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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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Corpse that spoke. Amusing Scene at a Liverpool Theatre

The Picton Post · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 2

Amusing details of a visit of protest to the Muncaster Theatre, Bootle, near Liverpool, were narrated in the Liverpool County Court on 14th October…

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Dance at Bowral

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 6

Messrs. P. and G. Davenport entertained their friends at a dance in the Bowral School of Arts on New Year's Eve, the function being voted exceptionally…

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Art in the Kitchen. the Cookery Exhibition. Pictures in Sugar

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 5

Licut.-Colonel Newnham-Davis writes in the London "Daily Mail," of 6th November:- There are many things interesting and…

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Bowral Town Orchestra

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the above committee was held on Tuesday evening, when there wan a good atta riance. The hon, treasurer's report showed a [?]r[?]dit balance of £6 15s, and accounts amounting to…

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Concert, etc

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 2

We would ask out readers to make a [?] of the Grand Concert and Dramatic Entertainment to be held in the Bowral School of A[?] on Saturday, 25th January, the…

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The Picnic Race Ball

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 2

The annual picnic race ball, held in the Moss Vale hall on Friday night was declared by many who were present to have been the most successful for several years…

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Ministering Children's League Ball

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 4

With the thermometer approaching 90 degrees in the shade, and following in the wake of an exceptionally hot day (for Bowrah, it is small wonder that the attendance at the annual ball in aid of the…

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Bowral Town Orchestra

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 4

The committee met on Tuesday evening. Present: Messrs. Innes Noad (chair), Davis, Fraser, Stokes, Holmes, and Bellingham (hon. sec.)…

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Oddfellows' Dance

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 5

The annual dance in connection with the Royal Lighthouse Lodge, Manchester Unity Oddfellows, Bowral, took place in the Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday night, and proved…

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Theatre Hats of the Season. a Frenchman's Relections

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 7

Those are the reflections of a Frenchman concerning the theatre hat of this season of cart-wheel hats. They appear over the…

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Moss Vale Town Band

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 5

A special meeting of the committee and members of the Moss Vale Town Band (convened by the Mayor, Dr. Leighton-Jones, who presided), was held at the band-room…

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An Expensive Ball. Song Birds' Music. Guests Catch Goldfinch

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 4

The dazzling ball given in Philadelphia, U.S., some time ago, of which accounts have been published, given in honor of the social debut of Miss Mary Astor Paul, which…

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School Concert at Burrawang

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 22 February 1908 · page 4

Our public school concert, originally produced on 18th December (a wet-night), was by general request repeated on Saturday night last. The ball was packed with an…

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Theatre Hats of the Season. a Frenchman's Relections

The Picton Post · Wednesday 26 February 1908 · page 6

These are the reflections of a Frenchman concerning the theatre hat of this season of carl-wheel hats. They appear over the…

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Chapter X. a Pursuit and Some Pictures

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 2

Yet it was a somewhat difficult matter to snub Walter Hunt, because he bore it with such unfailing good humour. Even Patricia admitted that…

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Two Families Massacred. Midnight Death Struggle. a Band of Robbers

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 6

From Rostoff-on-Don the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" of 17th December wrote on 8th December:- Two families were practically…

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Mannequins Ball. a Fascinating Cinderella. Asked for 300 Dances

The Picton Post · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 2

Three hundred handsome young women whose daily lot is to work hard appeared in the most sumptuous robes that the dressmaker's…

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Mannequins' Ball. a Fascinating Cinderella. Asked FOIl 300 DANCES

The Picton Post · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 3

Three hundred handsome young women whoso daily lot is to work hard appeared in the most sumptuous robos that the dressmaker's…

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[?] Butterfly Ball. Millionaire's Freak. Costs £25,000

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 28 March 1908 · page 7

All Philadelphia to-day (wrote the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail" on 27th December) is discussing a sumptuous banquet and ball given last…

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Lance's Animated Pictures

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 5

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings last Lance's Animated Picture Co. gave two really fine entertainments in the Bowral School of Arts to good audiences,…

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