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Shows & fairs, 1918

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Closing of the Great Carnival. Cantata and Coronation

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 6

The Sisters of Charity, so long and so honorably associated with Mt. St. Mary's College, have a lengthy list of successful public entertainments to their credit, and when it was…

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Carnival Week at Woodford

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 2

Woodford has been practically intoxicated with the ninny amusements presented to them lately. Sports in aid of the Red Cross were an unqualified success, as also the concert on…

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Council's Claim Vindicated. Fair Annual Charge £100

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 5

It almost seems in the long ago since the "Great Gas Case" (in more ways that one) was first launched. Back in 1915, the Katoomba Council fixed a fair rental charge…

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Fair Exchange

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 6

A man who had purchased some currant buns at a bakery was distressed on starting to eat one to find it contained a fly. Returning to the bakery, he made an indignant…

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Greater Blue Mountains Peace Carnival Councils in Co-operation

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 29 November 1918 · page 5

In response to a numerously-signed petition, the Mayor convened a public meeting on Tuesday evening to consider the question of suitably celebrating Peace Day. The petitioners were…

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