First Sunday Cinema Show in Sydney Thousands Turned Away
Several thousand servicemen and their friends were unable to gain admittance last night to the first Sunday cinema show given…
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338 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 17
Bowling Club’s Carnival
Entries close at 6 p.m. to-morrow (Wednesday) with the secretary, Mr. H. S. Dimmock, of 65 Abbott-street, for the West…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Main Creek Novelty Carnival Dance
A most successful and happy night was spent at the Main Creek Hall on Saturday week, when a novelty carnival and fancy dress dance was staged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peeps Into the Past 50 Years Ago (From Issues of the "Argus" Dated May 11 and 14, 1892) Fair Sex in Sensational Crash
An accident, attended with rather sensational and dangerous circumstances, occurred in George Street. A buggy in which the Misses Ball were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Comforts Fund Bowls Carnival
The Comforts Fund bowling, carnival held on the West Maitland Park greens resulted in the sum of £16/5/10 being Tailed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Gala Carnival
Attention is drawn to the announcement in this issue of the Gala Carnival, Rodeo and Sports to be held at Maitland on Saturday next. A good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wirth's the Greatest Show on Earth
Wirth Bros.' Circus comes to Dungog to-night (Tuesday) for one night only by two special trains with a programme that surpasses anything that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Gallops in Sydney Hawklet and Probably Show Dash
SYDNEY Tuesday—After being closed for several weeks, the Randwick straight was available for gallops this morning. Hawklet and Probably showed dash by covering three furlongs m 37¼ on the outside of the A grass track…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Deserter Gaoled for Stealing Claims He Did Not Get "A Fair Go"
Charles Oliver Cuthel, 20, a deserter, from the Army, was sentenced at Paddington to six months gaol on two charges of stealing, sentences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Comforts Fund Appeal Rodeo And Sports Carnival
The rodeo and sports, to be held on the Maitland Sports Ground, in aid of the Comforts Fund, promises to be the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain’s New Army of the Air King Witnesses Exhibition of Skill (Australian Associated Press)
LONDON May 22.— Britain has a new army of the sir, which is an [?]egral part of the army. The new formation, states the [?] war correspondent, is equipped with its own gliders and R.A.F. squadrons of the the R.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kurri Bowls Patriotic Carnival
Members of Kurri Kurri Bowling Club held a patriotic carnival on Saturday, in which bowlers from district and Newcastle clubs attended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muswellbrook and District Patriotic Fund. Monthly Meeting. Afternoon Carnival to Be Held on Saturday, 4th. July—£100 for Lord Mayor's Fund—mr. L. Cheatle's Handsome Donation—assistance Granted to Recreation Hut and Soldiers' Club
At the monthly meeting of the Muswellbrook and District Patriotic Fund, held in the Council Chambers last night, it it was decided to hold another carnival at the Town Hall Reserve on Saturday afternoon, 4th July; that another £100 be forwarded to the Lord Mayor's Fund, while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Airmen Show No Mercy Cowardly Attacks
LONDON May 27.—With his left leg in plaster, Sergeant Pilot Cedric Alfred White, of Bunbury, who narrowly escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Washing Canaries for Exhibition
I mentioned in one of my previous article that our district was again to become a canary centre To[?] have some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Betting at Charity Carnival
NEWCASTLE Monday.—In the police court to-day Mathew Kilmartin (52), carnival showman, and Albert Brogden (29), clerk,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Patriotic Carnival
The sum of £21 was raised by members of the Kurri Kurri Golf Club who conducted a patriotic carnival in aid of the Kurri Red…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carnival by Proxy
Now that New Orleans has called off its famed Mardi Gras carnival this year on account of the war, Hollywood is stepping up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Doll and Toy Show at East Maitland
A most successful doll and toy show arranged by the East Maitland Infants’ Mothers’ Club, was held at the school. Many mothers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Successful Masquerade Carnival
The Stanford Merthyr School of Arts was tastefully decorated by the committee with the red, white and blue streamers on Friday night, when…
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