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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1904

198 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 10

Band of Hope

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

THE local Band of Hope held its monthly meeting on Thursday evening last in the Methodist Church. Rev. E. Cophn Thomas presided. The…

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The Snake Dance. a Curious Indian Custom

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Hopi Indians of the Painted Desert region in America have a very curious dance, called the snake dance. An eye-witness describes it…

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Concert

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

We would remind our readers that a grand concert by the Pupils of St. Joseph's Convent School, assisted by other ladies and gentlemen, will take place in the…

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Benefit Concert

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 4

As will be perceived by advertisement, a benefit concert will be tendered to the widow of the late Mr A. J. Andrews at the Mechanics' Institute on December 3rd…

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Mona. Chapter Xxii. Mona Attends the Ball at Hazeldean

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 November 1904 · page 4

Mona found considerable excitement and confusion prevailing upon her return, for carpenters and decorators were busy about the house: flowers and plants were being…

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Celebrated Pictures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 November 1904 · page 5

Mr. John Longstaff's picture of Queen Alexandra and Mr. Sheppard's Tasmanian war memorial are on exhibition in London…

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District News. Jerry's Plains. Benefit Ball

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 4

A very successful benefit ball was held at Jerry's Plains on the 29th November, in aid of Mr Edward Barry, of Doyle's Creek, who…

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Superior Public School Concert

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 2

THE entertainment given by the pupils of the above in the interests of the school funds, took place in the local School of Arts on Thursday night,…

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Concert

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 2

A crowded house was present at the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday evening to witness the vocal aud instrumental concert and tableaux by the pupils of St…

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The Singleton Band

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

We loam that the Rix's Creek Band played at the recent benefit concert, and that there is a prospect .of the Singleton Band being broken up owing the lack of…

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Public School Concert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 7

There was a large attendance or children and parents at a Christmas breaking in connection with the Superior Public School, West Maitland, given by the boys of…

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Theatre for Children Only

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1904 · page 3

Thousands of east side boys and girls in New York are in great glee over the announcement that the Education Alliance haas organised a children's theatre expressly for…

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The Theatre in Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1904 · page 6

[?] about 9.30 or 10 o' clock leaves his home He goes not to a box-office to buy a ticket but to "O-Chaya." This is a sort of…

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Convent High School Concert. An Enjoyable Evening

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1904 · page 2

On Tuesday night, the annual concert by the pupils of the Convent High School took place in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute before a very…

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Painting Beautiful Pictures with the Voice

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 6

The vibration of the singing voice, in perfect health, through an apparatus known as the idiophone, will produce the formation of pictures of…

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Band of Hope

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 December 1904 · page 4

The usual monthly meeting of the local Bond of Hope was held in the Methodist Church, on Wednesday ovening last, when the following…

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Pictures of Christ

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 3

Who painted the first picture of Jesus Christ? Were there artists at the time He lived, and if not, where were the features by which He was represented taken from?…

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