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Shows & fairs, 1873

8 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

How Fair ones Manage Fairs

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 February 1873 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT of the Louisville Democrat gives a bit of his experience as follows : —My last letter was dated at Chicago. I don’t expect to date another from that…

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The Intercolonial Exhibition. the Opening Day

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 2

THIS Exhibition, the fruit of long and anxious thought and labor on the part of the Agricultural Society of the colony was yesterday opened to the public ; and although there were some…

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Exhibition Sales

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 May 1873 · page 3

THE cattle sales on the Exhibition Ground yesterday were well attended, and most of the principal stock-breeders were present. The bidding was spirited, and the prices taken right through…

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John Bluff at the Exhibition

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 May 1873 · page 2

I’M John Bluff, farmer, way down Richmond River. Me and the old woman and the gals has come up to see this here Exhibition as we heerd talk of so much down our way. ‘Taint…

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The Carnival at Rome—Scenes in Streets

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 4

THE Times correspondent at Rome speaks of the Carnival as a wearisome Saturnalia, which there lasts for the unconscionably long period of eleven days. From the 15th to…

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Printing Machinery at the London Exhibition

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 3

IN an article on the machinery at present being exhibited in London at the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, the London Times thus alludes to the composing and distributing machines…

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The Story-Teller Little Peep-Show

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 August 1873 · page 4

THERE was a peep-show in the street, with the usual large round goggles to look through the usual pullers, and a man of the usual sort pattering away at the side about what…

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Grand Fancy Fair at the[?]bition Building, Sydney

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 December 1873 · page 4

THE preparations for the grand fancy fair[?] which has been advertiser' for some time pas'[?] in the columns of the ‘Herald,’ are bein[?] rapidly pushed forward, as it is intended [?]…

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