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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1920

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"Fair Exchange" Lollies for Fountain Pen

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 1

James Borthwick, son of the Stockton police sergeant was playing on the Stockton breakwater on Saturday when a boy took a fountain pen from…

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Carnival of Crime French War Aftermath

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

The Paris Apaches are once morn on the warpath, it is reported. During the early part of the war there were rumors that these notorious…

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Hamilton Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 6

The most ambitions carnival which has been organised by the citizens of Hamilton in connection with the patriotic movement will take place on the Show Ground…

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Red Letter Day Newcastle Honors the Anzacs Carnival Arrangements Five Days' Programme

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 6

Anzac Day, April 23, is Australia's red letter day. It will be celebrated throughout Australia, but Newcastle's five day's programme should eclipse any in the Commonwealth. To-morrow, a carnival season starts…

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Fun of the Fair Street Carnival Many Pretty Stalls

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 5

Newcastle streets this morning were full of daintily dressed ladies working hard on their stalls preparing for the two days carnival in ald of…

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SWIMMING To-morrow's Carnival

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 6

The championships and handicaps contested at the Ocean Baths last Saturday were perhaps the most intercating and keenest of tho season…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Carnival Opens To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 4

The organising secretaries (Messrs. Lawson, Cannington, and Drayton) state that, given fine weather to-day and to-morrow, the carnival, for which…

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The Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 8

On page 2 will be found a report of the Kurri Kurri Show, in which a complete list of all first prize winners will be found…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Successful Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 6

The street carnival in aid of the Newcastle Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Fund was held yesterday, and there was a combination of effort which…

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After the Carnival Broadmeadow Accident Victim's Condition Critical

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 5

George Henry Montgomery (32), of Hall street, Adamstown, tell off a 'bus at Broadmeadow last night and was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital…

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Abandoned Beach Carnival Gale on the Sands Last Night's Success

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 5

The carnival in aid of the Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial Fund was to have been continued this afternoon on the beach. An interesting programme…

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Carnival in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 7

Final arrangements were made on Saturday with Mr. Jack Munro, Manager Stadiums, Limited, Sydney, to bring a team of English, Australian, American, and…

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Kurri Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 6

Wind and dust, combined with dull threatening weather, militated against the success of the Kurri Kurri Show on Saturday, but the attendance was fair,…

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Boxing Feast Carnival at the Victoria

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 4

The fighting men of the ring, with few exceptions, went into the big fight with the same cheery spirit of courage and aplomb that marked their…

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Hamilton Carnival

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 5

The Hamilton carnival in aid of the local soldiers' monument fund will commence on the Show Ground, Broadmeadow, to-morrow night and…

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Hamilton Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 4

The carnival arranged by the residents of Hamilton in aid of the local soldiers' monument fund is to be opened on the Newcastle Showground to-night. An…

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Hamilton Carnival Monument Fund Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 5

Hamilton Monument Committee last night inaugurated the four-nights' carnival on the Snow Ground. In fur[?]erance of the movement to raise at…

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Maitland District. Dungog Show

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 6

Unfavourable weather conditions prevailed yesterday for the opening day of the 32nd annual show of the Dungog Agricultural and Horticultural Association…

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District News. Hamilton. Soldiers' Memorial Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 3

The four days' carnival, in aid of the soldiers' monument fund, was commenced in the showground last night. The ground, within the vicinity of the grandstand,…

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Soldiers' Memorial Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 6

The carnival in aid of the Hamilton soldiers' monument fund was continued at the Showground, Broadmeadow, last night. The ground was again brilliantly…

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