Rich woman recluse killed in gas accident
A WEALTHY woman factory owner, who was accidentally gassed this week, lived as a recluse in her beautifully furnished Marrickville home…
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Man Drowned Near Rocks
A man who was washed off the rocks at Point Jalong on Saturday swam to within five yards of the rocks and disappeared after…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A man who was seriously injured in an explosion to-day swam 22 yards across the Brisbane…
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BRISBANE, Sunday. -- After an explosion had shattered his right hand and injured his chest, a…
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COONABARABRAN, Monday.-- Knocked down by a car in Coonabarabran last night, William Harold Lindsay, 42,…
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An explosion in a banana-ripening chamber in Haymarket yesterday hurled a Chinese about 12 feet against a wall and seriously injured him…
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Firemen late yesterday afternoon rescued an injured Chinese, found among the wreckage after…
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Four footballers were injured in district football matches during the weekend…
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The Aberdeen and Commonwealth steamer Esperance Bay, which left Southampton on July 28 for Australian ports, collided…
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The "New Look" in women's clothes has started a controversy among road safety students…
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When brake van and truck attached to a train left the rails at Portland early this morning the van overturned…
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PERTH, Friday.--A man who fell from the first floor window in the Kalgoorlie Hotel nine years…
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Detectives are satisfied-that William Henry Wort, 49, who died from a bullet wound in the head, near Picton,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →St. George's Great Win Beat Canterbury-bankstown in a Tense Nerve-racking Game. More Players Injured Impressive Displays by New Men: McKenzie, Briggs Wilson and Harmey. Prospects Brighten for Semi-finals
St. George first grade Rugby League team gave one of its greatest displays to defeat the determined Canterbury-Bankstown side by 11 points to eight at Belmore Oval, last Saturday. The stirring football, final ten minutes particularly being nerve-racking,…
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NEWCASTLE, Sat.--Trying to stop a collision at Newcastle station tonight, a railway porter was critically injured…
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SYDNEY'S round-the-world ketch Kathleen made a 1000-mile dash from Panama to Galapagos Islands when a member of her crew suffered sulfa poisoning…
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KATOOMBA, Monday.--Frank Hawson, Britton-street, Leura, was admitted to Katoomba Hospital with…
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KATOOMBA, Monday-- Frank Howson, Britton St., Leura, driver of a small sedan car, was seriously injured at…
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A YOUTH who was killed last night when he fell from a train at Rhodes was identified today as John Fuller (19)…
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LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.). -- Eight people were drowned when a trawler capsized and sank off the French coast in a gale that lashed southern England and the…
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