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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Shocking Fatality. Ex-soldier Fails From Window

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 3

A man named Barney Hamill, about 50 years of age, died on Monday from injuries sustained from falling from a window at the Caledonian…

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Items of News. Diving Accident

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 2

Bertie Anderson, aged 14 years, living at Union street, Brunswick, Victoria, met with a painful accident when diving from the pier at…

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Fatal Accident Death of Mimosa Lad

Ariah Park News · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 4

The sad death occurred at Temora silos on New Years' Eve, of Allan Alfred, the 11½ years old son of Mr and Mrs H…

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Racing Fatality

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

Mr. Harry Smerdon, of Toomahad the misfortune to have his well-bred more, Vocation, killed while racing. at Ballarat. The jockey also…

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Man Drowned

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6

Paddy Heyland, who drove a six-horse coach with a dozen Sydney tourists from Cooma to Gundagai, in a day and a half about 25 years ago,…

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Boy Fatally Injured at Silo Weighbridge

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 1

Mingled with the New Year rejoicings came word or a sad accident by which Allan Alfred Freeman, aged 11 1/2 years, son of a Mimosa farmer…

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Body in River. Patrick M'Kearney Found Drowned. Missing for Three Days

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

Early yesterday afternoon a man named Albert Simmonds was cutting burrs on Orange Tree Point, about three miles up the Murrumbidgee River from…

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Strange Accident

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 1

Harry Johnson, the 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Johnson, of Gunning, met with a painful accident on Thursday evening. The young lad had…

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Fishing Fatality

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 4

The young man, Roy Edwards, who was drowned as the result of a fishing boat accident off Albert Park beach, Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon,…

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Three Men Drowned. HOBART

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 2

While two prospectors, Harry Green, and a man named Kinsell, and George Jones, were being conveyed in a steam launch to Cockle Creek, Tasmania, the…

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Baby Boy Drowned. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 4

William Dawson, aged 18 months, was drowned in a water hole near his home at Waterloo this afternoon. The baby wandered away and was not…

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Collision of Cars. Driver Killed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 2

A collision between two cars at Neutral Bay yesterday resulted in several persons being more or less seriously injured…

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Mining Accident Workman Killed SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 1

A workman named Peter Peterson, was descending a shaft at a mine near Lithgow to-day, when the ladder broke and he fell 50 feet to the…

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Head-on Collision

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

A motor smash occurred at the intersection of Johnston and Trail-streets last night which might easily have had more serious consequences for Mr…

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Fatality on the Railway. MARYBOROUGH

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

Herbert Woods (18) was found unconscious in a train near Bundaberg with his skull badly smashed. He died some time later. It is believed…

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Items of Interest Tumut Native Injured

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 3

Mr. Dug. Wilson of Illabo, met with it nasty accident on New Years Day. He was loading logs on to a waggon and, having one end of a large log on…

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Fog Enveloped London. Rail and Tramway Accidents. Air and Land Traffic Stoppages. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 2

The unseasonable dense fog which has enveloped London for two days is most seriously interfering with the traffic in the streets, causing stoppages…

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Railway Smash in Sydney Trains Collide at the Central OVER 15, Injured Home Seriously Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 2

A railway accident very nearly fraught with a terrible death [?]oll occurred outside the Central Station during the busy traffic at 6.26 this…

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A Nasty Accident

Ariah Park News · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 4

Mr A. Nicholson and two little girls had an unenviable experience on Wednesday, while proceeding with the Wallaroobie…

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Gun Fatality. Coroner's Advice to Adults. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 4

At the inquest concerning the death of Gladys Malone, from the effects of a ballot wound, evidence was given by Ronald Hepper (12) that he only…

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