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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

2,492 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 125

Airliner Damaged. Accident to Loila When Taking Off. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1939 · page 13

The DH86 passenger plane Loila was damaged when she was taking off for Melbourne this afternoon. The port side engines cut off as she was taxi-ing across the…

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Sequel to Motor Accident. Insurance Question. Bankruptcy Hearing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1939 · page 13

Liabilities arising from a motor car. smash: near Bulli as far back as, October 5, 1936, were mentioned before Mr. Justice Lukin in the Bankruptcy Court…

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Athlete Blames Swimming For Mishap Stenner Injured In State Relay Run

The Sun · Sunday 15 January 1939 · page 18

"I only hope I will be able to meet Jim White in the State 120 yards Hurdles title," said Syd. Stenner, yesterday, after he had pulled a thigh muscle at the Sports Ground. Stenner was injured after he had given South Sydney a…

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Fortune in an Accident

The Sun · Sunday 15 January 1939 · page 26

One hundred years ago a young inventor named Charles Goodyear, experimenting with rubber to find a way of making it commercially…

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Drowned While Fishing. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 7

William John Miller, 74, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee near the Wagga bathing beach when he entered the water to release a fishing line caught by a snag…

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Drowned in River Wagga

The Sun · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 3

Reginald Manning (19). steward at the Riverina Club, Wagga, was drowned while bathing in the Murrumbidgee River to-day…

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Scoutmaster and Scout Saved From Drowning. Man Dives Into River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 5

James Claik, 35, of Smithfield Road Fairfield dived into the George's River at Casula at dusk on Saturday night and saved the lives of a boy scout and a scoutmaster…

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Two Drowned When Boat Capsized. Christchurch (N.z.,)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 18

R. F. McKenzie, married, and H. L. Reddell, single, were drowned in Lyttelton Harbour yesterday afternoon, when their small salling boat capsized. A third occupant was…

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Girl Drowned in Dam. Brothers' Fight for Her Life. ALBURY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 11

For about thiee horns on Tuday night relatives ambulance offiers, and doctors waged a stern fight in an endeavour to save the life of Patricia Josephine Quinn, 1,9 after she…

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Murder Mystery Injured Man in Van. Bullet Found Later

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 11

Detectives who are searching for the man or men who murdered and robbed Leslie McAllister, 36, single, butcher, of Monbulk, on Friday are handicapped by…

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TWO Road Deaths Many Injured in Week-end Smashes

Daily News · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 2

TWO MEN were killed and several persons seriously injured in road accidents at the week-end…

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Road Accidents. Man, Wife and Two Sons Hurt. Car Overturned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 6

One of two cars which collided at the intersection of Anzac Parade and Fitzgerald Avenue yesterday, overturned. The injured were Albert Machan, 35, of…

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"Accident" Was Murder Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 3

Police have made no headway in their search for the murderers of Leslie Richard McAlister (38), a Monbulk butcher who was shot and…

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Fatal Fall on to Steel Sheet Man Killed In Peculiar Bicycle Accident

Daily News · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A peculiar accident caused the death of Walter Stewart 26, of Macquarie Street, Merewether, last night…

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Injured Horses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 1

Peekmond gave himself a severe knock on the inside of the near front fetlock joint while racing in the second division of the Maiden Handicap at Warwick Farm, and is lame. Pearl Verde strained…

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Injured Radio Artists

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 2

Athol Tier, Mrs. Tier, John Tate, and Dan Agar, radio artists, who were injured in a car smash in Parramatta-road Annandale, last night,…

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Two Radio Artists in Motor Accident. Athol Tier arid Dan Agar Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 12

Athol Tier and Dan Agar, well-known to radio listeners as "Mrs. Arris and Mrs. Iggs," were injured in a motor smash at the intersection of Young Street and Parramatta Road…

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Radio Artists Injured In Car Smash

Daily News · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 1

"MRS.' ARRIS and Mrs. 'Iggs," two of Australia's best-known radio artists, were injured in a car smash in Parramatta Road, Annandale, last night. They are Athol Tier, 48, of New South Head Road, Double…

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Crew Abandons Steamer in Blinding Rain Crashes On To Rocks At Maroubra Men Brought Ashore on Life-lines One Injured: Boat Smashed In Heavy Sea

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 1

Crashing on to the rocks near Maroubra Beach last night the steamer Belbowrie (218 tons) had to be abandoned. One member of the crew was injured while…

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Manslaughter Charge After Fatal Accident. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 7

William Earnest George Whittaker, 27. of Condobolin, was killed instantly when riding in the dicky seat of a car, which collided head-on with a truck in Forester Street…

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