Fatalities and Accidents. Found Dying in the Street
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 8
George Pilgrim, an elderly man, employed as a baker at Abel and Co.'s factory, in Newtown, was found in a dying condition by Mr. Barney Waugh at the corner of Lord and King streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DISTRICT. (Before Judge. Rogers.) the Paddington Bicycle Accident. Moore V. CROPPER
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 10
His Honor delivered reserved judgment in the case in which Mrs. Josephine Moore sued to recover £200 damages from John Edward Cropper, of Leichhardt; for injuries sustained through…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 7
LONDON, Monday.--A passenger train travelling at high speed on the Great Central Railway met with a remarkable accident at Wembley Park on the outskirts of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 10
A man named Towers was accidentally drow[?]ed at Lansdowne on Saturday night…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 7
"We've heard her faults a hundred times, the new ones and the old, In songs and sermons, rants and rhymes enlarged some fifty fold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage in Queensland. Brisbane River Overflows. Pathetic Drowning Case
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 11
The floods have done great damage in Queensland, and there has been loss of life. The Brisbane River overflowed, suburban areas were covered, wharves were submerged, and there…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 2
Mr. Joseph List, aged 61, an engineer, living at Wazir-street, Arncliffe, was yesterday inspecting the Central Wharf, when he slipped from the second floor, and fell a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Events in the North: Railway Accident at Blandford. Taree Agricultural Show
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 739
THE railway accident which occurred at Blandford last week was of a sensational character, but fortunately little injury was suffered by the passengers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 739 →Fatalities and Accidents. an Amputated Arm
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 12
Hugh-Thompson, miner, engaged at Helena burgh Mines, was yesterday, the victim of a painful accident. Thompson got under one of the locomotives running at the Helensburgh siding,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Invalidity and Accidents Pensions
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 8
In the Legislative Assembly last evening Mr. Peters asked the State Treasurer if his attention had been drawn to the invalidity and accidents pensions' application form, and whether…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 47
No matter the cause or extent of your injury—whether it be the cut of a clean knife or the jag of a rusty nail—Zam-Buk is equally capable of clean and perfect healing. Mr…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 25
Passengers by the North-western mail train, making its swift way through…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 8
A collision recently took place in Cairns Harbour betwern the Normanby and Viligant, with the result that the Normanby's boat, which was hanging on the davits, did some damage to the Viligant's bridge rail…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 8
BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday. Joe Giffen, the cyclist, who fell on the asphalt track at the Western Oval yesterday, and had his ear torn off is progressing favorably in the hospital…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 1
A schoolboy, Edgar Lee, aged 14 years, living in Missenden-road, Newtown, was riding into the city on an electric car this morning, and when in George- street, near the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 8
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday. -- William Young and Alfred Hawee, employed at Hardy's mine, near Waihi, were injured through an explosion of gelignite. Young's condition is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at a Railway Crossing Woman Badly Injured
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 8
MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Mrs. Frances Rae, 25 year's of ago, residing at Northcote was wheeling a perambulator, containing her child, at the railway crossing at Northcote, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tamworth Drowning Case. Good Swimmer's Foolhardy Act
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 8
TAMWORTH, Wednesday. -- The facts regarding the sad drowning of Richard Ponsonby, on Monday evening, are now available. He had expressed a desire to swim the river in flood,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 8
LAUNCESTON, Wednesday. -- A boy, Henry Reed, was found, drowned in about 2ft. of water, at Wynyard, yesterday…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 7
Henry Dullison and another lad, who sweep the roads in the city, had a fight at the corner of George and Bridge streets yesterday afternoon. They used their brooms with which…
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