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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Unknown Man Found Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

An unidentified man, aged abou 30, was found injured and practically unconscious in Eddy Avenue, near Central Railway Station, at 2 a.m…

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Snowstorm Smash; Twenty Injured

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 17

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--About 20 people were injured, three seriously, in a train collision at Perham, 170 miles from Minneapolis…

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Boy Injured In Cliff Fall

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 1

GOSFORD, Wednesday. -- An eight-years-old boy fell over a cliff 40 feet to the rocks below at Boat Harbor last night and…

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Boy Injured In Cliff Fall

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 1

GOSFORD, Wednesday. -- An eight-years-old boy fell over a cliff 40 feet to the rocks below at Boat Harbor last night and…

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Merrylands Man Drowned Bathing Near Palm Beach

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 2

Alexander James Grant '39'. an employee of the "Cumberland Argus," of Crossland Street. Merryalands was drowned near Palm Beach on Saturday. It…

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Accidents

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 1

In one of the worst week-ends for traffic accidents for a considerable time, five people were killed in New Smith Wales and at least 42 injured…

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In Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 2

THIS BUS was involved in a collision with a truck this morning at the corner of Cathedral and Bourke St., Woolloomooloo…

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In Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 2

THIS BUS was involved in a collision with a truck this morning at the corner of Cathedral and Bourke St., Woolloomooloo…

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Girl Saved From Drowning

The Propeller · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 1

A youth saved Kay Wilcox, aged seven years, of Ocean Street, Penshurst, from drowning in Narrabeen Lakes on the 8th instant. Alan…

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Mother Drowned Baby, Self, Coroner Finds

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 11

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday. -- The coroner (Mr. W. Musgrave), at an inquest today found that Mrs. Phyllis Jean Goodwin, 33, of Lake Illawarra South, had murdered her six-weeks-old daughter and had…

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Four Drowned in Big South African Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 24

CAPETOWN, Thursday.--Four persons were drowned when floods, the worst since 1857, swept through Pietermaritzburg, the capital of…

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Merrylands Man Drowned Bathing Near Palm Beach

The Biz · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 3

Alexander James Grant (39), an employee of the "Cumberland Argus," of Crossland Street, Merrylands, was drowned near Palm Beach on Saturday. It is…

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Four Drowned in Big South African Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 1

CAPETOWN, Thursday.--Four persons were drowned when floods, the worst since 1857, swept through Pietermaritzburg. the capital of…

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Four Drowned in Big South African Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 19

CAPETOWN, Thursday.--persons were drowned when floods, the worst since 1857, swept through Pietermaritzburg. the capital of…

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Four Drowned in Big South African Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 19

CAPETOWN, Thursday.--Four persons were drowned when floods, the worst since 1857, swept through Pietermaritzburg, the capital of…

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Man Has Spine Injured On Ship

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 2

A shipwright had his spine seriously injured today, when he was knocked to the deck of the steamship Karuah, at Phoenix…

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Women Injured in Fight for Bargains

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 3

An early morning bargain rush af Selfridge's this morning developed into a free-for-all in which two women and several boys were hurled through glass doors. Both women had to receive hospital treatment…

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Women Scream, Faint Crowd Mobs City Store Shoppers Injured by Glass

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 9

ABOUT 2000 men, women and children besieging Selfridge's store in Pitt St. this morning broke a plate glass…

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Women Scream, Faint Crowd Mobs City Store Shoppers Injured by Glass

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 9

ABOUT 2000 men, women and children besieging Selfridge's store in Pitt St. this morning broke a plate glass…

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Women Scream, Faint Crowd Mobs City Store Shoppers Injured by Glass

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 9

ABOUT 2000 men, women and children besieging Selfridge's store in Pitt St. this morning broke a plate glass…

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