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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

4,125 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 207

Injured Back Lifting Drum of Paint

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1936 · page 8

Leslie Stewart Pointer. 47 painter and docker, of Merton St.. Rozelle, was lifting a one-hundredweight drum of paint on to a truck at Cockatoo Island on Soptember…

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Three Lives Lost. Miners Overcome by Foul Air. Drowned in Shaft. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1936 · page 13

Three men lost their liyes to-day on the Golden West mine, at Kunanalling, 25 miles north of Coolgardie. It is believed that they were drowned while bailing out a shaft 125…

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Met Death in Search for Job Man Killed by Train Mate Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1936 · page 5

STRUCK by a good, train near Broadmeadow, railway station early this afternoon. Bobert McLaughiln 20, laborer of Flemington…

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Dempsey Injured

Referee · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 23

WHEN riding a two-year-old, which reared while working, Frank Dempsey broke the first finger of his left hand. The injury will keep…

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Cyclists Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 7

Last Saturday afternoon, in Willison Road, Bexley, a motor cycle, ridden by George Ross, of Grantham Street, Kogarah, came into collision…

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Cyclist Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 6

When Cecil Primes, of Arthur-street Granville, was riding a bicycle to work on Monday morning, his bag caught in the wheel upsetting him and causing…

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Collision with Police Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 8

William Henry Beard, 47, box manufacturer, was fined £3/10/ at the Redfern Police Court yesterday for driving a motor lorry in a manner dangerous to the public. It was…

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Boy Fatally Injured

The Sun · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 17

Struck by a motor lorry in Regent-street. Redfern. to-day, Charles Leslie Schwartz. 20, of Church-street. Parramatta, was fatally Injured…

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Motor-Cyclist Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 5

When William Bishop (37), an employee of the Electricity, Department was riding his motor cycle along Joseph-street, Lidcombe, he turned into…

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Cycle and Truck Guildford Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 18

Only the alertness of a utility truck driver saved Arthur. Williams (16), Woodville-road, Guildford, from serious injury on Friday when his bicycle…

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Child Is Seriously Injured

The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 6

RUNNING across Alice Street, Newtown, only a few yards from his home, last night, Donald Eastgate, 6, was seriously injured when he was…

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Ganger Killed. Collision on Railway. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 12

One man was killed and another injured when a motor trolly and motor tricycle met in head-on collision on the interstate railway line near Glen App, this afternoon. The…

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Pedestrians Struck by Car. Several Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 7

Late on Saturday night two young men and two young women were walking along Park Rd., Ramsgate, when they were struck by a motor…

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Motor-Cycle Overturns Man and Wife Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 6

A motor cycle ridden by Reginald Sturgess, of Asquith-street, Auburn, overturned in Pennant Hills-road, Parramatta yesterday…

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Man Rescues Horse. Drowning in River. Swam Out and Cut Harness. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 15

J. Furze, a visitor from Melbourne, rescued a horse from drowning this evening. W. F. Bailey was driving the horse and cart near the bank of the Murrumbidgee River at…

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A Tragic Accident. Death of Missionary Bishop

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 5

A letter to Propaganda from Iringa, Tanganyika Territory, Africa, brings details of the motor accident in southern Tanganyika which resulted in the death of…

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Fatal Accident Mount Druitt Man Killed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 18

Riding along Western-road, Colyton, an Saturday afternoon, Mr. Douglas Robertson, a resident of Mt. Druitt, was struck by a ear and killed…

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Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 18

Slipping on the floor at her home in Toongabbie-road, Toongabibe last week, Miss Amy Jeffries broke a small bone in her ankle…

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Accident in Sawmill. Goondiwindi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 9

Lance McIlveen, a member of the firm of Mcilveen and Littlewood, sawmillers, Giddi Giddi Gooray near Goondiwindi was sawing timber yesterday when his left hand was…

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Avoided Fatality

The Biz · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

Mr. and Mrs. Pa[?]mer, estate agent, Military-road, accompanied by a friend, Mr. L. Peterson, were going to Austinmer recently, and the brakes of their car failed…

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