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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Accidental Death Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 5

The police have come to the conclusion that Hilda Johnson, aged 15 years, who died after eating a poisoned chocolate, met her death…

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Curious Accident Lorry "Bolts" in City Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 2

Samuel Orchard, aged 45 years, was cranking a motor lorry to-day, at the coiner of George and King streets, and forgot that it was still in gear…

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Week-end Accidents in Victoria Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 3

One man was killed and more than 20 persons were injured in motor accidents in Victoria during the weekend…

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Holiday Accidents Head-on Collision Nine Persons Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 2

Nine persons were injured in a terrific head-on collision between a motor lorry and a motor car at Campsie this afternoon. A girl, aged 9…

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Surfing Fatality Victim's Daughter Rescued Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 2

Stanley Wallace, aged 39 years, of Chatswood, and his daughter, aged 14 years, were carried out in the surf at Balgowlah to-day. Both were brought…

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Motoring Fatality Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 6

Mrs. Beatrice Raynor, aged 49 years, of M'Laren Vale, was killed when a motor lorry containing 18 persons overturned near Victor Hanbor last night…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 4

Alan Wilson aged 23 years, of Croydon, received severe facial injuries when his motor cycle and another cycle collided to-day. The other…

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Gas-pipe Bursts Five Persons Killed Seventeen Others Injured Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 7

The bursting of a main (gaspipe) at Duisbung resulted in five Persons being killed and 17 others in adjoining houses being taken to hospital in…

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Holiday Accidents in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 1

During the Christmas and New Year holidays in New Zealand 13 total accidents occurred. Five persons were killed in railway accidents, six…

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An Extraordinary Accident

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 4

After returning with a few friends from a fishing and shooting excursion at 9 o'clock last night, Mr. K. ("Brone") Mitchell, met with an…

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Drowned in the Murray

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

The body of Jack Kovicebach was yesterday recovered from the Murray River, nearly three miles below the Hume Weir, by a boundary rider of…

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Fettler Cut to Pieces. Fatality at South Goulburn

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

Run down by the Temora mail train, as he was riding a tricycle to-wards Yarra, Francis O'Neill a railway fettler, was cut to pieces at…

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MR. W. A. Mills Drowned While Swimming a River

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 4

Further particulars of the drowning fatality at Hay, mentioned in the telegraphic news in our last issue, in which Mr. William Ainslie Mills,…

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Over Embankment Motor Cyclist Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

While Frank Coleman aged 19 years, who riding a motor cycle at Pymble to-day his machine got out of control and went over a 20 foot…

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Caught in Conveyors Two Men Fatally Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

While working at the Clyde Engineering Works today Edward Doherty, aged 42 years, of Granville, was caught between a traversing conveyor and a…

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Bush Fire in Hills Near Holbrook 5000 Acres Covered Fire Fighter Seriously Injured HOLBROOK

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 4

Yesterday, about mid-day, word was received in Holbrook that a bush fire had broken out near the Chnamen's gardens behind Mr. Joseph Lawson's…

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Bathing Accident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 4

Martin Robins, of Trall street, Wagga, a schoolboy, while bathing at the beach yesterday afternoon met with an accident. He dived into the…

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Drowned Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 1

While playing with other boys on the bank of the Hawkesbury river at Windsor, Francis James Jewings, aged 6, slipped into the water, and was…

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Cootamundra Lady in Melbourne Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

Mrs. Milne, of "The Wembley," Cootamundra, intended to spend three weeks holiday in Tasmania, and with that idea in view, left Cootamundra be…

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Man Drowned Wife Witnesses Tragedy Mildura

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

While James Oppy, aged 42 years, grocer, was fishing in the Murray River yesterday at Bleeser's Bend he slipped and overbalanced from a rocky…

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