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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

2,425 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 122

Iceman Injured in Road Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 5

A man's head was forced through the windscreen of his ice waggon when he collided with a sanitary cart early this…

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Woman Walked to Death in Her Sleep Drowning Off Bondi Rocks

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 2

A 46-years-old spinster, found drowned in the sees off Sondi, had been a sleep walker since she was a baby, a witness fold the City Coroner today…

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Woman Walked to Death in Her Sleep Drowning Off Bondi Rocks

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 2

A 46-years-oid spinster, found drowned in the sea off Bondi, hod been a sleep walker since she was a baby, a witness told the City Coroner today…

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Woman Walked to Death in Her Sleep Drowning Off Bondi Rocks

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 2

A 46-yecars-old spinster, found drowned in the sea off Bondi, food been a sleep walker since she was a baby, a witness told the City Coroner today…

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Roberts, Schubert injured Won't Play League Tomorrow

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 21

Two Rugby League internationals last night withdrew from their club teams for tomorrow's matches. They are: Ron Roberts (St. George) who…

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Late Sporting News Roberts (injured) Out of Rugby League Match

The St George Call · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 11

Ron Roberts, St. George's star R.L. winger, has withdrawn from the important match against Balmain at Jubilee Oval, Carlton,…

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Girl's Courage After Accident

The Sun · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 8

BRISBANE, Thursday.--A six-year-old girl, Carol Morton, whose foot was almost severed when she fell under…

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Film Accident Scene Deceives Bystanders

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 9

Bystanders ran to assist two children who were "knocked down" by a lorry in the reconstruction of an accident at Neutral Bay yesterday afternoon…

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Abo's Injured Feelings

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 14

A SECOND A.I.F. battalion was en route to Darwin in December, 1941, in some haste, following the advent of the Nips into the war. The convoy of trucks was overlanding it on the…

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Two Injured In Motor Cycle Smashes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 6

Two young men were injured when motor-cycles they were riding collided with cars in Sydney last night…

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Books of the Week Comet Theory On Bible Miracles Worlds in Collision, by Immanuel Velikovsky.— The Macmillan Company, New York

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 12

IN more devout centuries than ours, men got into trouble if they suggested that any statement in the Bible was false. In…

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Man Killed In Train Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 2

A man was killed instantly when struck by a goods train shortly after midnight at Rooty Hill last…

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Man Killed In Train Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 2

A man was killed instantly when struck by a goods train shortly after midnight at Rooty Hill last…

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Man Killed In Train Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 2

A man was killed instantly when struck by a goods train shortly after midnight at Rooty Hill last…

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Mem Killed in Train Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 2

A man was killed instantly when struck by a goods train shortly after midnight at Rooty Hill last…

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Sydney Man Drowned

Truth · Sunday 30 April 1950 · page 5

GOSFORD, Saturday.— Falling from the back of a small launch tonight, William Henry Bain (54),…

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Miss Aust. Starts Tour Man Rescued After Yacht Collision

Truth · Sunday 30 April 1950 · page 2

The owner of the famous cutter Rani and a friend both dived into the Harbor yesterday afternoon to rescue an elderly man who had been thrown from his fishing skiff after a collision with Rani off…

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Man Dead Near Line; Second Badly Injured

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 30 April 1950 · page 3

A man was found dead and another man, believed to be his nephew, was found seriously injured on the railway line about 20 miles north of Maitland yesterday…

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Migrants Die in Accidents

Truth · Sunday 30 April 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.— Three new Australians were killed in traffic accidents in Victoria today…

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University Hooker Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 23

University Rugby Union team will be without hooker Ron Chambers for some competition rounds. Chambers had his knee badly Injured playing against…

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