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Obituaries & funerals, 1953

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Two Killed by Knife Shocking Death Of Man, Wife

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--The bodies of a man and his wife, both shockingly mutilated by a long carving knife, were found in a small weatherboard…

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Two Slain by Knife Shocking Death Of Man, Wife

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.-- The bodies of a man and his wife, both shockingly mutilated by a long carving knife, were found in a small weatherboard…

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Death of Actress

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

PEGLI (Italy) (A.P.). --Signora Maria Scelzo, nee Artale, a well-known Italian stage actress, has died…

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Death of Actress

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

PEGU (Italy) (A.P.). --Signora Maria Scelzo, nee Artale, a well-known Italian stage actress, has died…

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Death of Actress

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

PEGLI (Italy) (A.P.). --Signora Maria Scelzo, nee Artale, a well-known Italian stage actress, has died…

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Death of Actress

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

PEGLI (Italy) (A.P.).--Signora- Maria Scelzo, nee Artale, a well-known Italian stage actress, -has- died…

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Death Of Mrs. C. Vanderbilt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (A.A.P.).—Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, a leader of New York society for a half…

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Death Of South Coast Identity

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 13

MRS. Esther Anderina Beale, whose death occurred in the Kiama District Hospital on January 3. was a…

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Death of Mrs. E. A. Beale

The Land · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 24

The South Coast and the Country Women's Association lost a good friend recently when Mrs…

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Death of Baby in Bed: Probe by Detectives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 8

BRISBANE, Fri. --Detectives today are investigating the death of a five-months-old baby found dead in bed by, its mother this morning…

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Death of Baby in Bed: Probe by Detectives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 8

BRISBANE, Fri.--Detectives today are investigating the death of a five-months-old baby found dead in bed by its mother this morning…

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Death of Baby in Bed: Probe by Detectives'

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 2

BRISBANE, Fri.--Defectives -today are investigating the death of a five-months-old baby found dead in bed by its mother this morning…

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Death of Baby in Bed Probe by Detectives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 8

BRISBANE, Fri. --Detectives today are investigating the death of a five-months-old baby found dead in bed by its mother this morning…

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Obituary Horace Doust

The Methodist · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 6

When, after a lifelong residence in Camden, Horace Doust passed to his reward, a link was severed with the earliest days of Methodism in…

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Lonely death of a film star's mother Santa Monica (California)

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1953 · page 52

FOR all mothers with stage ambitions for talented daughters, the lonely death of Judy Garland's mother, Mrs. Ethel Gilmore, in a factory carpark here this week carries a bitter lesson…

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Death of Mrs. F. Clarey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Mrs. Florence Clarey, wife of the Federal Labour member for Bendigo, Mr. Percy J…

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Emperor can't attend his brother's funeral

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 7

TOKIO, Monday.--Japanese newspaper editors yesterday made an unprecedented attack on "old heads" in the Imperial Palace for standing in the way of Emperor Hirohito's personal freedom. They were stirred by a…

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Miners Out Over Death of Doctor

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 1

Miners at Hebburn No. 1 pit, on the South Maitland coalfields, went on strike today as…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 12

TRIBUNE joins with workers, Australian and Chinese, in expressing profound regret at the death of Samuel Wong, aged 78…

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Death of U.s. Oil Heiress

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 8

NEW YORK. (A.P.).--Mrs. Millicent Rogers, the wealthy socialite, who was married three times,…

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