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Shows & fairs, 1911

526 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 27

Show Week

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 4

Next week will be the show carnival week, and already the town is beginning to fill with visitors to our annual festival. The weather at present is…

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The Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 2

The state of the weather is a big factor towards success or failure in any outdoor function, and the committee of the Northern Agricultural Association have had…

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Paling's Show Exhibit

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 4

Messrs W. H. Paling and Co., Ltd., of Newcastle, will, as usual have a first class display of musical instruments in the pavilion during the Singleton Show…

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Singleton Show and Sports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 4

Singleton Show mid sports will be held on the local show grounds on Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday next, when special trans will be run from all stations to Singleton. A…

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Picture Show Tragedy. Twenty-five Lives Lost. Pittsburg, August 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 3

An expresion occurred at the moving picture now at Canonsburg, 18 miles from here. An slarm of fire that followed stated a panic, during which a large number of women and…

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Bakers' Exhibition. Australian Advertisement London, Sept. 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 3

Sir George Hold formally opened the Bakers Exhibition, at which New South Wales, Wstern Australia, and South Australia have attractive displays, and he…

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The Show

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 2

The 43rd annual show of the Northern Agricultural Association will open tomorrow, and, judging from present indications, it only requires fine weather to…

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Singleton Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

The annual show at Singleton under the auspices of the Northern Agricultural Association, will be opened to-morrow, and continued on Thursday and Friday. Special and cheap…

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Holiday for Singleton Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 4

The second day of Singleton's annual show has in former years been observed as a public holiday in Maitland, and it was the custom for larges numbers to annually visit the…

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The Sydney Motor Show and Gymkhana

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 4

The motor show and gymkhana, advertised elsewhere in this issue, promises to be both an attractive and a successful event. Run under the auspices of the Automobile…

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The Singleton Show Opened in Splendid Conditions. Singlton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 4

To-day the forty-third exhibition of the Northern Agricultural and Horticultural Association was opened in the most auspicious circumstances, none the less pleasant…

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Paling's Show Exhibit

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 2

Messrs W.H. Puling and Co.'s show exhibit in the pavilion is among the chief attractions in the general display. The stand of this well-known firm…

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Picture Show Tragedy. New York, Sept. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

After seeing a father shoot his daughter at a moving picture show, a resident of the Italian quarter, named Richetti, went home and killed his own daughter, and then…

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The Singleton Show Further Success Achieved. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 4

On the eve of the forty-third show of the Northern Agricultural Association people who were prominent in the past, and had their days of brightness and buoyancy then,…

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Singleton Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 2

Dungog was well represented at the Singleton show, and on Thursday, the excursion train was crowded. The show is said to have proved one…

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The Singleton Show. Successful Right Through

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 7

When some enterprising ink-spiller feels it incumbent upon himself to indite the history of the Northern Agricultural Association— and who could have done it better…

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The Show a Successful Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 2

Thursday, the second day of the Northern Agricultural Association's annual earnival, opened dull and cloudy. People who were astir early viewed the…

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Kurri Church Op England. Japanese Fair

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 8

A Japanese Fair, inaugurated by the Women's Guild of the Church of England, was opened in the Mission Hall on Thursday evening by Mrs. Pierce, of West Maitland, in the…

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The Show. Sports Day

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 4

The annual carnival of the Northern. Agricultural Association was concluced yesterday in fine and warm weather. There was a large attendance, the crows…

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