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Blue Mountains · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1923

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New Year's Day Sports and Concerts (Continued from page I)

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 3

In the Quarter Mile, Nettup was asked to give away about 50 yards. The stask was beyond him. He sprinted to his field, but after…

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Town Music Band for Katoomba Ald. Birney's Promise

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 3

Katoomba has been talking "band" for a long time, but no music save the cadence of the speakers' voices has come of it. Ald Birney…

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Katoomba Band. No Cause for Worry

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 4

Incidenty connected with the debut of the newly formed Katoomba and Leura Brass Band on Saturday night furnish ground for deep regret. It…

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Successful Concert at Mt. Victoria

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 6

Another highly-successful evening was conducted by the management and staff of the railway refreshment rooms on Saturday, this time…

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Presbyterian Concert at Blackheath

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 6

Another of what have become to be popularly known as "Miss Boyne's Concerts," was held in the Public Hall on Thursday night. On this…

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A Gay Night Dance at Springwood Dresses and Competitions

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 5

On Easter Monday night, Messrs. Harry Williams and A. G. Jones—proprietors of the Springwood Picture Theatre, opened the dancing…

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Diggers' Night Plain and Fancy Dress Ball at Wentworth Falls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 6

The Wentworth Falls brunch of the R.S. and S.I.L., of A. held their second annual plain and fancy dress ball in the School of Arts on Easter…

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On the Ball Five Teams Competing for the Henderson Cup

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 April 1923 · page 5

The regular meeting of the League executive was held in the King's sports saloon on Wednesday evening, Mr. A. E, Marsh, the new president,…

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St. Canice's Concert

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 April 1923 · page 5

When organising an entertainment the Sisters of St., Joseph have, since their advent in Katoomba, ever sought to submit a worthy…

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Fancy Dress Ball at Mount Victoria

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 6

It is many a long day since the old public hall housed so many happy dancers as it did on Saturday night when the three R.R.R. Club…

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Classical Concert Miss Hobbs Welcomed

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 4

The ruin marred it; otherwise the attendance at the concert organised by Miss Myrtle Hobbs would have drawn a full house. Ah it was, there…

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For the Sick Students Give Concert and Help Hospital

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 6

A very successful concert, arranged by Miss A. Wiles, was given by the pupils of Stratford College, Lawson, in aid of St. Luke's Hospital…

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Successful Concert

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 June 1923 · page 3

Last Wednesday evening, a musical programme and coffee supper was held in the Salvation Army Hall, Rev. R. C. Oakley (Methodist)…

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Musical Society Going Well and Strong First Grand Concert

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 June 1923 · page 5

When, at a wall attended meeting convened by the Mayor a couple or moths ago, a Musical Society for the advancement of music in…

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Fortunes on the Wall Examine Your Pictures

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 7

Collectors of antiques do not always confine their efforts to rummaging among the musty shelves of the professional dealers. Often they…

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Grand Concert Katoomba Musical Society Makes Successful Debut

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 1

"Katoomba is to be heartily congratulated on its musical society, and the society should be proud of itself."…

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Sunday Pictures

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 July 1923 · page 8

Adversity makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows, and a reminder that extremes may meet on common ground sometimes was…

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Life and Color A Night at Medlow Hydro-majestic Ball

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 5

Ever since Mr. Mark Foy resumed control of the Hydro-Majestic, assisted by Mr. Brickett as its enterprising manager, this Mountains institution…

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Bodington Pierrots Concert at Lawson

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 8

A packed house greated the "Bodington Pierrots" at a concert given in the Lawson Literary Institute on Wednesday night last…

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The Eisteddfod Getting Under Way Big Initial Concert

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 5

In a little over two months time November 14 to 19 inclusive, excluding Sunday, 19th—will be opened the annual Katoomba eisteddfod…

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