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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1856

5 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

A Few Fair and Unfair Things Against the Fair Sex

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1856 · page 7

THE men who flatter women do, not know them sufficiently, and the men who duty abuse them do not know them at all. Rominees generally end with a marriage. And many young girls,…

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Baby Show at Withernsea

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1856 · page 3

ON Monday, a baby show took place at Withernsea. Sorry are we to record the fact, that it was the second held in England, the first having been at Boston,…

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Miscellaneous. Merry Stories.—brighton Fair

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1856 · page 6

I MUST confess a vagabond inclinaton for the vulgar pleasures of a fair. The mingled sounds of the mimic penny-trumpe, the rattle, and the toy-drum, the grinding of the…

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Miscellaneous. a Romance of the Paris Exhibition

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1856 · page 6

THE day on which the Queen of England visited the exposition for the second time, a considerable number of ladies were by special favour, seated upon the divans which surround…

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Show of Entire Horses

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1856 · page 4

Besides several Colonial ones, two imported ones were shown, one Alman, a Clydesdale, imported by Mr. H. Wallace, and Sovereign, a Suffolk, belonging to Mr. Thomas Steward…

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