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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Accidents

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 5

Statistics show that in fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. Further evidence of this fact is supplied…

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Sad Drowning Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 August 1902 · page 6

London, Saturday.—Apeculiarly and drowning accident, resulting in the death of five little girlo, in reported from Filey Beach, a small but…

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The Manly Drowning Case

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 3

A magisterial inquiry was hold at the Lloyd Hotel, George-street North, on Monday, into the circumstances connected with the death of a single woman, named Olene…

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New Zealand Steamer in Collision

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 6

The collision between the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rangatirs and the ship Ardgowan was a rather sensational affair according to…

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Injured by a Falling Tree. Accident Near Robertson

Robertson Advocate · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

A painful accident happened on Wednesday last to Mr. Edward Bursill, carpenter, of Robertson. He, in company with Messrs. James…

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Serious Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 2

London, Thursday.—The President of the United States of America has narrowly escaped death, or serious injury, in an accident upon an electric trolley line…

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Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 2

An accident of rather a painful nature befell Mr. T. E. Bureill, carpenter, of Robertson, at Kangaroo Valley on Wednesday last. Mr. Bureill, having recently…

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Fatal Ballon Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 6

London, Tuesday.—Spectators playing yesterday with a captive war-balloon at Leatherhead (near Epeom. in Surrey), released it, with the result…

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Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 September 1902 · page 2

A gainful accident happened to a boy named Norman Prott, son of Mr. A. Prott, Postmaster, at Mittagong, last week at the local public school. It…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

A sad burning accident occurred at Mittagong on Saturday afternoon, by which the little three year old daughter of Mr. a[?]d Mrs. J. Dowling met her…

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Fatal Burning Accident I

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

A sad burning accident occurred at I Mittagong on Saturday afternoon, by which the little three year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dowling met her…

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Accidental Burning Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

On Sunday last at Mittagong a little 3-year-old daugater of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Dowling was playing in the washhouse where her mother was employed…

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Where Accidents Happen

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

According to the experience of the accident insurance companies, about the safest place for a man to be is in a train or aboard an ocean…

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Sad Burning Fatality

The Mittagong Argus · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

Last Saturday afternoon, a sad burning fatality occurred at the residence of Mr. Jas. Dowling, at Oaklands, by which his three-year-old…

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A Shooting Accident

The Mittagong Argus · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

An accident, luckily unattended with fatal results. befel Mr Ernest Nichols, on Monday afternoon last. In company with Messrs G. Armfield…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 2

A young girl named Lilian Hay Toole met with a shocking fatal accident. She was with her father, at the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co.,…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 October 1902 · page 1

Albury, Friday.—Some time during yesterday John Box, aged 19, youngest son of Mr. Joseph Box, a well-known resident of Lavingtoo, took a rifle from…

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Extraordinary Accident

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 29 October 1902 · page 3

As a result of an accident at the Cortland (New York) County Fair, a woman's face may be disfigured for life. A Mrs. Charles Loy, of Summerville, fainted…

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A Railway Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 1

Armidale, Tuesday.— A terrible railway accident was reported this evening. Samuel Burnett, of the Telegraph Department, was run down…

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