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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Accidentally Shot

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 16

Maryborough, Monday.-- H. Clarke, while staying at the Palace Hotel, Nanango, was handling a loaded revolver yesterday morning, when it…

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To the Rescue Fine Feat by Ambulance Men a Woronora Accident

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 1

Thomas [?]…

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Two Serious Falls Newcastle Accidents Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

Falling from a motor cycle Mantling Faint this afternoon, [?]…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

PARKES.--Mr. S. Warran, jun.. was driving stock on New Year's Day, when he flicked himself in the left eye with a whip, cutting the ball and severing…

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North Sydney Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

Charles Currie, aged 17, of Elizabeth-street, Redfern, who received a serious head injury at North Sydney on Thursday, when a motor lorry, containing twenty picnickers bound for…

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Tree-felling Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

Thomas Gonsage, aged 30, a labourer, who resides with his wife and three children on Price's estate, Woronora, was the victim of a serious accident on Saturday. He is now…

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Drowning Fatality In Lidcombe Baths. Body Found by Diving

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 1

Through being unable to swim, George Pye, aged 11. was drowned in the Lidcombe Baths, on Saturday afternoon. A number of apparently unowned…

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Motor Collision Sydney Man Injured BATHURST

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 8

J. Coleman, of Sydney, was admitted to St Vincent's Hospital with an arm froctured in two places, two ribs broken, and severe shock, as the…

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Railway Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 10

who was the victim of a collision between a train and a motor car at Tuggerah level creasing on Sunday evening. He was a native of Parramatta, and was 49 years of age. Mr…

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Driver Was Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 5

When this car went over the bridge at half-past five yesterday morning, at Bungendore, the driver, B. Thomas, of Queanbeyan, was knocked unconscious and drowned…

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Cycle Collision Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 8

While [?] prior to [?]most [?] riders, collided with another ruler and…

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Tram Conductor Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 10

While collecting fares on the footboard of a tram in New South Head-road, Edgecliff, yesterday, Neville Lomax, aged 25 years, a tram conductor, was struck by a passing 'bus…

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Cycle and Sulky Another Collision

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 8

A motor cycle and a sulky, crashed into each other on Prince's Highway, Blakshurst, last night. The driver of the cycle, Ronald Cook,…

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Man Injured by Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 10

Arthur Ryan, aged 32, caretaker, of the Hampden Oval, at Rushcutter Bay, sustained a fractured right leg when he slipped and fell at the oval yesterday. The Civil Ambulance…

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Casualties. Motor Cyclists Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 10

Clive Helies, aged 17, of Chippendale, was riding a motor cycle along the Great western-road. Prospect, about 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, with Nelson Hartnett, 17, and Alfred, 19,…

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Motor-driver Fined Woman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 5

When John Henry Bryan was fined £5 by Mr. M'Mahon, S.M., at Newtown yesterday on a charge of having driven a motor car past a stationary tram. It…

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"Easiest Way" De Garis on Drowning Searching Seashore Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 7

Circulars giving particulars of the disappearance of Mr. de Garis have been sent by the police to all cities of the Commonwealth…

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Two Injured Cycle and Sulky Collide

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 10

A collision occurred in Prince's Highway. Blakehurst, last night, between a motor cycle and a sulky, as a result of which Ronald Cook, of…

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Snake in Sewer Shaft Workman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 9

When workmen hauled up a bucket from the bottom of No. 12 sewer shaft at Willoughby yesterday, they were surprised to find it [?]ained a large…

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Enamel Ignites Boy Severely Injured Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 6

An accident of an unusual character occured at the Zig-Zag[?]…

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