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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

3,212 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 161

Painful Accident

The St George Call · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 3

Mr. J. Lobb, the well-known caterer of Railway Parade, Kogarah, met with a nasty accident, last Saturday afternoon. He was arranging tables at…

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Collision at Ultimo Two Men Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 20

Two men were injured in Harris Street, Ultimo, late yesterday afternoon, when a motor car collided with one of F. Lassetter arid Company's…

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Motor Accidents. Collision with Taut Rope

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 13

Mr. Jenkyn Denham, aged 28 years, of Nelson Bay-road, Broute, was driving a motor cycle and sidecar, with his grandmother, Mrs. Alice Llewelyn, aged 89, as passenger, along…

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Goulburn Boy Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 20

Henry David Piggott (12½), of 238 Sloan Street, Gloulburn, visiting Sydney, fractured his right thigh and left leg through being struck by the…

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Two Men Drowned Albany

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 20

The bodies of two seamen were found floating in the harbor. They are believed to be those of William Standing and John Blythe, seamen of…

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Motor Accident Remarkable Escape. Car Hangs Over Precipice

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 5

Mr. H. G. A. Harding, a well-known chemist, together with Mr. Briscombe, dentist, of North Sydney, had a remarkable escape on Tuesday night. Mr…

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Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 11

Mr. Tom Wilson had the painful experience last Thursday night of being kicked and trodden on by a horse. He went into the stall for the purpose of…

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Accident to Tram Conductor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 8

A tram conductor, Mr. Collis, who is well known at Ryde, was badly injured one day recently, through being crushed by a motor 'bus, below Drummoyne, Mr…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 8

A motor cycle accident in Liverpool Road yesterday morning resulted in two persons being badly injured. They were:--…

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Motor Cycle Fatality

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 April 1923 · page 2

MITTAGONG, Saturday.—The coroner at Mittagong returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of Mr. Thomas Edward Scott, who succumbed…

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Boating Fatality Feared

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 3

WOLLONGONG. -- On Saturday morning about 4 o'clock William Gibson Roy went out alone in a small dinghy. Late in the afternoon the police were informed be…

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Injured by Detonator. Zeehan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 10

Bert Bell, six years old, was, in association with a companion, playing with a detonator. He struck the end of it with a hammer causing an explosion, from which the child…

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Girl Injured Cyclist Heavily Fined

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 5

Mr. Porry. D.S.M, declares that he is determined to check the dangerous practice of cycilets and driven palling stationary trams…

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HAD £1300 Motor Fatality Strange Suichie Minister in Car

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 5

"I have been sitting in the cark, and the thought has come [?] me that I would like to drow [?] self." Simon M'Donald, [?] made [?] for Label and [?] ness at the [?] to-day…

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31 Lives Lost Collision at Sea One Steamer Sunk

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 4

News reached Sydney yesterday by the steamer Changsha of a disastrous Collision 65 miles from Singapore, involving the loss of 31 lives…

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Two Drowned Dinghy Capsizes N.Z. Tragedy AUCKLAND

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 1

As the resilt of a [?] capsi1 in Manukau Harbor, yesterday afternoon Henry Bowater and Frank Barnes were Browned…

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Cyclists Injured. Overtaken by Motor Car. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 10

When returning to Footscray after a cycling trip to Geelong with about 18 of their club mates, three members of the Footscray Cycling Club were overtaken by a motor car…

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Run Down by Motor Car Two Men Injured

The Sun · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 3

While walking home along Allisonroad, to Randwick at 12.30 a.m. today. Ernest Leslie Cheacoe. Belmoreroad and John Brown,…

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Two Men Drowned Rescuers Saw Them Too Late Auckland (N.z.)

The Sun · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 3

Another harbor tragedy occurred during a gale. A launch party on Manakau Harbor were going ashore in a dingy, when a heavy sea…

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Baby Through Window Fall From Train Seriously Injured Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 3

While Alpert Sweatman, aged 3 years, was travelling with his mother, by train from Ararat to Ballarat on Saturday he fell out of tho carriage…

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