Sydney Showtime crowds stampede as ambulances rush victims
A rip roaring show at the Sydney Showground left 210 treated by ambulances, with over 50 collapsing from pressure. Crowds surged after 8 pm, one woman had her coat torn, and several fainted in crush enclosures. Nine hospitalised elderly heart patients, a man with a fractured ankle, and thousands used special buses and trams while queues and congestion mounted throughout the day.
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Andy
Showground
Suttor
Coronation
Ring
Royal Agricultural Hall
Beefy chaos as prize bull charges crowd at Sydney show
At the Sydney Show a champion Friesian bull named Segis Domo bolted while being led to the ring. It toppled a three tier stand, injuring about a dozen picnickers, mostly with cuts or bruises, as attendants struggled to restrain it. The animal escaped but was recaptured with Hodgson clinging to a rope. The bull belonged to R. W. Smith and Son of Kookerup, Victoria.
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Sydney
Manufacturers
Segis Domo
Lebeus Hodgson
Hodgson
R. W. Smith
Koocerup
Ctorla
Amazing Escape At The Monast Ring Incident
Valeria Ring fell from a whirling horse-o-plane losing her grip and crashed into a refreshment room window. She sustained a cut on the right hand head injuries and concussion. Ambulance took her and two other riders to St Vincent's Hospital. Another rider Terry Cahill broke his left arm and Frank Wedderburn concussion. Ruth Emery also fell from her horse Egypt but escaped serious injury.
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St. Vincent's Hospital
Terry Cahill
Killarney
Queensland
Frank Wedderburn
Woonona
Ruth Emery
Nowra
Egypt
General Knowledge Quiz Q&A Set
Answers cover origins of tailor made salts for women in England. Three Blind Mice run after the farmer's wife. Coffee contains caffeine. Romance languages derive from Latin. Helen Keller learned to speak without sight or hearing. Somerset wrote Of Human Bondage. Goldilocks ate the Little Bear’s porridge broke his chair and slept in his bed. Killing the fatted calf means feasting to celebrate reconciliation. A maverick is an unbranded animal, especially a motherless calf. An antidote is administered to counteract the effect of poison.
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England
Helen Keller
Somerset
Composite Dairy Cow Abstract of a national dairy image
Reporter John C. Davis imagines twenty five million dairy cows merged into one giant animal. It would stand with a forefoot on Florida and the other on Mexico and drink the Gulf of Mexico. Ohio would be flowing in milk and Canadian flies would be brushed aside by its tail.
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U.S
John C. Davis
Peninsula
Florida
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Ohio
Fungi Cut Causes Sudden Color Changes in Flesh
A described observation notes that slicing certain fungi causes immediate color changes in tissue. One species turns vivid blue as flesh is cut, another becomes livid green, while others shift to brown.
Chaplin Considers Retirement After Selling US Interests
Charlie Chaplin told close friends he plans to retire if he can sell all his American interests including home and studio. He may leave the United States to spend his life in Cannes or Mexico, reflecting on mixed memories of his years in America since World War I.
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Charlie Chaplin
America
Chaplin
U.S
Cannes
France
Mexico
Clark Gable
Ann Sheridan
Palm Springs
Gable
Ann
Clark
Steve Hannaan
Barkleys
Broadway
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Astaire
Rogers
Fred
Klelgs
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