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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Miner Injured Scarborocgh

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 1

[?] Smith was injured by a skip in Cosleliffe colliery yesterday. He was taken to Coledate Hospital. His conditions is not serious…

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Alf. Stanton Injured at Kensington

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 36

Alf Stanton, a prominent A.R.C. jockey, was prevented from riding at Ascot yesterday, owing to meeting with an accident on the track earlier in the…

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Boy Fatally Injured. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 12

Roy Wile, aged 17 yenrs, of Neath, died in the Cessnock Hosital yesterday, as the result of a fractured skull received when his cycle came into collision with a motor car in…

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How to Bring the Apparently Drowned to Life

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 40

WHEN AN APPARENTLY DROWNED person has been laid down in the position shown, examine the mouth for seaweed or other obstructions to breathing…

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Secretly Married Double Fatality Drowned in Weir Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 13

No trace has yet been found of the bodies of the two twin brothers drowned in the canoeing fatality at E[?]don weir last week-end…

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Rescued From Drowning

The Propeller · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 7

While bathing in the Woronora River, near The Needles, last Sunday, three Hurstville boys saw a man swimming in the water some distance away,…

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Sheep Drowned in Storm

The Land · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 7

About 300 sheep, portion of 1,100, travelling to Dalby from Moree, became hopelessly bogged and were drowned at Dalwood, during a heavy…

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Injured Man's Plight

The Land · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 7

Falling 20ft. from a tree which he had climbed in an effort to secure ferns, William Clark crawled on lacerated hands and knees for two miles,…

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Fatality at Sea. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 17

While the steamer Kanowna was in the Australian Bight a few days ago Joseph Stephens, a galley hand, fell donn a compan[?], and was killed…

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Digger's Death Drowned Near Wharf

Evening News · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 9

ALFRELY BANKS, 45, a returned soldier, was missed from his home at East Hills, near Bankstown, on December 6. Four days Later his body was…

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Boy Cyclist Collision with Motorist

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

As Oliver Charles Brown (14), of Sydney-road, Granville, was riding a bicycle in the vicinity of Woodville-road, on January 26, a motor lorry driven by…

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Drowning Fatalities. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 17

Sir.—Wherever practicable, floating should be taught. During the last couple of months a number of drowning fatalities have occurred which might have been avoided had…

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Newtown Smash Cyclist Is Injured

Evening News · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 9

JOSEPH EDWARD DAVIS, 23, of [?] road, Ryde, was riding a motor cycle [?] King—street, Newtown, 10—day, when a motor car turned out of…

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"Watching the Girl" How He Saw Collision Charge Against Motorist

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 13

The day may come when even the most romantic young man will take no particular notice of a young lady riding on the back of a motor cycle. But it hasn't yet…

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News Brevities Home and Abroad Cable, Phone and Letter Twin Brothers Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 4

While Walter and William Smith, twin brothers, aged twenty-nine years, were in a canoe on the Eildon weir (Vic), on Sunday, the boat capsized…

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Motor Accidents a London Census Trade Vehicles' Toll

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 16

With the bright sunny days of summer, and the lure of the open road, the safety-first crusade receives fresh impetus. Accidents of all kinds are…

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Painful Accident Syphon Bursts

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 7

On Monday, January 22, Mr. E. J. Camplon, the well-known licensee of Merrylands Hotel, met with an exceedingly painful accident…

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Accidents at Bathurst

The Land · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 7

Bathurst experienced a chapter of accidents on Tuesday, when Mrs. W. Kellehan, of Duramana, was thrown from a sulky and suffered bruises and…

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Show-ground Accident. Man Killed at Kiama

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 4

While riding a restive horse at the Kiama (N.S.W.) show lust week, a young man named Charles Morgan was thrown and died later in the…

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Accident Causes 90 P.c. Pedestrians Police Chief's Views

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 17

"In ninety per cent. of accidents, the motorist is not to blame," said the Chief Constable of Glasgow (Scotland), in a recent speech…

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