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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1892

118 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 6

World’s Fair Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1892 · page 12

The “Jibboom Club,” of New Londor, Conn., is planning to man a small schooner, such as Connecticut has employed for many years in the West India trade, run it to the…

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Cobram Show Notes

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 October 1892 · page 2

Now that the show with all its [?] its pleasantries and its surprises has been numbered with the post, there succeeds -the time for congratulation and reflection. The…

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The Namurkah Show

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 October 1892 · page 2

The twelfth annual Show in connection with the Numurkah Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held on Tuesday and Wednesday. On both…

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The Namurkah Show

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 3

The Namurkah Show this year was signalized by the delightful weather which prevailed on both days, although towards Tuesday evening it looked as…

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Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 2

The annual meeting of the members of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday last. Mr J. J. Armstrong, the retiring President, occupied the…

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Sporting. the Racing Carnival

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 26 October 1892 · page 2

ON every side, on every hand, for menthe past has rung a jeremaid, a mournful cry that never since the settlement of Australia were times no bad in Victoria's…

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Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 October 1892 · page 18

The adjourned meeting of committee was held on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. G. A. Thompson occupied the chair, the other members present being Messrs. Lankester, J. H…

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The Chicago Exhibition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 October 1892 · page 12

Delightfully located near the lake shore, south of the main lagoon and of the area reserved for the foreign nations and the several States, and East of the Women’s Building and…

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World’s Fair Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 October 1892 · page 12

A New Jer[?]y pottery firm is making a large number of specimens of fine work for exhibition at the Fair. One piece already completed is an elegant vase, 40in. high and 52in. in…

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The Flower Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 October 1892 · page 3

One of the most attractive little exhibitions ever seen in Deniliquin was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening last and was largely patronised by the public, notwithstanding the wet and…

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All in a Garden Fair

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 1

Among some notes, with the author's name misplaced, it the following relative to the word garden, and perhaps the origin of the common term 'yard,' sometimes used for…

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Rutherglen Agricultural Society

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 2

A committee meeting of the above was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening. there being present Messrs L. E. Rosenbloom (chair) Drenen, [?]…

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The Chicago Exhibition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1892 · page 12

The Electrical Building, the seat of perhaps the most novel and brilliant exhibit in the whole Exposition, is 345ft. wide and 700ft. long, the major axis running north and south,…

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The Chicago Exhibition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1892 · page 12

The Dairy Building, by reason of the exceptionally novel and interesting exhibits it will contain, is quite sure to be regarded with great favor by World’s Fair visitors in general,…

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Cake and Apron Fair

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1892 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening last an entertainment of a novel character, in the shape of a Cake and Apron Fair, was opened in the School of Arts, Corowa, to a very fair attendance…

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World’s Fair Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1892 · page 12

Professor Chas. Walcott, of the United States Geological Survey, intends to have at the World’s Fair an exhibit which will illustrate a section of the earth’s crust by…

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A Famous Fair Fails

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 November 1892 · page 1

THE famous Russian Fair at Nijni Novgorod, which is usually held at this time of the year, has come to grief owing to the cholera; many of the merchants from the East not…

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Public Meeting. Proposed Pastoral and Agricultural Society

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 December 1892 · page 2

On Friday afternoon, in response to a notice issued by the Mayor, a public meeting was held in the Council Chambers for the purpose of, considering the advisability of…

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Albury and Border Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1892 · page 20

A meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. G. A. Thompson occupied the chair, the other members present being Messrs. Billson, J. H. Turner, A…

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