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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1926

274 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 14

Temora Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 31

Glorious weather attended the 41st annual show at Temora—warm and bright and the showground a verdant pasture. An admirable setting indeed…

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Corowa Show. Special Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 6

The Railway Department has scheduled a special train to run on Saturday. October 2, for the Corowa Show. A train will leave Culcairn at 9 a.m…

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Music for the Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 2

The Border Brass Band has been engaged, as usual, to render a programme of music in front of the grandstand on the second day of the…

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Proposed Monster Carnival to Benefit Sporting Clubs

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 5

A conference of delegates representing the Cricket, Tennis, Football and Golf Clubs, was held at the Literary Institute, on Tuesday evening last…

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Albury Show Society a Successful Year

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 35

A meeting of the Albury Show Society was held on Friday afternoon. Mr. F. J. Belbridge presided. There, were also present: Messrs. S. R…

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A Fair Start Workers' "Compensation." Rates Down 50 Per Cent

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 22

A private insurance company has announced a reduction of 50 per cent. in the rates for workers' insurance as from October 1. This…

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Jas. Alston and Sons' Melbourne Show Exhibit

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 30

At the Melbourne Royal Show the Alston windmill exhibit was the centre of attraction to the man on the land generally, as the water supply question…

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At the Show. Inglewood, Wilson-street, The Rock

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—We have been having some very nice weather lately. Spring is here now, and the flowers look lovely. Were you at the Wagga…

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Corowa Jubilee Show

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1926 · page 3

The rain of the earlier part of the week washed the roads and earth clean and laid the dust for the opening day of the fiftieth anniversary of…

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No Reason for It When People Show a Way

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1926 · page 4

There can be no reason why any reader of this who suffers the fortune of an aching back, the annoyance of urinary disorders, the pains…

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Hay Show

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 October 1926 · page 2

Hay Show will be hold to-morrow and Thursday. PASTURES PROTRACTION BOARD Notices have been issued for a…

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Corowa's Jubilee Show 1876-1926 A Great Success-Reflecting the Progress and Development of Corowa and District

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 October 1926 · page 5

Fifty yearn ago the question of forming a Corowa Show Society was one which engaged the minds of the prominent business men of that day;…

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Corowa's Jubilee Show

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 6 October 1926 · page 3

ONE can hardly approach the history of the Corowa Show without delving into the past, when the gold fever was at its height, and men were frantically digging for the mineral form Beechworth, down through Eldorado and Indigo Creek, to the shallow alluvial…

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Fiftieth Annual Show Big Gate Receipts Quality of Exhibits Goad-Big Increase in Sheep

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 6 October 1926 · page 4

Thus we get down to the Jubilee Exhibition of 1926. With a favourable winter, and promise of a good Spring, pointing to an abundant harvest, and…

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Successful Fair Kindergarten [?]

The Independent · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 2

A highly successful sale of gifts, in [?] of the Presbyterian Kindergarten [?] was conduct [?] the [?] [?] yesterday afternoon [?]…

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Yarrawonga Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 2

To-day (Friday and Saturday the 44th annual exhibition of the Yarrawonga and Border Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held. The…

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The Late Show

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 2

The first and second prizes for the best boy rider were divided between W. Hoysted and Geo. McMahon. The riders of the horses in the section…

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Some Show Entries Noname, [?]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—I enr[?] things in the show, a speci[?] woodwork and drawing. [?] a little dog. Would you ple[?]…

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Tragedy at Cudal Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 4

The Cudal A. and P. Society's annual show opened on Wednesday in tragic circumstances. Mr. Cecil Smith, president of the show, and acting as a…

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The Show Entries Close

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 2

Entries for the Jubilee Show of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society will be received by the secretary (Mr. P. Fagan), up to…

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