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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1911

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Monarch Picture Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 2

The new machine at the above show continues to reel off "real" line films in uninterrupted Heredity. Each picture is now exhibited with a clearness that…

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Wellington P., A. and H. Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 4

A statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the Wellington P., A. and H. Association's Spring Show shows that the receipts…

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Peak Hill P., A. and H. Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 7

A general meeting of subscribers of the Peak Hill P., A. and H. Association was held for the purpose of dealing with the proposal to alter the date of the…

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Methodist Fair

The Cobar Herald · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 5

Large audiences are attracted to the Masonic Hall nightly, drawn thither by the pretty and interesting Fair in aid of the Methodist Church…

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Monarch Picture Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 5

The glare of the "Pathe" still lights up the sheet with animated photography at the Skating Rink, and the management continue to control large audiences. The…

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A Poppy Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 8

"A pin to see a poppy show .. .. .. " " 'Twas in the lonesome October .. .. "The leaves they were crisped and sere." Sings a poet of the North, but here…

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Geurle Carnival. A Great Successes

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 2

The fourth annual carnival, ran under the auspices of the Geurie Farmers and Settlers Association, took place last Wednesday and was an unqualified success…

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A New Picture Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 4

On a very short notice, due, perhaps to the pardonable eagerness of the church workers to keep faith with the public, a fair gathering assembled at…

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The Geurie Carnival. Over 3000 People Present. Glorious Weather.--- All Records Broken. Big Fields and Keen Struggles. Geurie Should Hold a Show. List of Officers.—President, Mr. G. G. Wiseman; Vice-presidents, Messrs. H. W. [?]ocks, J. McLeod, R. H. Jackson, W. E. Sparke, R. E. O'Brien, and O. W'se; Committee, Messrs. W. Richards, T. F. Crick. L. D. Turnbull, J. Hobden, C. Dawson, C. F. Morley, G. Hubbard, E. E. Martin, J. Baskerville, J. Best wick, P. J. Moore, G. Sears, T. Giddings, T. A. Whiteley, T. Cantrill, W. Kennedy, T. Porton, W. Douglas, N. Larum, F. W. K. Wise, W. Smith, A. S. Don, N. Bernasconi, E. W. Payne. J. E. Whiteley, W. J. O'Brien, and J. M. Whiteley

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 2

About a fortnight ago Chief J.[?]W. Sillar, of the Dubbo Caledonian Society, claimed that the sons of Scotia were the chosen people of the West…

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Monarch Picture Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 2

The combined forces of good films projected by the powerful glare of an excellent machine still continue to prove irresistible attractions to the…

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School of Arts Flower Show

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 October 1911 · page 4

The third flower show stud industrial exhibition in connection with the Wellington School of Arts will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday…

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C. of E. Picture Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 4

The second entertainment in connection with the above took place in the School Hall on Tuesday evening last, and was a pronounced success,…

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Poultry. Birds for Show. Are They Utilitarian? an Interesting Analysis

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 October 1911 · page 3

We are apt to adopt shibboleths somewhat indiscriminately, and perhaps no more confusedly than in connection with poultry (writes J. H…

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School of Arts Flower Show

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 October 1911 · page 2

The third flower show and industrial exhibition in connection with the Wellington School of Arts will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday…

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Amusements. Monarch Picture Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 3

Silent dramas, intensely interesting in their realism, are still enacted on the screen at the Skating Rink. The "shadow" plays as magnet to draw large…

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A Poppy Show. (No. V.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 4

"A Pin to Sec a Poppy Show." "Twos in the lonesome October. " "The leaves they were crisped and sere." October is the "Month of Roses."…

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Welling on P., A. and H. Society

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 October 1911 · page 7

The annual meeting of the Wellington P. A. and H. Society will he had [?] the 15th November at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The business to be…

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Amusements. Monarch Picture Show

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 27 October 1911 · page 4

The above shew still goes on exercising its magnetic attracting prop[?]ncities over the Dubbo public, who respond by attending in large numbers. The programme…

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The New Show Ground

The Cobar Herald · Friday 27 October 1911 · page 7

A meeting of the committee of the P. and A. Association was held at the Great Western Hotel on Wednesday evening of last week…

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Sydney's First Motor and Cycle Show. the Latest in Motor Mechanics

The Western Herald · Saturday 28 October 1911 · page 7

The main pavilion of the Royal Agricultural Society was the locus of Sydney's first Motor and Cycle Show, which was inaugurated on the 30th…

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