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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

4,125 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 207

Stunt Accident Woman Struck by Fast-moving Motor Cycle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Sunday.--During an exhibition, at a motor-cycle rodeo, Putt Mossman rode blindfold up a narrow incline, before hurdling his…

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Killed on Holiday Tour Week-end Accident Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 7

CASINO, Sunday.--Samuel Ro[?]bins, 55, tailor, of Ascot, Brisbane, was killed instantly, and his wife, three daughters and son injured,…

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The Sun Stop-press Girl Drowned

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 1

A young girl was [?] afternoon drowned in the Meadowbank baths…

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Said His Foot Was Caught Youth Drowned in Canoe Capsize

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 8

A verdict of accidental death was returned yesterday by the City Coroner, Mr. Oram, at the inquest into the death of Noel David In…

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Sea Disaster. Thirty-four Drowned. Freighter Broken Up by Gale. Montreal, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 9

The coast-guard station at Astoria (Oregon) has reported that 34 members of the crew of the freighter Iowa (5724 tons) perished today when the vessel was smashed to pieces…

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Rains Over Wide Area. Damage in the Country. Youth Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 9

Rain, with isolated heavy storms, fell throughout almost the whole of the State yesterday. Violent thunderstorms, accompanied by…

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Toll of the Road Cyclist Met End in Storm Head-on Collision On The Bulli Pass Heavy Fog

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 5

RIDING his motor cycle through a heavy fog and driving rain on Bulli Pass yesterday, Leslie Arthur Smith 18…

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Unusual Accident. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 10

Dazzled by the lights of an oncoming car, a motorist on Marrangaroo Hill last night decided to draw to the side of the road. As he did so his vehicle came into collision with a…

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Many Accidents in Industry Campaign by Safety League

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 4

Stressing the urgent need for guarding against accidents in factories and workshops, the Safety League of New South Wales in the first of a…

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Story for the Kiddies The Adventures Of Will Wattle-Gum A Slight Accident On The Bushland Road

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 9

ON and on went the Walloping Caravan through Bushland. Sometimes it went bumping over bridges; sometimes It bounced over the worst…

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Boy's Heel Cut Accident to Holgate Six-year-old

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 5

GOSFORD, Monday. -- Ronnie Maher, 11, of Holgate, to-day called to his brother Colin, 6, to come down out of a tree…

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Towards Recovery Mr. A. MacARTHUR Onslows Progress Since Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 1

Mr. Andrew Macarthur Onslow, 19. son of Mr. Arthur Macarthur Onslow, of Camden, was reported last night to be progressing satisfactorily in…

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Principals In Drowning Tragedy

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 1

Inset: Pretty twelve-years-old Daphne Thomas, of West Ryde, who teas drowned in Meadow bank Baths yesterday afternoon. In the main picture on the left is her elder sister, Edna, and on the right her cousin, Hazel Fenton, who made heroic efforts to rescue her…

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Scene Of Baths Drowning

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

A section of the Meadonbank bat hs, on the bank of the Parramatta River, where pretty twelve-year-old Daphne Thomas was drowned late yesterday afternoon, after her elder sister and a cousin had made repealed attempts to rescue her. She was attempting to swim to a…

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Car-cycle Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

Willam Redfern (27), of James Street, Bankstown, received concussion, abrasions, and shock, yesterday, when his bicycle and a car collided…

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Plane Damaged Collision On Ground

The Sun · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 13

A wing of the Sydney-Bega service plane was badly damaged when another plane taxied into it on Mascot aerodrome to-day…

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Girl Drowned in Baths at Meadowbank

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 15

Daphne Maud Thomas, 12, of Clarke-street, West Ryde, was drowned in the baths at Meadowbank yesterday. She was swimming with her sister and a…

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Tragic Drowning in Baths Arms & The Bankers WASHINGTON

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 1

THE opinion that during ties Great War orders for arms and munitions for the U.S.A. Government were delayed by American…

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Railway Fettler Injured. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 16

A remarkable accident, at Gerogery, near Albury, resulted in C. Potter, 21, of Goulburn, a railway fettler, suffering a broken leg. During the early morning a gang of railway…

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"Rescuer" Drowned During Life-saving Practice. CAPETOWN, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 16

A traffic constable, who was a heavyweight boxing champion, lost his wife while practising life-saving. Acting as the rescuer, he swam 75 yards,…

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