Young Man is Desperately Injured by Ferocious Shark in Surf at Maroubra! Rift in Lute? in Associated Companies Coal Crisis Dismissal Notices Withheld Newcastle
The Sun · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 9
The New Greta and Wallarah Collieries, both associated companies, have not issued notices of dismissal to their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sergeant Truskett. Well-known Detective. Killed in Accident
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 12
Detective-Sergeant Edward Truskett, 53, of Abbott-street, Artarmon, died in the Royal North Shore Hospital last night as the result of injures received in a motor accident…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Unusual Accident While Shooting. Albury
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 12
While shooting ducks at Kiera, Raymond Jenkins, 24, of Tangambalanga, met with an accident through his gun exploding. Jenkins was shooting on Kelly's Flat, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Top of Head Blown Off Farmer's Death Grim Sequel to Car Accident Perth
The Labor Daily · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 1
WILLIAM THOMAS MAY, a farmer and contractor, of Young's Siding, was found dead at the front door of his house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cricket Chapter of Accidents Strange Inversion of History!
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 7
In past days English teams experienced little difficulty in defeating fifteen or sixteen players from an Australian State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Drowned Cooma
The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 18
Twelve-year-old John James Brodie, while bathing in Toolbar Creek with other children on Sunday, got out of his depth and was drowned in a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Youth Badly Injured
Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 9
Reginald Watman, 19. of Park-road. Marrickville. was riding home to lunch on his motor cycle to-day, when he came Into collision with a motor car in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy Drowned at Cooma. Cooma
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 15
John James Brodie (12) was drowned while bathing in Tollbar Creek. The boy got into a deep hole, and sank before assistance could reach him…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fell Off Plank Workmen Drowned Cowra
The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14
A man named Leslie Jeffrey, employed on the construction of the Wyangula weir, fell oft a plank into the Lachlan River to-day and was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lodger's Death. Woman Found Injured. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12
With blood streaming from a cut in his throat, a man staggered from a house in F[?]tzroy-street. Fitzroy, to-night. Neighbours who visited the house found a woman lying…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cargo Worth £100,000. a Racehorse Drowned. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 11
It is estimated that the Kanowna's cargo, which was lost, was worth about £100,000. The passengers lost practically all their baggage. Most of them got away with only the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shark Attack. At Maroubra Beach. Youth Terribly Injured
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 11
Allan Butcher, aged 20 years, who was cruelly mauled by a shark while swimming at Maroubra Beach yesterday afternoon, is the third person to be attacked by a shark on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fair Fight? Two Youths Fined Injured Man of 54
Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12
"IT was a fair fight." said Wallace Albert Noel Glanville, 20, and Cee[?]l joseph Manion 21. at Parramatta Court, when they were charged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatal Motor Car Accident at Chatswood
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14
Detective-Sergeant Truskett was killed when the car in which he was driving ran over an enbankment, turned a somersault, and crashed into a tree…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Speedway Accident. Bathurst
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12
When their machines crashed into a fencs in the final event at the Speedway on Saturday night Bobby Blake, a Sydney rider, and Frank Weldrick, of Lithgow, were thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatal Accident Boy Dies of Tetanus Tamworth
The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14
After being admitted to hospital suffering from Tetanus on Saturday, Selwyn Carter 15, son of Mrs. W. H. Carter, of Tamworth, died yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Drowned in Lachlan
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 19
COWRA, Tuesday.--Leslie Jeffrey, who was helping to build a bridge at Wyangala Dam, fell off a plank while crossing the Lachlan, was swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wharflaborer Injured
The Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 11
Robert Turner, aged 45, wharf- laborer, of Short-street, Balmain, was struck on the head by some timber that dropped out of a sling, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Boy Drowned in Abbotsford Baths
Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 5
RONALD CUPIT, 14, of Les-avenue, Five Dock, was drowned at the Abbotsford Baths last night. He left home at 7 p.m., and went to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cyclists Injured. Katoomba
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 18
S. Tipper and J. Wadding, of Watt-[?] Regents Park were travelling on a motor cycle and sidecar on the Great Woltern-road, near Leura when the machine left the road, and…
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