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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 187

Accidents of the Week. Man's Throat Cut

The Propeller · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 7

Rudolph Taylor, aged 57 years, residing in Green Street, Kogarah, was found in a shed last Friday at the rear of his home suffering from a…

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Sheepskins Cause Another Fatality

The Land · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 65

Following the death from anthrax of a Sydney wool store employee who had handled sheepskins from Condobolin, the Director General of Health…

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Miss Daisy Kennedy Injured in Motor Accident. LONDON, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 11

Miss Daisy Kennedy, the famous Australian violinist, suffered a badly cut face in a motor car accident to-night, while returning home after a violin recital…

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Two Lorries and Car in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 7

Two lorries and a motor car were involved to a collision in Parramatta-road, Homebush, yesterday. One lorry was owned and driven by John Skan, of Hurstville, and the other…

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District Court. (Before Judge Markell.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

Archibald Atkinson Bland, of Pitt-street, Sydney, sued A. J. Whiteman, of, Blaxlandroad. Believed Hill, for £175 for damage to a motor car resulting from a collision at the…

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Injured Boy Is Flown To City

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 2

William Elletson, 11, whose spine was dislocated in a fall, arrived at Mascot by the Intercity Airways mail plane from Broken Hill yesterday…

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Arm Torn Off in Collision Travelling Showman Killed Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 8

WHEN two lorries collided at Bonegilla, near Albury, last night, James Milllgan had one of his arms crushed off; but so great, was the…

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Supposed to Be Drowned Manly Engineer At Barrier Reef BRISBANE

The Sun · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 9

From meagre reports which have reached Brisbane, it is feared that Mr. Makinson, engineer, of Manly, was drowned after falling from a…

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Toll of the Road Old Man Injured by Car Girl Seriously Hurt

The Labor Daily · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 8

Struck by a car last night at the corner of Penkivll Street and Old South Head Road, Bondi, Christopher Bounders, 70, of Mary Street, Surry…

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Axe Accidents at Oberon. Oberon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 9

The 18-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rogers, playing with an axe, chopped one finger off and almost severed another…

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Casualties. Fatal Motor Accident. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 12

Luther Wallace Crosby, 23, financier, of Prospect-road, Prospect, and Cyril Fisher, of Matilda-street, Parkside, were killed when their car crashed into a tree on Mount…

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Fatal Accident. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 7

Edward Forrest, of Sydney, was fatally injured when a van he was driving from Sydney to Tamworth turned over a number of times about 20 miles from Tamworth on the Goonoo…

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Reported Drowning Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 1

Reported to have fallen from a launch off Hayman Island while holidaying at the Barrier Reef, Mr. Makinson, engineer of Manly, is…

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Stop Press Baby Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 1

PICTON, Friday.--Body of George Malcolm, aged nine months, recovered from a well at Thirlmere today. His mother was…

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Seriously Injured by Train

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 8

Walking across the railway lines 100 yards north of Chatswood station last night, Francis Joseph Ovens, 24 of Pacific Highway, Chatswood, was…

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Baby Drowned. Mother Rescued from Well

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 18

Mrs. Elsie Malcolm, 32, was rescued from an underground tank at her home in Victoria-road, Thirlmere, yesterday afternoon. The body of her nine-months-old child was later…

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Eye Badly Injured Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 4

When struck by a piece of coal in Wongawilli Colliery. Sydney Kirk miner, of Hamilton Street Dapto suffered a severely injured left eye…

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Injured Boy Flown to Sydney for Treatment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 10

William James Ellepson, of Broken Hill, who was suffering from severe spinal injuries, was flown to Sydney from Broken Hill on Thursday for treatment at the Royal…

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Toll of the Road Death Followed Collision. Man's Skull Fractured

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 8

STANLEY BARTON, 44, of Tharwa Road, Hamilton, died from a fractured skull yesterday in Newcastle Hospital after his bicycle and a motor…

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Worker Fatally Injured Log Slips From A Sling

The Sun · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 2

Struck by a log, which slipped from a sling at a Walsh Bay wharf yesterday, John Johnson, 54, of Murray-street, Pyrmont was thrown into the…

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