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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 159

Car Crashed Into Tree. Four Men Injured. LEETON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 22

Crashing into a tree in the main street of Yanco early this morning, a car was wrecked and its four occupants injured. By a coincidence, the tree trunk was carved…

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"Smith's" Resuscitates The Apparently Drowned! Adelaide Radio Personality Revealed As Mystery Man

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

FROM Sydney to Adelaide is a long step-- approximately 1200 miles. Probably that is why Alfred…

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British Vice-consul. Melbourne Man Accidentally Shot Dead. Mexico City, Jan. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 18

The British Consulate confirms the accidental death of Mr. Thomas Dale, British Vice-consul at Chihuahua. He was born in Melbourne in 1864…

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Dal Nord Queensland Ferisce Accidentalmente Il Suo Compagno Cairns, 30 Dicembre

Italo-Australian · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 2

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Brown Injured While Fielding Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 24

In fielding a ball from Bradman, Brown wrenched his knee and was assisted from the field in the Sheffield Shield…

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Man-in-the-car Says: 30 m.p.h. No Cure For Accidents Street Opinions Hold New Law To Be Futile

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 4

What does the mechanised equivalent of "The man in the Street" -- the man behind the steering wheel -- think of the…

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Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 4

Ernest Moore, of Kent-street. Regent's Park; was taken to Auburn District Hospital on Wednesday night as a result of a collision between the car he was driving…

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£5 for Injured Reader

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

Through a typographical error, it was stated in the Daily Telegraph of Saturday that a cheque of £50 was being forwarded to Mrs. E. M. Burns, Knox Street,…

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Dog's Attempts to Rescue Child Harbor Drowning Mystery

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 3

A REMARKABLE story, suggesting that a dog had made efforts to rescue Michael Hardie Corbett, aged 2 years 11 months, when he fell into the harbor, was told to-day at an inquiry into the boy's death…

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Two Injured When Car Hit Utility-truck Accident at Granville

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 4

Passengers in a car which collided with a stationary utility-truck in Woodville-road, Granville, this morning, two people were injured, one critically…

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Injured Cyclist Wins. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 15

With stitches and bandages holding together severe flesh wounds. W. Moritz, the South Australian cyclist, outclassed a good field in the five mile scratch race at the Exhibition board track on…

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Yachting. Moonbeam and Sjo-ro Win. Boats in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 15

A fresh south-easterly breeze enabled yachts to sail round the courses on Saturday without much tacking, and there was some good racing in the Royal Sydney Yacht…

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Man Severely Injured by Surf Ski Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

Struck by a surf ski while bathing at Nobby Beach to-day, Allan O'Neill, 21, of Estelle Street, Maryville, suffered a probable fracture of…

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Tiny Planet Comes Close to Earth. Escape from Collision. CAPETOWN, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 9

How the world narrowly missed at collision with a "baby planet" in October is disclosed by the Union's astronomer, Dr. H. W. Wood…

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Boy Carried Out and Drowned Cyclonic Storm in New Zealand Auckland

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

With cyclonic force a rainstorm deluged Auckland yesterday, and in heavy gusts of wind scores of craft on the harbor got into trouble. A…

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Gas Explosion. Chemist's Shop Wrecked. Five Persons Injured. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 9

A violent explosion, believed to be due to an accumulation of gases, wrecked a chemist's shop and damaged others in a block at Remuera this morning…

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Explosion on Launch. Towed Blazing From Jetty. Three Men Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 9

An explosion occurred on the 32ft auxiliary launch Songarlti alongside the jetty at Mr. W. J. Goddard's boatshed on the Pittwater side of…

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Mother Drowned. Went to Daughter's Rescue. Child Saved with Fishing Line. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 10

Mrs. Charles Price was drowned in the Murray River at Browning's Bend, three miles from Yarrawonga, this afternoon. Mr. Price was fishing, and his daughter,…

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Luxury Craft Is Blown-up £ 5000 Damage in Blaze 3 Men Are Injured a Mystery

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

NARROWLY escaping death, a biscuit manufacturer, a boat- builder, and a bank manager were injured. the last…

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Road Accidents. Car Falls Down 90 Feet Cliff. Driver Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 6

William Thomas Collins, of Upper Bayview Street, Lavender Bay, was fatally injured when a single-seater car he was driving crashed through a fence and fell over a 90ft cliff in…

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