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Railways, roads & transport, 1947

6,390 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 250

Girl Charged with Two Deaths Father And Boy Friend Victims Dual Tragedy in Motor Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 6

ST. LOUIS (Missouri), Monday. -- Mary Reardon (14), who yesterday shot dead her father while he was driving a car, will now be charged with manslaughter following the death…

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Girl Charged with Two Deaths Father And Boy Friend Victims Dual Tragedy in Motor Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 6

ST. LOUIS (Missouri), Monday. -- Mary Reardon (14), who yesterday shot dead her father while he was driving a car, will now be charged with manslaughter following the death…

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Girl Charged with Two Deaths Father And Boy Friend Victims Dual Tragedy in Motor Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 6

ST. LOUIS (Missouri), Monday. -- Mary Reardon (14), who yesterday shot dead he father while he was driving a car, will now be charged with manslaughter following the death…

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Cirl Charged with Two Deaths Father And Boy Friend Victims Dual Tragedy in Motor Car

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 6

ST. LOUIS (Missouri), Monday. -- Mary Reardon (14), who yesterday shot dead her father while he was driving a car, will now be charged with manslaughter following the death…

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Three Passengers Stashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Tuesday.--Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers, one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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Three Passengers Slashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona),Tuesday.--Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers, one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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Three Passengers Slashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Tuesday.--Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers, one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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Three Passengers Slashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Tuesday.--Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers, one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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Three Passengers Slashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Tuesday.-Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers, one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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Three Passengers Slashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Tuesday.--Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers. one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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Three Passengers Stashed By Man Who Ran Amok On Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Tuesday.--Running berserk with a knife in the lounge car of a Southern Pacific westbound train, a crazed Filipino slashed three passengers, one seriously. AMONG the passengers attacked…

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What The Others Don’t Print Jim Crow on Trams

Tribune · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY hasn’t enough Aborigines to fill Jim Crow sections of the rear of trams and buses. But the Jim Crow spirit, which segregates Negro travellers in America’s Deep South, crept into the Working Orders of the NSW Department of Road Transport…

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Railway Unions' Case for Week-end Increase

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Divergent claims by three railway unions on Saturday and Sunday pay and overtime were placed before the Full Arbitration Court today. Mr. W. P. Evans, advocate for…

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Human Shuttlecock Between Two Trams

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

Trapped between two trams moving in opposite directions, George Allen, 35, publisher, of Mashman avenue, Kingsford, had a narrow escape from death today…

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Tram Man Gave Back 1d Court Told

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

A tram conductor who it was slated, had given back 1d of 2d tendered as a fare in a City tram, was fined £1…

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Rolling Motor Tyre Injures Woman

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 14

Mrs. Eleanor Boag, 55, of Paul Street, Auburn, suffered a probable fracture of the left ankle yesterday when a motor tyre rolled from a passing truck…

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Mutilated Body Found on Railway Tracks

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

THE mutilated body of gatekeeper Reuben Edward Ackland, Church St., Dubbo, was found on the railway tracks near the level crossing…

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Mutilated Body Found on Railway Tracks

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

THE mutilated body of gatekeeper Reuben Edward Ackland, Church Dubbo, was found on the railway tracks near the level crossing…

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Own Train For Surfers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 5

The N.S.W. Surf Association has chartered a special train to take 600 Sydney surfers and their…

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New Road to Relieve King's Cross Strain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 4

A new traffic artery to the Eastern Suburbs would be provided as a result of a road widening scheme just begun by the City Council, the Lord Mayor (Aid. R.J. Bartley) said today…

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