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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1900

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Christmas Fair

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

The Christmas Fair and Sale of Gifts promoted by the Bible Christian Church was opened on the Friday evening preceding Christmas but the weather was terribly…

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Only Fair

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 14

A childlike faith in the arithmetic confounds all the logic of the schools. This was tho experience of a life-insurance agent in Canton who wrote a policy on the life of…

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The Berrigan Show

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 2

WITH this issue we publish the prize schedule for the Berrigan Agricultural and Horticultural Society’s Annual Show, which is to take place…

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The Royal Agricultural Society's Easter Show. New Features, New Prizes, and Added Money

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 13

Being the federal year the Royal is going to have a federal show at Easter that will wipe out the memory of the big carnival of last year. The show is to be open from the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 38

A meeting of the committee of the above society was held at the Globe Hotel Wednesday morning. Mr. G. A. Thompson, presidents in the chair. The following wore also…

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Albury and Border P., A. and H. Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 37

The annual meeting of the members of the above society was held at the Globe Hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Present - Mensrs. G. Arthur Thompson (president), Roxburgh, Riley…

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Hands Show Age

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 2

‘Not only do hands indicate character,’ said a palmist to the writer, ‘they also afford the most trustworthy evidence of age. ‘By Seeing only the hands of a person I…

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The Secretary of Toe P. A. and H. Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 33

During the proceedings of the Smoke Social, the health of the secretary of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society, Mr. G. Mackay was enthusiastically drunk, on the…

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Hands Show Age

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2

'Not only do hands indicate character,'said a palmist to the writer, 'they also afford the most trustworthy evidence of age. 'By seeing only the hands of a person I…

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A Fair Exchange

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 February 1900 · page 5

Robbie had longed long and earnestly for a baby brother and a pair of white rabbits. The answer to both wishes came on the same morning ; but it was…

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Berrigan Show

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 3

That the date of the Berrigan Agricultural and Horticultural Society annual Show is rapidly approaching is proved in more ways then…

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The Patriotic Fund and the Show

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 3

At the meeting of the committee of the local Agricultural Society on Monday night the following very laudable suggestion on the part, of Mr J. A. T. Rochfort, Stock…

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Show Week. Numerous Attractions

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 3

Despite the hard times the district has experienced during the past few years, the forthcoming gala week promises to quite equal, if it does…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Deniliquin

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 2

A meeting of the above society was held at the Royal Hotel on Thursday afternoon last. Present:— Messrs H. C. Parker (president in the chair), W. Kilpatrick, W. R. Clarke, R. W. McLaurin, F…

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Germanton P.,a. and H. Society

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 33

A meeting of the committee of the Germanton P., A. and H. Society was held in Germanton on Friday, 28th February. The following were present: —Mr. A. B. Brown,…

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The Berrigan Show a Pronounced Success

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 2

Office-bearers:—President, E. J. Gorman, Esq.; Vice-presidents, Messrs B. Carter, T. J. O’Dwyer and W. J. Greggery, junr.; Treasurer, J. W…

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Another Wonder for the Paris Exhibition

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

To cross the Atlantic on the bottom of the ocean is Simon Lake’s new plan with his new submarine boat the Argonaut. A year ago he made a thousand-mile trip…

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"All Is Fair in Love and War." a Worthless Maxim

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 16

There is a certain order of mind that is very much under the dominion of maxims. It is that large class of the human which does not think for itsolf ; which dare not trust…

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The Berrigan Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 2

The Berrigan show which took place [?]ast week was held under very favourable conditions. The weather was be useful and the attendance was very large. All sections [?]d well excepting vegetables,…

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Another Wonder for the Paris Exhibition

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 21 March 1900 · page 1

To cross the Atlartic on the bottom of the ocean is Simon Lake's new plan with his new submarine boat the Argonant. A year ago he made a thousand-mile trip…

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