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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1900

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Before the Ball

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 1

There are in big towns, beauty doctors, who are as good as their word when they say they can send a girl to a ball, however plain of face and form she may be, a…

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Concert at Yarraford

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2

A CRISP bright April night of Autumn, with the beams of a young moon playing among the "giant eucalpti'' by the roadside, added to the drive of those who wended their way to Yurraford on…

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Social Dance

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 2

This took place in the Gymnasium Hall on Monday night, and was largely patronised. Mr. A. J. Smith was the M.C., while Mrs. Kelly provided the dance…

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Before the Ball

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 2

THERE are in big towns beauty doctors, who are as good as their word when they say they can send a girl to a ball, however plain of face and form…

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Come and Dance

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

One of the most striking departures fsom old fashioned styles is that adopted for the latest invitations to society festivities. The invitations to [?]…

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Ball at Yallaroi

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 2

THE evening of Friday, 4th instant, undoubtedly carved a nick in the social post of rural Yallaroi owing to the marked success which attended the…

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Come and Dance

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2

ONE of the most striking departures from old fashioned style is that adopted for the latest invitations to society festivities. The invitations to some of…

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Guyra News. Concert at Guyra

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 6

The residents of this rustic retreat rolled up to a man to patronise the concert in the local School of Arts Hall on Friday night, 11th instant…

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The Band Social

The Inverell Times · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 2

A ball in aid of the local brass band was held in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday night last. Despite the inclemency of the weather there was a very large attendance of Terpsichorean…

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Relief Society Ball

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 5

The Relief Society's annual ball, one of the social attractions of the season, which eventuated in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, did not…

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The Concert

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 4

The Town Hall was densely packed long before the time for commencing the concert had arrived, and scores of people were enable to [?]…

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The Band Ball

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

It was in the ball room at Brussels that Wellington received the first intimation of advance of the French before Waterloo, and this fact was brought to mind on Thursday evening as one stood…

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Oddfellows' Ball

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

THE annual ball in connection with the local Lodge of Oddfellows was held on last Thursday night in the School of Arts. Considering that…

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Ball at Bun Lomond

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

ON Queen's Birthnight a ball, in aid of the Glen Innes Hospital, took place in the Railway Goods Shed at Ben Lomoud. The room was artistically decorated with flags, flowers, and evergreens, and…

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Irish National Association. the Concert

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 4

THE concert, held under the auspices of the New England Irish National Association in the Armidale Town Town Hall on Thursday night last,…

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Picnic and Ball at Yetman

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

THURSDAY, the 24th May, being Queen's Birthday, the Yetman annual school picnic and ball were held. Unfortunately the weather during the…

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Death at a Ball. Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 5

COUNCILLOR J. F. M'CARRON, f Messrs. M'Carron, Bird, and Co., while dancing a polka at the ball held at the Town Hall last night in aid of…

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Death in the Ball Room. Prominent Public Citizen. Ydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 2

DURING the progress of a bull in the Town, Hall, Melbourne, last night, Councillor.M'Carron, of the firm of M'Carron, Bird and Co., while dancing a polka suddenly…

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The Hospital Ball

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 2

A FLOOD of music pouring into every nook and crevice of the large building, the large mirrors reflecting a throng of happy dancers with mind contented with its present…

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Ball at Gi[?] Prairie

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1900 · page 2

ON Friday night last a Ball at the residence of Mr. J. Cavanagh, Glen Prairie, was made the source of great [?]…

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