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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1906

203 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 11

Not a Fair Deal

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 4

Two boys who managed to be rather unruly in school so exasperated their teacher that she requested them to remain after hours and write their…

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Millthorpe Show

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 1

The Annual Millthorpe Show will be held on 25th and 26th inst. This show is known as and gained great popularity as "the ploughing matches of the…

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Cowra Show

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 5

Splendid weather prevailed for the Cowra P A & H Association on Wednesday thought the ground was very damp after the recent heavy fall of rain which…

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Hospital Fancy Fair

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 3

The last two nights of the Fair [?]e at hand. During the week cellent business has been done the gallant band of workers,…

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Show

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 4

The weather which ever has au important influence upon [?] functions was [?] Monday and Tuesday in such an [?] conditions as to cause much…

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Annual Show. Vice-regal Visit. Function Spoiled by Rain

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 2

The opening of the seventh annual Show took place on Tuesday under most unfavorable conditions. Monday opened very gloomy, and as the…

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Mcdades Living Picture Show

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 September 1906 · page 7

McDades Living Picture Show, as advertised in our columns, is pronounced by the S.M. Herald, Daily Telegraph and Evening News, as…

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Fair Play

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 6

A group of American commercial travellers were telling yarns on the subject of hospitality, when one of them took up his parable thus:…

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Flower Show

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 10

THE third annual Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition will be held next week—October 4, 5, and 6. Entries close with the Secretary, Mr. F. Yabsley, on Wednesday…

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The Girl Who Did Nothing. Fable of Fair and Unfair

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 6

"And what do you go in for, Sir John?' said Mrs Mildmay across the lunch-table. "Oh. I'll take claret, thanks!" I said…

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Temora Show

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 2

The Temora Show on Tuesday and Wednesday was a great success as regards attendance and quantity and quality of exhibits. There were fully…

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The Late Show

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 4

The marked progress in the town and district during [?]…

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Canowindra P., A. and H. Association. First Committee Meeting

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

A meeting of the above was hold in the School of Arts Hall on Saturday afternoon last. There were present— Messrs W Bassett, F E Craven, T Finn…

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Not a Fair Deal

Western Champion · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 18

Two boys who managed to be rather unruly in school so exasperated their teacher that she requested them to remain after hours and write their…

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The Late Show

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 4

In the exhibit of agricultural machinery at the late Show tho principal manufacturers in the Commonwealth were represented as well as the International Harvester…

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Sudden Ending to a Show

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 October 1906 · page 1

The Melbourne correspondent of the Herald reports that the Benalla show, which opened on Tuesday, was brought to a dramatic conclusion in quite an…

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Martini's Buckjumping Show

Western Champion · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 12

This well-known and popular Australian show, after a sensational season in Sydney of 22 weeks, will open in Parkes in Mr Mazoudier's paddock,…

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Our Open Column. Re Liability of Show Committee. (To the Editor)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 2

SIR,—I would like to place before you a case touching the above and to ask you, in common justice, though the damage is not great, the Show Committee…

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Art Treasures Burnt. Fire at Milan Exhibition

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 3

The Building of Decorative Art at the Milan Exhibition was destroyed by fire on 3rd August, in consequence of a defect in the electric light wiring…

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Martin[?]'s Buckjumping Show

Western Champion · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 15

On Saturday evening the above opened in Parkes for a short season For those who interested in feats of horsemanship, the show is an…

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