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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1904

157 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 8

Merewether. All Nations' Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 5

The All Nations' Fair was continued last evening, when satisfactory business was transacted. The tug-of-war competition proved an interesting event. There…

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Merewether. All Nations' Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 6

The All Nations' Fair was well attended last evening, and the business transacted was satisfactory. The Convent schoolchildren danced the maypole, the item…

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St. Louis Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The St. Louis Exhibition is a "frost." The United States Government threatens to appoint a receiver, and…

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The St. Louis Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 9

The great exhibition at St. Louis, to commemorate the centenary of the acquisition of Lousiana by the United States by purchase from Napoleon, was formally…

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District News. Merewether. All Nations' Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 6

The All Nations' Fair was continued last evening, and attracted a large attendance. The ladies appeared to be doing a good business at the stalls, and…

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Canary and Cage Bird Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1904 · page 5

The Newcastle Canary and Cage Birds' Society's Show was brought to a conclusion at the Central (social) Hall in King-street on Saturday night, the visitors…

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Newcastle Agricultural Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1904 · page 5

A meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Agricultural Society was held at the Chamber of Commerce last night. Dr. Beeston presided. The election of…

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Merewether. All Nations Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1904 · page 6

The All Nations' Fair, after a successful run of eleven days, was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday night last. The principal drawing for the sulky and other…

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Maitland District H.r. A. and H. Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 6

A meeting of the committee of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on the Show Ground yesterday afternoon. Mr. R. H…

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The Sheep Show. Officially Opened. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 5

The Sheep Show was officially opened to-day by Sir Harry Rawson, the State Governor. There was a large attendance on the occasion…

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Commonwealth Sheep Show. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 July 1904 · page 5

The attendance at the Commonwealth Sheep Show, on the Agricultural Ground was limited to-day. The final of the dog trials constituted the principal item of…

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Beating Creation. Freaks and Wonders of the World's Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1904 · page 11

"The Express" has some interesting details of the St. Louis Exhibition:— The total cost of the World's Fair is calculated to exceed £10,000,000, When…

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At the World's Fair. Impressions of a Newcastle Citizen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 July 1904 · page 6

Mr. Charles Hawken of the Commercial Hotel, Scott and Newcomen streets, writing to a Newcastle friend from St. Louis, under data June 7, says:—…

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Agricultural Society. Rules to Be Revised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1904 · page 4

A meeting of the general committee of the Newcastle Agricultural Society was held at the Chamber of Commerce last evening. Mr. S. S. Arnott presiding. There…

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St. Louis Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1904 · page 7

The St. Louis Exhibition, says the correspondent of "Engineering" at the Exhibition, has cost fifty million dollars, or over ten million pounds. Of this sum the…

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The Maitland Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 3

Sir,—I desire to bring before the notice of the public the treatment I have received from the committee of the H.R.A. and H. Association, with regard to the protest I…

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Russia's Great Fair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 July 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Russia is considering whether, in view of the war, it will be advisable to hold the Nijni Novogorod Fair this year…

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St. Louis Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 August 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—A serious dispute has occurred between the foreign exhibitors and the authorities of the St. Louis Exhibition, owing to the…

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Another Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1904 · page 7

There is a movement on foot to promote another world's show in the Exhibition Building in a year or eighteen months time. The matter is to he shortly brought…

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Pen-notes and Pencillings. a Ship That Will Cross the Atlantic in Three Days. the Illustrations Show the Bows of the Meteor: the Style of Propeller; the Position of the Screws: and the Ship Itself

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1904 · page 5

The Germans hold the record for fast steamboat travelling. For fifty years England held it, and then came the Dent-sohland, which in crossing the Atlantic in…

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