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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 198

Injured While Under Car

The Propeller · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 4

Last Friday evening Mr. Charles Taylor, of Beaconsfield Street, Bexley, was lying under his motor car greasing it, when the vehicle suddenly…

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Man's Eye Injured. Gulgong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 12

Mr. J. Malone was driving a nail in a fence at his home, when the nail flew into his left eye, necessitating his removal to hospital. It is expected that the sight will be lost…

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Country News. Woodcutter Injured, Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 12

L. King, Jua, of Alstonville, was injured at Meerschaum Vale. He was driving a steel wedge into lengths of wood, when a piece of steel flew off the wedge and entered his arm…

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Thrown From Horse Girl Badly Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 1

Misfortune followed Miss Sylvia' Eccleston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Eccleston, of Lansdowne-street, Parramatta, while she was staying with her…

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Motor Car Crashes. Several Persons Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 4

Last Sunday afternoon, a motor car being driven along Princes Highway, Kogarah, got out of control and crashed into the fencing of a bridge…

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Train Collision Eight Charged with Negligence Moscow

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 1

IT Is officially announced that 23 persons were killed and 79 seriously injured in the collision between two express trains 140 miles south…

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Reported Drowning Then Left Peculiar Behavior Of Woman Old Man Dies

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

POLICE are puzzled by the strange behavior of a woman who notified them that an old man had been drowned in George's…

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Gelignite Explosion. Two Men Injured in Well. DORRIGO

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 11

Ivan Fuller and Gordon Haydon received serious injuries this morning, when a charge of gelignite exploded in a well near the Dorrigo butter factory…

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Mob Riots in Kolhapur Seven Killed, Twenty Injured Kolhapur

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 10

Seven Mohammedans were killed and 20 injured when the police fired upon a mob at Ichalkaranji, in the Indian State of Kolhapur…

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Test Bowler. O'Reilly's Hand Injured. Caught in Lawn Mower

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 11

The test' bowler, W. J. O'Reilly, had the index finger of his right hand caught in the blades of a lawn mower at his Home at Hurstville yesterday morning, and as a result he is…

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Accident Sequel Dangerous Driving Charge

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 1

Turning from Church-street into Western-road on December 8, Donald Astor's motor-cycle ran on the footpath, collided with a motor-cycle which was…

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UNEXPLAINED Exhaust Poisoning May be Cause of Accidents

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 11

THAT a number of unexplained motor accidents might be caused through carbon monoxide poisoning following a leaky exhaust was a statement made by…

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Woman Golfer. Killed in Motor Accident. Auckland (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 12

Miss Jessie Reid, a prominent golfer, died from injuries received when a motor car which she was driving plunged 25 feet over a bank at Takapuna. It is assumed that she…

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Man Drowned

The St George Call · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 5

William Hunter, 67, of Short Street, Helensburgh, was taken from the water in Kyle Bay, Hurstville, on Wednesday. Ambulance men from St. George…

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Injured Spine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 7

WAGGA, Thursday.--William Bourne, 13, a visitor holidaying from Sydney, dived into a shallow part of the river at the bathing beach, and…

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Youth Seriously Injured

The St George Call · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 1

On Monday night a collision occurred between a motor lorry and motor cycle in Prince’s Highway, Rockdale. It is alleged that the lorry driver…

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Fourteen Believed Drowned Hull

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 1

IT is feared that 14 persons were drowned when the fishing steamer Edgar Wallace struck a sandbank and…

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Champion Pigeon Shot Fatally Injured. Remarkable Accident. Temora

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 6

Mr. Norman Smith, champion pigeon [?] of the southern districts, who recently won tha Centenary shoot in Melbourne, received fatal infuries in remarkable…

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Courageous Girl. Saves Bathers From Drowning. WAGGA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 12

Two prompt and couiagcous rescues from the Murrumbidgee River were effected at Wagga bathing beach about dusk to-night, by Loma Ellis, aged 13 years, of Wagga…

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Awards for Bravery. Newcastle Ferry Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 12

At the last meeting of the Royal Ship vvieck Relief and Humane Society of New South Wales the following awards were made:—…

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