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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 198

Tram Collision. Man Killed. Six Passengers Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 11

A man was killed and six other passengers were injured in a tram collision on the Parramatta-road, outside University Park, early…

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Swimmer Injured

The Biz · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 4

When Reginald Woolley. 15, whose home it at Taree, and who is a pupil at the Hurlstone Agricultural High School, Glenfield, was swimming in a water-hole at…

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Cabramatta Man Injured

The Biz · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 4

When M. Keaton, 38, of Waters-street, Cabramatta, was unloading some bags of cement at the State abattoirs on Monday morning, the stack collapsed upon him…

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DROWNED. Four Persons in Victoria. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 12

Four persons were drowned in Victoria last night. At Sea Lake, Mrs. Alfred Booth and Beryl Magain, aged 7, both of Kulwin, were drowned…

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Three Drowned Woman Pays with Life Attempting Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Trying to save Beryl Magain (7) from the Murray River, near Cawarp, last night, Mrs. Irene Booth (25) was…

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Offered Sword Point Hood-renown Collision Breaks Sawbridge London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 8

It was the point of his sword which the members of the court-martial dealing with the recent collision, in the Mediterranean, off the coast of…

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Train Crashes Into Buffers Three Are Injured NEWCASTLE

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 7

WHEN a train from Maitland crashed into the buffer stops at the Watt Street end of No. 3 platform at Newcastle Railway Station this morning, the fireman and two passengers were jured…

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Rearing Horse Kicks Man to Death. Companion Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 11

One man was killed and another was injured in Hanna-street, South Melbourne, to-night, when a horse drawing a delivery van suddenly kicked at the driver and his companion, who…

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Seriously Injured in Brick-pit Girl Crashes 30 Feet On Shale Rocks From School

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 1

"DON'T cry. Everything will be all right," gasped little Evelyn Crawford, 12, of Lavender St., Five Dock, in a plucky attempt to…

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2 Tram Smashes in One Day Both at Peak of Traffic Second Collision Follows Glebe Tragedy Man's Death

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 7

"WHILE many passengers aboard a tram at Annandale last evening were discussing the collision between two double sets of trams…

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Navy Collision. Captain Sawbridge Guilty. Dismissed His Ship. (British Official Wireless and Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 11

The second of the three courts-martial arising out of the collision between the battle cruisers Hood and Renown off the coast of Spain on January 23, took place at…

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Fatal Diving Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 12

Reginald Woolley, 15, of Taree, a pupil at the Hurlstone Agricultural High School, who had his spine fractured on Wednesday when he dived into a shallow water-hole at Casula, died…

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Bricklayer Injured

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 1

AT work as a bricklayer at ehe Nepean Dairy Factory on Tuesday, 'Alfred, Kealy, of Rockdale, met with a painful accident…

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Four Injured Newcastle Accident NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 7

Four people were injured in a collision between a car and a motor lorry at the intersection of South-street, Adamstown, and the…

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Left Hospital Injured Man Returned

The Sun · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 3

Suffering from a probable fracture of the skull as the result of falling from a moving tram and being struck by a car in Elizabeth-street, city,…

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Heard by the way Burning Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 1

MR T. Cowe11, of Woodriff Street, was severely burnt about the right leg on Tuesday afternoon through a spirit lamp being accidently…

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OVERTURNED Car Accident Four Generations of Passengers

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 1

George Pullinger (78), of Parkes Crescent, Faulconbridge, was seriously injured in a motor accident on the Western Road, St. Marys,…

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School Boy's Death Inquest on High Street Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 2

That Sinclair George Clissold (11) died in Nepean District Hospital on 13th February, from severe laceration of the brain, accidentally received…

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Diving Accident

The Sun · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 7

While diving at Ramsgate Beach this afternoon, Ronald Stanley Shepherd, 16, of Wilcott-street, Earlwood, struck his head on the bottom. St. George Ambulance took him to…

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Catty Communications Jean Anderson Can Get Away With Any Fashion -- Young Sam Hordern Figures In a Motor Accident -- Pauline Men Still Very Keen On The Hatless Fashion -- Hon. Liza Clifford Honeymooning In New Zealand -- "Mick" Bruxner Knows The Knoxes Now Margaret Chisholm's

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 23

Wedding and reception went off without a hitch, and a very nice couple they looked, too, even though both are on the diminutive and round scale…

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