

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Found Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon at the Junee Courthouse an inquest was held on the body of Victor Whitney, aged 27, whose body was found in a dam at Old Junee…

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Fatalities and Accidents Terrible Injuries. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 2

William Griffin was picked up near the Erskineville railway station early this morning and conveyed to the hospital suffering from concussion, fractured…

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COLLISION Post v. MotorBike and Side Car Six Injured SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 April 1921 · page 1

A motor cycle, with side car attached, collided with a telegraph pout at Auburn. Six persons were injured, but only one seriously…

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Railway Cutting Subsides Two Men Injured Partly Buried SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 April 1921 · page 1

While a number of men were working in a putting at the Central Railway Station shortly after midnight, one of the sides of the trench fell away, and…

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Butcmen Drowned. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

Charles Moore, 23, a butcher, was drowned in the surf at Maroubra yesterday. His friends when they observed him in difficulties tried to effect…

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Motor Cycle Accident. Six Persons Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

A motor cycle with a side car attached collided with a telegraph post at Auburn to-day and six persons were injured, but only one seriously…

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Fatalities and Accidents Railwaymen Injured. Accident at Central Station. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

While a number of railwaymen were working in a cutting at the Central Railway Station shortly after midnight one of the sides of the trench fell in…

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Hotel Bombed Soldier kilted Women Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 4

At Bally Macelligott as the result of an explosion of a bomb thrown in the hotel Ennis, a soldier wu killed and a policeman and two women…

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Football. Rugby League. Matches at Junee. Two Players Injured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 4

Fourteen hundred people witnessed the football matches on the Junee Park on Sunday, which were played for the Junee Hospital, as well as to try out…

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Sulky Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

At about 9.30 p.m. on Saturday, a sulky accident occurred in Leeton, as a result of which Miss Jessie Richards is now in the Leeton Public Hospital…

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Hotel Bombed Soldier Killed Women Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1921 · page 4

At Bally Macelligott as the remit of an explosion of a bomb thrown in the hotel. Ennis a soldier was Stilled and a policeman and two women…

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Fatalities and Accidents Bitten by Snake. Condobolin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 April 1921 · page 3

A lad named Heater Osborne was bitten by a snake. He walked three miles to his uncle's home, where first aid was administered. Then he was…

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Old Man Injured

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 2

Whilst driving along the road towards Little Springs yesterday between 6 and 7 p.m. Edward Finn aged 60, by some means fell out of his sulky and was…

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Hotel Bombed Soldier Killed Women Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 4

At Bally Macelligott as the result of as explosion of a bomb thrown in the hotel Ennis, a soldier was killed and a policeman and two women…

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Tram Collision Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 1

Three persons were injuired in a tram collision at Bondi last night…

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Tram Collision. Three Persons Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

Three persons were injured in a train collision at Bond[?] late last night. Residents who lived 500 yards away hearn the crash…

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Man Drowned. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 April 1921 · page 2

The body of Robert Stewart was washed up by the sea at St. Kilda, Melbourne, last night. The deceased had been missing from his home for about…

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Fatalities and Accidents Woman Poisons Herself. Perth

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 April 1921 · page 2

Gwendoline De Leon, 30, came from Melbourne recently with Florence Miles, and started a toilet specialist business in Perth. The two had some…

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Lieutenant M'intosh's Death. Verdict of Accidental Death. Perth

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 April 1921 · page 3

The inquest concerning [?] the aviator Lieut. M'Inotsh and a man named Joy was resumed at Pithra, West Australia…

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