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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 237

Cyclist Swerves Into Crowd One Man Is Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 1

Owing to a brake falling, a motor cycle driven by L. Gould swerved and lashed into a footpath in Flinders street…

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Motoring and Engineering Items of Interest to the Motorist Pillion Riding Proportionately Few Accidents in Great Britain

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 22

Pillion riding, which is very popular in New South Wales, is likely to come under the ban of the traffic regulations because it is believed to be dangerous…

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Motor Accident Car Overturns

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 15

Belmore-street, Ryde is on the list for re-construction during this quarter, and probably Jack A. G. Garlick, last Wednesday evening, thought that it was not…

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Pedestrians' Paradise Gaol for Motorists Involved in Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 22

A report from Madrid states that by a stroke of its pen, the Prime Minister, General Prime de Riviera, signed an order enforcing the immediate attest of any…

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Painful Accident To Guildford Boy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 13

Master William Schey, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. T .Schey, of Guildford-road, Guildford, met with an exceedingly painful accident a few days ago…

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Accidentally Shot. Menangle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 12

Frederick Martin, 41 years, of Wynstayavenue, Enfield, was killed instantly by gunshot late on Sunday evening. He was returning by car from an outing at Douglas Park,…

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Two Women Killed. Motoring Accidents. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 12

Injuries received by Miss Eva Gentry, 20. Darebin-street, Northcote, proved fatal when she was knocked down by a motor car at the intersection of Elizabeth and Latrobe streets…

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Bombed Four Soldiers Killed Accident or Error ? LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 1

"The Times" correspondent at Lahore, reports that while British aircraft were carrying out bombing practice near Jamrud, a fortress at…

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Street Accidents Inevitable; Your Duty to Insure!

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 19

Years ago you could walk down King Street without much risk of being hurt--unless a bushranger were in town! Today, Sydney is a…

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Bombing Fatality

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 11

London, Thursday.--The Under Secretary for India (Earl Winterton), in answer to a question in the House of Commons, said that he…

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Diving Accidents. Two Men Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 13

Two bathing accidents, in which the victims both suffered injuries to the spine, occurred to-night. James Owen, 24, of Alfredcrescent, North Fitzroy, a clerk employed at…

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Two Miners Injured in Car Accident Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

T. Musssett and J. Saunders, two miners, employed at the Slate mine. Lithgow, were driving in a car owned by the former towards the Bowen-…

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Injured Spine in Dive

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 13

Melbourne, Friday.--Cyril Macpherson, 28, of McLaughlin-street, Middle Park, who is believed to have fractured his spine when diving off a man's…

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Drowned. Two Schoolboys. at Yowie Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 13

Yesterday afternoon three schoolboys sailed out to sea at Yowie Bay, near Miranda, in a derelict flat-bottomed boat. Ten minutes later one struggled…

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News From Other States Swimmer Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

In attempting to swim from the shore to a dinghy anchored in Port Hedland, John Neilson, aged twenty-five years, of Albany (W.A.), was…

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40 Drowned; Survivors' Ordeal London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

Nineteen men in an open boat were rescued to-day after being three days adrift in a northerly blizzard. They are the survivors of the steamer Heng…

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Motor Cyclists' Unlucky Spin Critically Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

Reginald Ernest Hamsard, 21, of Pentland Avenue, Punchbowl, was critically injured in Albert Street, Campsie. at 10.30 o'clock last night…

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Girl Injured. Hit by Rolling Stone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 9

Ada Muriel Golder, aged 7, of Cheltenhamstreet, Cheltenham, was badly injured yesterday morning at Church Point, when she was hit by a rolling boulder…

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