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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Sensational Motor Accident. Car Travelling at 45 Miles an Hour. Gets Out of Control and Smashes a Tree

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 3

One of the most remarkable motor accidents which have happened in the Hay district occurred on Saturday tin the South Side road, and those…

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Items of News. Accident at Pullitop

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 2

A farmer named H. G. Ward, of Pullitop, last week met with an accident whilst harvesting a tangled crop. He fell on the handle of the…

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Firearm Fatality

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 2

A tragic affair is reported from Werribee. It appears that Robert Stafford (33) and Edwin Warden were hunting rabbits with ferrets, which…

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Cliff Tragedy. Believed to Be an Accident. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 2

No further developments are reported in connection with the death of Mrs. Sherriff who was found at the bottom of a cliff at Milson's Boint on…

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Painful Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 2

Mr. Bert Harris, the well known blacksmith of Wamoon, met with a [?] accident on Saturday morning last, which may result in him losing…

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Drowned in Undertow. Narrabeen Surfing Tragedy. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 February 1925 · page 3

Harold Spooner, baker, of Narrabeen, was carried out by the undertow and drowned while surfing at Narrabeen to-day…

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Aerial Collision. Strange Accident in France Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 2

A remarkable aviation accident occurred at Le Bourget. Three military aeroplanes were flying together when another aeroplane, 1500 feet higher,…

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Gale in English Channel. Lifeboat Fatality: London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 4

The English Channel aud the south coast were swept by a severe gale. Many vessels are in distress. A lifeboat from La Pochelle was…

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Motoring Smashes Fatality at Carnival Other Riders Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

There was a sensational smash at the Melbourne Motordrome on Saturday night, during the Garden City Handicap for solo motor cycles which…

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Mining Fatality Auckland

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 1

Further particulars, of the mining disaster at the Danollie State Coal Mine, New Zealand, show that John Knox was killed…

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Wagga Accidents. Mr. and Mrs. Bassett Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

A nasty motor car accident occurred last Thursday, six miles north of Gunning to Mr. H. Basaett aud party, who were travelling from Sydney to…

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Three Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

Motoring from Ballarat to Geelong, Norman, Booth, B. Cutler and N. Benkley were seriously injured when the car in which they were riding…

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Sydney Sports Ground Collision. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

There was a smash at the Sydney Sports Ground last night. While several riders were working before the carnival commenced, some of them…

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Child Drowned. Brave Attempt at Rescue. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

Hazeldene Pollard (5), residing with her parents at Newtown, was drowned in the 'Worouora River this afternoon. The child was bathing in shallow water…

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Another Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

Another motor accident occurred, this time in Wagga, on Saturday morning. Miss Schultz, aged 19, an employee of Messrs. Edmondson and Co.,…

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A Strange Fatality Child Hanged by Dummy Cord SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 1

A France fatality occurred at Bondi yesterday. Mrs. Eva Baker placed her 13 months aid son in his cot, in the front room. The dummy…

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City Courts Motorist Charged Collision with Cart Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 2

At the Parramatta Police Court' Sydney Charles Johnson was committed for trial on a charge of having caused bodily harm to Catherine…

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Painful Accident

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 5

Little Jim Elphick, the C[?]-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E[?]ck, of Grahamstown, met with a nasty accident on Sunday afternoon. He was…

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Young Man Drowned Sad End to Holiday Murrumbidgee Takes Another Life

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee has taken another young life. Yesterday Ronald James, member of a family well known in Wagga and district,…

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Mrs. Sheriff's Death. "Probably Accidental" Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 8

The interest was opened to-day concerning the death of Mrs. Eileen Sherriff, who was found at the foot of the cliffs at Milson's Point on…

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