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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 115

Two Injured in Car Crash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 17

MR. ABE SAFFRON, proprietor of the Roosevelt Restaurant, Potts Point, was knocked unconscious last night…

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Two Injured in Car Crash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 17

MR. ABE SAFFRON, proprietor of the Roosevelt Restaurant, Potts Point, was knocked unconscious last night,…

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Ship's Cook Injured; Charge of Assault

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 4

FOLLOWING an attack on the chief cook of the British freighter Moraybank at Woolwich yesterday, a seaman…

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Horse Cause of Smash; Six Injured

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 12

WYONG, Wednesday.-- A horse was responsible for a bad road smash on the Pacific Highway eight…

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Ship's Cook Injured Charge of Assault

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 4

FOLLOWING an attack on the chief cook of the British freighter Moraybank at Woolwich yesterday, a seaman…

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Ship's Cook Injured; Charge of Assault

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 8

FOLLOWING an attack on the chief cook of the British freighter Moraybank at Woolwich yesterday, a seaman…

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Horse Cause of Smash; Six Injured

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 12

WYONG, Wednesday.-- A horse was responsible for a bad road smash on the Pacific Highway eight…

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Horse Cause of Smash; Six Injured

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 12

WYONG, Wednesday.-- A horse was responsible for a bad road smash on the Pacific Highway eight…

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Mother Daughter Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 3

MRS. THELMA RICHMOND (31), Bix Rd., Dee Why, suffered a lacerated throat, general abrasions and shock…

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Mother Daughter Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 3

MRS. THELMA RICHMOND (31), Bix Rd., Dee Why, suffered a lacerated throat, general abrasions and shock…

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Mother Daughter Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 3

MRS. THELMA RICHMOND (31), Bix Rd., Dee Why, suffered a lacerated throat, general abrasions and shock…

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Pilot ship damaged in Harbor collision

The Sun · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 3

The pilot steamer Captain Cook and British freighter Mangold were in collision off…

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Family Injured in Night Smash

The Sun · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 5

Mrs. Thelma Richmond, 31, and her four-year-old daughter Lynn, of Bix Road, Dee Why, received cuts to the head…

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Boy (2) Drowned

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 4

WINGHAM, Friday. -- The '' body of a two-years-old boy, William Somerset Andrews, was discovered in a…

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Boy (2) Drowned

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 4

WINGHAM, Friday. -- The body of a two-years-old boy, William Somerset Andrews, was discovered in a…

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Boy (2) Drowned

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 4

WINGHAM, Friday. -- The body of a two-years-old boy, William Somerset Andrews, was discovered in a…

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Boy drowned in swamp

The Sun · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 3

WINGHAM, Friday. -- A two-year-old boy, William Somerset Andrews, was drowned in a swamp near…

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Pilot Ship Damaged Collision Near The Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 4

The pilot steamer Captain Cook was slightly damaged early yesterday morning in a collision off Sydney Heads with…

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Big Fire in Brisbane Three Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.— More than £40,000 damage was caused when a spectacular fire to-night burnt out a…

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Boy Killed In Car Smash; Mother Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

WYONG, Thursday.— A 7-year-old boy was killed and his mother injured in a motor smash…

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