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New England · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1897

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Brussels Exhibition

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1897 · page 1

Brussels is now very busy over the preparations for the International exhibition opening on April 24 next. The King of Belgium is taking the most active interest;…

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Poisons in Fair Blossoms

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1897 · page 2

ONE by one illusions are dispelled, and the case of the young woman who the other day was overcome by the perfume of a mass of violets sent by a friend adds another…

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The Cycling Carnival

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1897 · page 3

The cycling carrival on the racecourse was a great success, fully 1500 people being present, and the racing was first-clas, although in some…

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Anniversary Day in Armidale. Cycling Carnival

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1897 · page 3

The weather in Armidale yesterday was perfect, and the holiday proved a most successful one from every point of view. Up to ten o'clock numbers…

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Fancy Fair and Art Exhibition

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 4

LAST Tuesday evening a grand fancy fair and exhibition of art, for which extensive preparations had been made for several months past, was opened in the Town Hall…

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The R. C. Fair. a Successful Exhibition

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 6

Those connected with the organisation of the fancy fur, which has been in progress at the Town Hall throughout the present week, selected…

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Show Week

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 2

WEDNESDAY next will find us once more face to face with the Combined Glen Innes and Armidale Show, and from the present outlook there is every prospect of this year's exhibition surpassing in…

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The Uralla Show

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 4

THE annual exhibition of the Southern New England P. A. and H. Association was held at Uralla on Tuesday, Wednesday, and yesterday, and as an all round…

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Uralla Show. a Successful Exhibition

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 3

The nineteenth exhibition of the Southern New England P. A. and H. Association opened at Uralla on Tuesday, and was continued…

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The 1900 Exhibition

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 8

NOW that the Russian fetes are over, the preparatione for the 1900 Exhibition will be actively taken in hand. The two new Palaces in the…

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Tenterfield Show

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 6

The twentieth annual exhibition in connection with the Tenterfield P.and A. Association was opened on Wednesday. The weather was…

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Glen Innes Show

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 4

SOMEBODY has blundered. All the Armidle stores will cloes for the whole of Wednesday on account of the Glen Iunses Show but the railway…

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Feleration in the Show Line

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 4

On Wednesday and Thursday next the Show representing the combined effotts of Armiisie and Glen label Associations will take place, at Glen…

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The Combined Show

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1897 · page 3

TO-MORROW the combined Armidale Glen Innes show will be formally opened. Up to the present everything points to an unbounded success being the result of the Exhibition, and should the…

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The Glen Innes-Armidale Combined District Show. A Successful Exhibition

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 3

The fourth Shew under the combined arrangement between the someties of the above districts was opened in Glen Innes on Wednesday, and…

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Combined District Show

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1897 · page 2

CONTINUING our report of the Show we must state that the exhibits in the pavilion on this occasion were not so plentiful as heretofore, but in some classes the exhibits were of excellent quality,…

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The Combined Show

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1897 · page 4

THE above show was held at Glen Innes on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, being the fourth exhibition held under the arrangement entered into by the Armidale…

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Northern District News. Walcha. SHOW

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 3

The place is very busy in connection with show matters, and there is a probability of this year's attempt eclipsing former years'. The…

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Walcha Show. First Day. [By Telegraph.] Walche

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 2

The Show attendance was very good. The pavilion exhibits exceeded most sanguine expectations, as the continuous dry weather was expected to…

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WALCHA & DISTRICT. Walcha, Thursday. Walcha Show

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 4

The Waleha show of 1897 came to an end last night, and, considering the depression which is general throughout the colony, combined with the drought from which…

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