Merle Oberon Gets Damages. Injuries in Car Accident. LONDON, Feb. 13. (A.A.P.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 15
The Court awarded Merle Oberon, the Australian film st[?] £5,000 damages, plus £693 costs, against her chauffeur for injuries she received in a road accident…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Child Problems Over The Teacups Warning Children Against Accidents
The Sun · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 14
SHOULD one read out accounts of accidents to children as a warning? "In order to impress my eight-year-old John with the dangers of street traffic, my mother has been reading out to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Two Killed In Road Accidents
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 2
A man and a woman were killed in road accidents yesterday. Mary Strong, of Flora Street, Lakemba, was fatally crushed when a car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclist Injured
Liverpool News · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 2
Also in The Biz, The Sydney Morning Herald
Vernard Oscar Gleuth, 25, of the Royal Australian Air Force, who is stationed at Richmond, received a fracture of the skull when his motor cycle and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Husband and Wife Injured
The Biz · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Scanlon. of Fairview Road, Cabramatta, were driving in a car on Hume Highway. Lansdowne. on February 10. when a motor van collided…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident a Children's Playground
Nepean Times · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 4
Joyce Hair, (13), daughter of Mr and Mrs George Hair, of Derby Street, Fenrith. met with an accident whilst swinging in Judges Park on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Peakhurst. Dangerous Road Turning
The Propeller · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 7
Another accident occurred at the intersection of Forest Road and First Street, Peakhurst, on Tuesday night, at the same place where a fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hillcrest Avenue Crossing. Two More Accidents
The Propeller · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 7
Two more accidents occurred at the dangerous Hillcrest Avenue-Belmore Road crossing at South Hurstville during the week-end, adding to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Watchman Injured
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 11
Albert Berry, 38, of Terry Street, St. Peters, a watchman, was severely burned at the works of Reckitts (Oversea), Ltd., Bourke Street, Redfern, early yesterday morning. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Army Officer Drowned In Surf
The Sun · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 7
High tributes to the military service of the into Major Cecil Phillip Webb, quartermaster of the 9th Field Ambulance, were paid by officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I.R.A. Bombs Explode, Man Injured LONDON
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3
As the result of a midnight explosion in a shoe shop in central Birmingham a man is in hospital, seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed in Car Accident Casino, Thurs
Daily News · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3
Charles William Cross, 48, breadcarter, died in hospital to-day from injuries received when his van was hit by a car…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 5
John Lee, 27, St. John's Road, St. John's Park, was critically injured when a car struck him in Parramatta Road, Concord, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pay Car in Collision
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Four employees of Greater Newcastle Council were injured when their car came into collision with another at the intersection of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Assume Boy Drowned
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Howard Alexander, 8, of Richmond, who disappeared at Hampton Beach two weeks ago, was drowned, police assume…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boiler Explodes Four Men Injured
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 1
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Pour men were when a boiler they were testing at the Commonwealth Steel Products, Waratah, exploded today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Randwick Fails Against St. George Oldfield Off Injured Brilliant Century By Barnes
The Sun · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 9
Randwick failed to recover from a bad start against the leader, St. George, in the grade cricket competition to-day and was dismissed for 139. Barnes scored a fine century for Petersham, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Oldfield Is Injured
The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1940 · page 24
Gordon, after an inglorious batting display against Western Suburbs yesterday, struck further trouble…
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