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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 115

Cigarette causes car accident

The Sun · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 8

Smoking a cigarette while driving a car late at night resulted in a £10 fine for the smoker at Kogarah Court…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.-- The Dowager Countess of Stradbroke, an octogenarian; fell at her home in Suffolk last night…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.--The Dowager Countess of Stradbroke, an octogenarian, fell at her home in Suffolk last night…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 7

LONDON, Friday.-- The Dowager Countess of Stradbroke, an octogenarian, fell at her home in Suffolk last night…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.-- The Dowager Countess of Strad- broke, an octogenarian, fell at her home in Suffolk last night…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 7

LONDON, Friday.-- The Dowager Countess of Stradbroke, an octogenarian, fell at her home in Suffolk last night…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.-- The Dowager Countess of Stradbroke, an octogenarian, fell at her home in Suffolk lost night…

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Countess' Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.-- The Dowager Countess of Stradbroke, an octogenarian, fell at her home in Suffolk last night…

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Child drowned

The Sun · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.-- Leonard J. Hastie, 3, of Kuttabul, near Mackay, was drowned in 3ft of water today when…

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Girl saved from blood drowning

The World's News · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 9

A HEART operation which saved a girl from drowning in her own blood has been quoted to the New England Heart Association as one of the most…

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Man Dies After 'Cycle Collision

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 2

RONALD JOHN BUCKINGHAM (22), 64 Francis St., City was fatally injured last night . when his motor-cycle…

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Chinese Found Injured

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 3

Pong Cha Ching, 53, of Bayswater Road, King's Cross, was taken to Sydney Hospital last night with concussion and a…

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Chinese injured in club

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 5

A Chinese who was injured at a Chinese club in the Haymarket last night said an…

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Movie News And Gossip Drowning Was Only in Fun

Truth · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 40

LONDON, Saturday.—Kathleen Byron tried to drown Margaret Lockwood. Nothing personal Just a scene for…

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No first aid at ground for injured footballers

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 25

Two Rugby Union players had collarbones broken in the Eastern Suburbs-Gordon trial game at Woollahra Oval yesterday but no ambulance men were…

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One Dead in Collision Newcastle Road Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 3

MAITLAND, Sunday.—A young woman was killed and her brother and another young man injured in a motor…

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Woman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 3

A woman motor-cyclist, Nancy Ellen Bell Campbell, 24, married, of Collingwood Street, Drummoyne, received serious…

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Woman Cyclist Is Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 2

A YOUNG married woman was seriously injured last night when the motor cycle she was riding skidded and…

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Woman Cyclist Is Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 2

A YOUNG married woman was seriously injured last night when the motor cycle she was riding skidded and…

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Woman Cyclist Is Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 2

A YOUNG married woman was seriously injured last night when the motor cycle she was riding skidded and…

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