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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 115

Golfer Ben Hogan Hurt In Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 11

EL PASO (Texas), Thursday. --World famous golfer Ben Hogan was seriously hurt yesterday when his brand-new Cadillac car crashed into a bus…

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Youth Injured Seeking Aid For Hurt Uncle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—Frank Curtis, 42, timber getter, had both his legs fractured when he was…

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Star's injured kness

The Sun · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 20

Picture, taken after she had been medically examined at her city hotel today, shows abrasions on Fanny Blankers- Koen's knees. She suffered the injury in a race fall in Perth, last Saturday. Color of the abrasions has been…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one of the world's greatest living pianists, may never play again. LAST year she slipped and…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 12

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one of the world's greatest living pianists, may never play again. LAST year she slipped and…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one of the world's greatest living pianists, may never play again. LAST year she slipped and…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 12

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 12

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one of the world s greatest living pianists, may never play again. LAST year she slipped and…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one or the world's greatest living pianists, may never play again. LAST year she slipped and…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 12

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one of the world's greatest living pianists, may never play again. LAST year she slipped and…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 12

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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Kitchen Accident May End Pianist's Career

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Harriet Cohen, one of the world's greatest living pianists, may never play again. Last year she slipped and…

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98,000 Die in U.s. Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 12

CHICAGO, Friday. -- During the past year 98,000 persons were killed in road accidents in the United States, and one in…

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Leg Broken in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 5

A motor cyclist, John Thomas Atkinson, 23, of Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, broke his right leg in a collision in Wentworth…

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Police hurt badly in collision

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 3

Three detectives, whose CIB car was in a collision at Matraville last night with an oil waggon, each…

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Two Injured At Newcastle

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-- Jockey N. Smith (Chamars) and W. Clement (Laughing Cavalier) had pasty falls…

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