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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

4,393 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 220

When Accidents Happen! You Must Have ZAM-BUK For Quick, Clean Healing

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 7

In time of accident you need help [?]…

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General News ACCIDENTS

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 2

STROUD. -- While felling a tree, Montague Barnes, of Booral, was fatally injured. The tree caught in the limb of another, and both came down…

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Motordrome Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 12

Stanley Powell Hodges, the third victim of the accident at the Motordrome on Saturday night, is still in a serious condition. As a mark of respect to the men who were killed,…

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Drowned in a Cask. Guyra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 10

Hope Williams, aged 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hercules Williams, of Guyra, [?] accidentally drowned at her home yesterday afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock. [?]…

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Miner Injured. Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 10

John Thomas, a miner employed at P[?] Main, was badly injured by a fall of [?] in No. 7 east section yesterday. He [?] in a stooping position when the fall occurred…

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Broken Ribs Accident at Camden Camden

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 7

Mr. Jack Hall met with an accident while engaged in unloading metal from a railway truck at Curran's Hill…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 2

CROOKWELL.--Mr. E. Scattergood, of South Campbelltown, was cranking his motor lorry, when the engine back-ltred, striking him with great…

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Bus Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 7

Caused, it is believed, through the steering gear falling, a 'bus bound from Campsie to Sydney got out of control and crashed into a post near the…

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Drowning Accidents Fatality at Guyra Child Falls Into Water Cask

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

A little girl, four years of age, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hercules Williams, fell into a cast containing a foot of water at her home at Guyra…

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Collision at Rockdale. Five Persons Injured

The Propeller · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

Five persons were injured when a motor car collided with a horse and cart at Rockdale last Tuesday night. The car, driven by Miss Rogers, of…

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Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 3

George Henry Last (14), of Deakin-street, Auburn, met with an accident on the Parramatta-road on Saturday noon, that necessitated treatment at St…

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Collision at Rockdale

The Propeller · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

In the District Court last Friday, before Judge Scholes, as the sequel to a collision between a motor car owned by Ernest Henry Lowe, of Railway Street,…

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Machinist Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 7

Lawrence Moore, a machinist, aged 26, living at Henry Street, Waverley, sustained a painful accident yesterday while working a circular saw…

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Wharf Fatality Compensation Claimed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 2

Owing to the sliding gate of a cargo shed on the Oceanic Steamship Company's Wharf at Circular Quay being accidentally pulled from its supports…

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Riding Fatality. Judge s Daughter Killed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

Miss Ethel Ewing, the eighteen-year-old daughter of judge Ewing, of Tasmania, died on Sunday afternoon in St. Margaret's Hospital, at…

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Furious Gale Lifeboatmen Drowned Ships in Peril

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 3

The English Channel and the south coast of England was swept by a severe gale on Thursday last, and many vessels were la distress…

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Inverell a District Injured by Isolation

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

It is one of the things that cannot be explained by ordinary reasoning that such a district as Inverell should have been left so long as a railway dead-end…

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Girl Drowned at Woronora Plucky Attempt at Rescue

The Propeller · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

On Sunday last desperate attempts were made to save the life of a girl who got out of her depth in the Woronora River at Sutherland. Although a…

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drowned in murray Heroic Rescue Attempt WAGGA

The Sun · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 11

Although Arthur Shaw., a 13-yoar- old boy, made Beveral attempts to save him, Ronald James, aged 20, was drowned in a swift current iri the Murray River yesterday. James…

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Angry Bulls Three Farmers Gored One Fatally Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

Rushing to the assistance of his father, who was being gored by a ball, Rex Fry, a farmer, of Nelson (N.Z.), aged twenty-six years, was himself…

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