The Passing Show
"THE other morning, I ate pearls, rubies. and emeralds! This must sound completely fantastic, but it happens to be true…
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Shows & fairs, 1948
909 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 46
Bowls Fern and Halpin Win Carnival Pairs
After a keenly contested game at Tweed Heads bowling green yesterday afternoon J. Fern (substitute for G. Stokes) and…
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AT the beaches yesterday Barnabus could not find any evidence to support a rumor that Government inspectors had asked…
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NANKING, Thursday (AAP-Reuter).-- "China has no censorship except that imposed at Mukden, where military hostilities are in…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: New South Wales North Coast, with an unbeaten record, won the Country…
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GRADUALLY, men are adopting comfort for summer attire. Actually, a little more than comfort is needed, for on some of the…
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Britain's first International Motor Show for ten years has now, been arranged to take place at Earl's Court, London. It is to be…
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Little Even Andersen, of Casino, was obviously reluctant to leave the attractions at the ambulance carnival at Evans Head. Needless to say, the main attraction was the flying boats…
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DO you know how the kiddies in England are obtaining their chewing gum? Mr Charlie Pallett, of…
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ON the counter of a Kirra store I noticed a card bearing the inscription, "Lost, tin of cigarettes containing money, reward."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country Tennis Juniors Show Great Improvement
SYDNEY, Monday: A vast improvement in the standard of junior players was evident in the 1948 country tennis car[?]dval,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1948 Royal Show Handcrafts Section for Men and Women
After consultation with Australian Red Cross Society representatives engaged in the organisation of handcrafts for service men and women,…
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ARE school holidays too long? When several mothers were questioned about it, their replies suggested that most mothers…
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WHEN will it be possible for the average man to buy a racebook, go home, switch on his television set and follow the colors'…
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SIR FREDERICK WELLS. London's genial new Lord Mayor, will be lucky if his year of office costs him less than £15,000 cr…
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THE world-famous singer, Richard Tauber, whose death is reported, although an Australian by birth was a naturalised British…
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THERE was a time when practically every home possessed a piano and in nearly every street one could find adorning the front…
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SOUTHPORT, Sunday: John McNamara, captain of the Miami Club, today won the senior belt race at the South Coast…
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The Royal Agricultural Society announces that schedules and entry forms for the 1943 Exhibition, to be held in the Toowoomba…
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CYNICS among radio listeners may wonder if anything new was learned in the recent experiment whereby a hypnotist,…
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