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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Collision at Sea Italian Steamer Sunk Sole Survivor's Story London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 3

Giovanni Pavon, aged 28 years, engineer of the Italian steamer Alcantara, the sole survivor from the vessel which was sunk in a collison with…

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Motor Collision Fatal Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 6

Harry Bailey, aged 24 years, of Leichhardt, was seriously injured in a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle at Haberfield last night…

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Floods in Brazil Twelve Persons Drowned Rio De Janeiro

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 2

Twelve persons were drowned as the result of heavy rain on Sunday. More than four inches fell in a brief time. The water poured down from the hills…

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Fall From Train Man Killed Finding of Accidental Death

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 1

The inquest into the death of Robert William Dowling of Richmond (Vic.) aged 31 years, whose body was found beside the permanent way on…

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Nearly a Collision Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 2

The nautical inquiry into a report that the steamers Maunganui and Tamahine had narrowly escaped a collision in Cook Strait on February 3,…

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Accident

Ariah Park News · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 5

An unfortunate shooting accident occurred at Beckom last week the victim being the little son of Mrs T. Richards. It…

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Car Driver Drowned Wentworth

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Daniel Ford, aged 42, who was recently appointed agent for a motor firm was driving up a steep bank of the Darling river, when the car ran…

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Twelve Dead Thirty-five Injured Westphalian Mining Accident Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 4

An astonishing mining accident in Westphalia resulted in 12 deaths and 35 men being seriously injured. Two large cages, one holding 27 and…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 2

Two boys, Reginald Howard and James Nechfrey, while bathing in a deep hole at the Central River, Tasmania, got into difficulties and…

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Fatal Collision With Police Patrol SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Joseph Richard Malone, aged 4, was killed, and Reginald Golding, 35, has his right thigh fractured, when a motor cycle collided with a police…

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Battleship and Steamer Collision at Malta Malta

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The British steamer, Carinthia, leaving the harbor, collided with the stem of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. The saloon balcony of the…

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Venezuelan Disorders Many Killed and Injured Lima

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 2

"La Prensa," the official newspaper of the Peruvian Government, prints a report from Caracas (Venezuela), assorting that ninny persons were killed…

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Collision at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

A collision occurred on Saturday night at the corner of Lorne and Belmore streets, Junee, a car hitting a sulky and smashing one wheel to…

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Drowning Accidents Boy Caught in Undertow Burne (Tas.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 2

Raymond Martin, aged 16 years, of Mole Creek, was caught in a strong undertow while bathing at Devonport. He was canned out and…

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Motor Accident Yass Men Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 2

As the result a motor accident on Sunday, Mr. E.G. Eirigton, solicitor, and Mr. Arthur Dean, dentist, both well known residents of…

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