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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1904

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A Boarding-School Girl. Masquerading As a Youth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 13

During the past week the timely intervention of detectives brought the novel adventures of a young lady, well connected in Sydney, to an abrupt termination. She is…

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Scriptures in Schools. Further Discussion. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 3

The sectarian question was again imported into the discussion at the Educational Conference to-day. The Rev. R. Mcintyre said the question of…

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Scone Grammar School

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 4

It is notified in another column that the next term at the above school commences on Monday next, 11th instant…

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The Teacher's Responsibility

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 2

Speaking on education, the Rev. It. G. Macintyre, of Woollahra, said the ideal towards which education was aiming was that succeeding…

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Local and General News. A water bag, picked up in Mayne Street, is lying at his office awaiting an owner. School of Arts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 2

We have been requested to remind members of the local School of Arts that a special general meeting of subscribers will be held in the institute on Tuesday…

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Mercury Junior. in School Days

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 16

Still sits the school house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines are running…

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Sunday School Annual Festival Visit of the Bishop

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 April 1904 · page 4

SUNDAY last being the annual festival of All Saints Anglican Sunday School, special services for the children attending were held at All Saints'…

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School of Arts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 2

A special general meeting of the members of the Murrurundi School of Arts, called by advertisement in conformity with section 5 of the…

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Chess in Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 6
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The report through Berlin that chess is to be introduced as an optional subject in the Russian elementary schools is interesting. The same idea has been broached in this country, and has, indeed,…

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Japanese Schoolgirls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 3

One of the most wonderful products of new Japan is the schoolgirl. She shuffles gracefully to her academy, in the clogs and kimono of old Nippon, to pursue with docile facility a…

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A Brighton Mystery Schoolmistress's Experience

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 4

On Brighton Downs recently a lady was attacked by a man who, after attempting to murder her, committed suicide. The Press Association's Brighton…

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Lord Normanby's School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1904 · page 5

The present Marquis of Normanby is a clergyman of the Church of England, and he is a personage of sonic interest to Victorians because he is the son of one of…

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Infant School for South Singleton

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 2

The question of an infant school for South Singleton was again before the South Singleton Municipal Council on Tuesday night, as will be perceived from a…

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Lord Normanby's School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 12

The present Marquis of Normanby is a clergyman of the Church of England and he is a personage of some interest to Victorians because he is the son of one of…

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A School for Cabmen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1904 · page 7

There is a school in Paris where Cabmen [?]ught everything a cabman should know. [?] school was founded in 1889, and since [?] time no fewer than 5800 pupils have…

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By Teacher's Orders

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

"What on earth," said a gentleman to his son, "are you doing up there, Johnny, sitting on the horse's hack, with a pencil and paper, when"you ought to be at school?"…

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Mercury Junior. the Country School House

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 14

The little country school house—you Remember it: of course you do: Within the angle snugly set, Where two long yellow highways met…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Kurri Kurri Methodist Sunday School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 8

Anniversary services in connection with the Methodist Sunday School word held in the church last Sunday. In the morning and evening Mr. Forster, circuit missionary, officiated, and at night…

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