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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Drowned in Bathtub. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1924 · page 1

Ernest Taylor, 58, a brick carter of Camperdown, was found dead in a bath full of water at his home this morning with a seven pounds weight…

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A Railway Accident

The Daily Express · Wednesday 16 January 1924 · page 2

The checking clerk at the Albury railway station, Mr. R. Gibson, meu with a hasty accident while supervising the [?]ading of a truck of Truit…

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Injured Man Improving

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1924 · page 2

Thomas Heslop, whose skull was fractured in a brawl in Wagga on Monday night, is still in a serious condition. On inquiry at the Wagga…

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Drowned in a Bath. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1924 · page 1

Ernest Taylor (58), a brick carter, of Camperdown, was found dead in a bath full of water at his home this morning with a seven pounds weight…

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Fatality Whilst After Kangaroos. Toowoomba

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 1

James McBride, a fencing contractor, was working with his two sons, who went out kangaroo shooting on horseback…

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Wife Seriously Injured. Struck with a Lighted Lamp. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 2

Early this morning a man rushed up to Constable Edwards and told him that his wife had met with severe injuries. Annie Buckley was[?]…

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River Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 2

Yesterday morning at about 11 o'clock Mavis Hut[?] (14) was swimming off the Wagga bathing beach when she ventured into too swift a…

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Drowning Fatuity Non-swimmer Falls in River Narrandera

The Daily Express · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 2

A young man named George North, a visitor at Mr. W. Noble’s, want down to tho river with Mr. ‘George. Noble, who swam across the river…

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Hunting Fatality Boy Shoots His Srother Toowoomba

The Daily Express · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 1

Two sons of Mr. James McBride, a fencing contractor, at Tallness station, in the Augathella District of the Far West Went kanragoo…

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Accident at the Beach

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 4

During a sharp fall of rain at the beach at about half past eight o'clock last night, and while a number of people were taking advantage of the…

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Boat Overturns. Drowning Fatality in Hawkesbury. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 1

After the boat bad been swamped and overturned in the HawKesbury River yesterday, one of the occupants, Roy Donnelly, aged 38, endeavoured…

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Fall Down Shaft Miner Injured. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 1

William Dorrington, 21, a miner, fell down a shaft at the Balmain colliery to-day, and sustained injuries to the back and abrasions…

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Terrible Accident Baby Caught by Mower Brisbane

The Daily Express · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 1

G . R . Inkelmann, a farmer of [?] When mowing a crop was ignorant of the presence of his two-years old son, who had wandered into the…

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The Drowning Fatality. Coronial Inquiry

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 2

On Friday afternoon last the Coroner held an inquiry into the cause, of the death of George Edward North who was accidentally drowned at…

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Girl Bathes Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 2

Phalia Towhall a girl, was swimming at Albert Park last night with her mother, the [?] of a returned soldier, and her brother, aged 14. The…

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Motor Car Accident. Occupants Badly Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 3

Major John Campbell, officer in charge of the aboriginal settlement at Magumba, West Australia, and Lily Cochran, aged 8 years, were badly…

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Peculiar Explosion. a Fireman Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 3

A fireman named Swanson was stoking a train at Burnham, New Zealand, when an explosion in the furnace blew him on to the side of…

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"I'm Done For" Drowned in the Hawkerbury

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 3

Reg. Donnelly, aged [?] years, was with a number of others in a boat on the Hawkesbury River yesterday. when the craft overturned. Donnel…

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U.S.A Disaster. Seventy Boys Injured. New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 2

Yesterday the balcony railing at an indoor athletic meeting at Brooklyn collapsed. Several hundreds boys filled the balcony above the track and,…

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Drowned in Hawkesbury River

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 2

After a boat had been swamped and overturned on the Hawkesbury River on Sunday one of the occupants, Roy Donnelly (38), endeavored to swim…

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