Child Injured, Truck Capsizes
A truck turned over twice in Edgar-street, Chatswood, today, when the driver made a desperate but vain attempt to avoid…
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President's Mother Injured in Fall
NEW YORK, Saturday.--Mrs. Martha Truman, the President's 94- years- old mother, suffered a; fracture of her right hip last night as the…
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A man, whose name is believed to be Charles Alfred Rowbotham, cleaner, was found injured in a lift well in the Australian Food…
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NEW YORK, Saturday.--Mrs. Martha Truman, the President's 94-years-old mother, suffered a fracture of her right hip last night as the…
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A 17-year-old girl suffered serious injuries at 9.30 a.m. yesterday when she fell 25 feet from the roof-top of a flat in Wylde Street, Potts Point…
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A man was seriously injured last night when he fell down a lift well in a building occupied by Australian Food Stores, Ltd., Old South…
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HEROIC rescue efforts failed to save one of three men thrown into a boiling sea when a launch was wrecked off Middle Head cliffs yesterday. Many clifftop watchers saw the three men first…
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A misunderstood order which caused Kev Aldridge (sweep) to loose his oar and Alec Dennett (stroke) to sustain a jagged two inch cut under his chin, cost North Curl Curl the marathon surf-boat race at Coogee yesterday. It was a race of incidents. The mishap occurred as North…
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Struck on the left temple by a cricket ball yesterday. Ernest Francis Neary, 15, of Belleview-avenue, Lakemba,…
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HEAD-ON SMASH, Two double-decker buses after a head-on collision at The Boulevarde, Strathfield, today. Six people were injured…
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THE DRIVING CABINS of both these double-decker buses were wrecked when the vehicles collided head-on in The Boulcvarde…
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THE DRIVING CABINS of both these double-decker buses were wrecked when the vehicles collided head-on in The Boulevarde,…
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THE DRIVING CABINS of both these double-decker buses were wrecked when the vehicles collided head-on in The Boulevarde…
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Six persons were injured--five taken to Western Suburbs Hospital--when two double-decker buses collided in The…
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Six persons were injured--five taken to Western Suburbs Hospital--when two double-decker buses collided in The…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A nine-year-old boy was drowned at Bulahdelah today when he waded into a dam to test its…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--Knocked town by a motor cycle in Katoomba St. today, Mrs. Veronica Kimber (50), Cascade St., Katoomba,…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--Knocked down by a motor cycle in Katoomba St. today, Mrs. Veronica Kimber (50), Cascade St.. Katoomba…
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Ray Cox, 30, of Parramatta Road, Ashfield, was drowned when the 35-foot launch Moyna was swept against…
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NEW YORK, Monday.--Fiftyfive passengers were injured when an 11-car Long Island train hit an open switch at…
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