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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Rum=runner Wrecked Four of Crew Drowned Gallant Rescue Attempt Vancouver

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 1

The rum-runner Noble, a famous bootlegging schooner operating between Vancouver and Sari Francisco, was wrecked to-day on the west coast of…

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Broken Leg Each Brothers in Accident MELBOURNE

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 6

Two brothers, Norman Bailey, 28, laborer, and Corringe Bailey, 21, who live in Nepean-road, Brighton, sustained a broken leg each when motor cycles…

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Collision At-parramatta. Two People Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

Two motor cars, driven by Charles Richard Maye, of Bay-street, Mortlake, and Alexander Speers, of Wentworthville, collided yesterday morning on the Western-road, near Church…

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Head-on Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

A head-on collision on the Great Southernroad, Ingleburn, last night, resulted in two cars being badly damaged. One person was injured…

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Skidded, Then Crashed Two Injured in Parramatta Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 15

Two men were injured in a collision between two motor-cars on the Western Road, near Church Street, Parramatta, yesterday afternoon…

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Little Boy Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 17

While hundreds of people were on the beach and in the water opposite the lifesaving club-house at Hampton this evening, Jack Williams, aged 9, of Elder-parade, Esssen…

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Farmer Injured. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

Whilst working a harvester on his farm in the Mangoplah district, R. Jarick, a wellknown farmer, was inserting an arm through the wheel when the horses started the ma…

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Brothers Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

Norman Bailey, aged 28, and his brother, C. Bailey, 21, while riding motor cycles, collided with a taxi cab in Beach-road, Brighton. Both received a fractured leg, and Norman's…

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Surfing Fatality. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 13

Stella Geraldine Knight, aged 14 years, and her younger brother, while bathing in the surf at Lyall Bay, got into difficulties. Both were brought ashore, but efforts to restore anima…

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Motor Accidents. Car Overturned. One Man Killed, Five Others Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

One Man (Martin Madson) was killed and five other people injured when a motor car, driven by Madeline Madson, overturned on the Western-road yesterday afternoon. The acci…

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Sydney Rider Injured. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 16

At the Speedway Royal on Saturday [?] Len Jones, the Sydney motor cyclist, fell and broke an arm near the shoulder. It will be three months before he will be again able…

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Car Overturns Two Men Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 3

Two men were hurled violently to the roadway yesterday afternoon when a car overturned on the Western Road, Emu Plains…

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Lost Sapphire Miner Probably Drowned Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 4

The police party searching for the old man who has been missing from comet Downs, found a hat which has been identified as belonging to him…

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Two Injured When Car Overturned Parramatta Road

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 1

Attempting to pass another car, George Gardiner, 24, of William Street, Balmain, overturned his car on the Western Road, Parramatta, yesterday…

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Four Injured Randwick Smash Car: Taxi Collide

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 11

WHEN a motor car and taxi collided at the corner of Carrington-street and Belmore-road, Randwick, last night, four people were injured…

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Not the Real "Tiger" Payne in Sydney Bathurst Boxing Fatality

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 9

"Tiger" Payne, the American negro boxer, was not the man concerned in the contest at Bathurst, which resulted in the death of Emmet Murphy in…

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Family's Ill-luck Four Injured in Motor Smash

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 3

Four persons were injured in a collision on Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, yesterday morning, when a service car, and a motor car were…

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Injured Workers Fighting Bush Fires Insurance Question Yass

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 9

An interesting and important question has been raised locally as to whether a rural employee, injured while engaged lighting a bush fire on a…

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Fourteen Drowned Hundreds Homeless London's Awful Flood Worst in Seven Centuries London

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 1

A REVISED list of the number drowned in London's devastating flood shows a total of fourteen. Hundreds of homeless and scantily-clad people, including many children, crowded into the relief depot at…

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London Flooded. Thames Overflows. People Drowned in Basements. Four Girls Perish in One Room

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 11

In the early hours of Saturday morning the Thames overflowed in consequence of flood water meeting an unusually high tide. London was flooded, and within a few hours a death-roll of 14 was reported. Terror-stricken people were rescued by police from tenements and…

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