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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 237

Motor Accidents. Car Over Embankment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 12

Edgar Fuller, 22, of Myrtle-street, Stanmore. Bernard Heron, 21, of Elizabeth-street, Ashfield, and Rowland Ward, 22 of Norton-street, Ashfield, all sustained injuries as the result…

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Accident at Picnic Sports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 7

Leonard Wasson, 19, of 424 Oxford-street, Paddington, slipped and fell on his head while doing the broad jump at a picnic sports at Killarney on Saturday afternoon. He was…

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Accident at Baseball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 7

While playing baseball in the West Manly Pat on Saturday afternoon, Hermann Fly[?] (30), of Francis-street, Bondi, fell and sustained a fractured left leg. The Manly…

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Fatal Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 12

A motor cyclist, Joseph Armstrong, 20, of Brighton, was fatally injured in a collision at Brighton yesterday. His brother, William Armstrong, 24, who was riding on the pillion…

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Three Hurt When Cars Collide Sufferers in Accidents at Week-end

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 2

Three persons were injured when two cars collided in Fifth Avenue, Campsie, yesterday. They were:--…

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Jockey Injured Kensington Collision

Evening News · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 2

A track collision between two horses occurred at Kensington this morning. Jockey G. Northover sustained a broken collarbons. He was riding Junise on the tan track…

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Two Men Injured

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 17

Albury, Tuesday. -- A motor car, driven by Walter Shelly, of Bullich, overturned on the Tallangatta-road, resulting in Michael O'Brien…

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Dog Guards Injured Master

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 10

An overturned motor car was found the Patchem parents should stick bo 'Postcombe Road; Oxfordshire. Near 'it the' driver was- lying unconsciously,…

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Flood Tragedies. Immigrant Drowned. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 11

An Atherton message says that John Draper, an immigrant, aged 17 years, was swept off his horse on Sunday while attempting to cross the Barron River and was drowned. His…

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Injured in Race Newcastle

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 5

Cepheus, who started favorite for the Newcastle Plate on Saturday, was destroyed yesterday. During the running of the race the…

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Baby Drowned Rowing Boat Capsized Mungindi

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 7

A rowing boat, containing three adults and five children, capsized on the Barwon River, ten miles from Mungindi, on Sunday afternoon…

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Better Treatment on Battlefield Let Street Injured Alone!

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 12

Again comes the warning from medical, authority to leave alone people who are knocked down in the streets, unless you are…

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28 Killed Fire in Arsenal Many Injured Sofia

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 1

A fire in a shell fuse factory in the Sofia Arsenal spread with terrific rapidity, causing 28 deaths. Many of those rescued succumbed…

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Nineteen Men Drowned Three Brothers Mother Dies on Hearing News Karachi (India)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 1

WHEN the mother of three brothers who were drowned in the Indus, wan informed of the tragedy. She swooned and died…

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Knocked Over by Cyclist Boy Injured in Front of His Home

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 12

Keith Owen (6), of Stanley Street, Leichhardt, was crossing the road in front of his home last night, when he was knocked over by a bicycle…

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Driver Falls Asleep. Fatal Motor Accident. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 12

The only explanation given of a fatal motor accident in which the driver of a motor van was killed and several people were injured, [?] that the driver fell asleep at the wheel…

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Man Killed. Blasting Accident. TEMORA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 12

John Thomas Casey (24) died in the Temora Hospital to-day from injuries received at the Ardlethan tin mine. Casey was engaged in blasting. He fired…

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Two Injured in City Collision

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 6

Two men were injured early last night when the motor-cycle outfit in which they were riding and a taxi-cab came into collision at the intersection…

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Collision in William-street

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 21

Mena Lianos, 17, of Bourke-street, Surry Hills, received a fractured skull, and Claude Buck, 21, of Elizabeth-street, Zetland, a fracture of the lower jaw and be right forearm…

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Motor Collision. Driver Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 21

Following a head-on collision between two motor cars in New South Head-road, Hond[?] last night, Roy Pincham, of Wentworth-street, Glebe, was charged at the Paddington police…

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