Fewer Killed on Roads Holiday Figures
Twelve people were killed in road accidents in New South Wales between December 24 and January 1. In the same period a year ago…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
6,390 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250
Lucky Escape In Road Crash
Two men had a remarkable escape from serious injury last night when a truck struck the rear of their motor car while…
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Nine people were injured in road accidents in the city and suburbs yesterday. On Pacific Highway, near Gosford, a man recuperating from…
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Two men had a remarkable escape from serious injury last night when a truck struck the rear of their motor car while…
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Two men had a remarkable escape from serious injury last night when a truck struck the rear of their motor car while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Books of the Week Continued On the Road to Damascus
NIHILISM is a deep-seated phenomenon of degradation, the most conspicuous trait of contemporary life. Nihilism is…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 11, 1947 Road to Chaos
Nothing about the renewed gas strike has shocked and angered the Sydney public so much as the casual fashion in which it was called on by a small…
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THE US Army has unveiled its longterm vehicle storage project with a preview to newsmen of the process which "cans" tanks and heavy trucks…
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SUMMER, 1916, and a rusty old Cardiff tramp wallowed in the North Sea as a fussy destroyer ranged alongside…
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A record number of boats "marched past" and saluted the Commodore's flagship at the St. George Motor Boat Club's…
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A record number of boats "marched past" and saluted the Commodore's flagship at the St. George Motor Boat Club's…
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A record number of boats "marched past" and saluted the Commodore's flagship at the St. George Motor Boat Club's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →King of Gaol-breakers Makes His Last Escape The "King of Gaol-breakers," Roy Gardner, train robber, kidnapper, forger, dope pedlar and extortionist, Has made his last escape. After getting away from a dozen of the toughest American gaols, Gardner found himself imprisoned by fear, and escaped even from that most terrible prison 'by poisoning himself with cyanide. The story of his life will live on, though, a subject for study by all criminologists
ROy GARDNER was convicted or suspected of every major crime in the calendar, with the exception of murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Troop Train Reported Blown Up
BANGKOK, Saturday.—It has been reported that two French troop trains were blown up between Saigon and Mytho, in Cochin-China. the…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Anger "I don't like your Harbor-- or your Bridge or you, and I did't ask to come here!"
This young cheetah, one of a pair, is in challenging mood after his crate is landed in Sydney yesterday. He is one of a consignment of animals which has been bought for Taronga Park Zoo…
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Harold Edwards (38), Macleay St., Pott's Point, was knocked down by a motor cycle at the intersection of Pitt and Park Sts.. City, about 7.50…
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Sir,—The proposal by the police that the Motor Traffic Act should be amended will be hailed with relief by every decent motorist, and is very long…
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THE Kurrajong-Richmond train was delayed 20 minutes last night when the engine struck and killed a cow which strayed on to the line near…
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THE Kurrajong-Richmond train a was delayed 20 minutes last night when the engine struck and killed a cow which strayed on to the line near…
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THE Kurrajong-Richmond train was delayed 20 minutes last night when the engine struck and killed a cow which strayed on to the line near…
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