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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Churches

Churches, 1900

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Funny Scene in a Village Church

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 August 1900 · page 5

The vicar certainly had a pretty wit. People said that he was [?] and he tried to live up to the reputation. But he was not always a success. On one…

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Church Coughers Read This

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 4

Very many cases of chronic coughs are simply the result of habit An eminent doctor once made the following suggestion about how to stop a cough…

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Church Coughers, Read This

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 6

Very many cases of chronic coughs are simply the result of habit. An eminent doctor once made the following suggestion about how to stop a cough:…

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At Church Parade

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 1

At a recent church parade of a Volunteer Corps, one of the members, who really wished to be exempted, from attendance, was observed to be standing…

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A Floating Church

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 3

Owing to the way which the population is scattered over Holme Fen, it was impossible to find any suitable cantata point for a mission room, and a building on wheela…

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Sleepers in Church

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 1

In 1736 the churohwardous of Prestwich, near Manchester, resolved "That thirteen shillings a year be given to George Grimshaw, ot Roodenlane, for ye time being and a new coat (not…

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Presbyterian Anniversary

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 2

The second anniversary of the Rev. John E.Moffatt's charge of the Presbyterian Church in Queanbeyan district was celebrated on Wednesday last, October 3rd…

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Presbyterian Anniversary

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 2

The second anniversary of the Rev. John E. Moffatt's charge of the Prosbyterian Church in Queanbeyan district was celebrated on Wednesday last, October 3rd…

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Wesleyan Church

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 2

The quarterly meeting was held at Wattle Park on Wednesday last. There was a full attendance of members, with the Rev. A. Stephen in the chair. Nine names were…

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Wesleyan Church

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 2

The quarterly meeting was hold at Wattle Park on Wednesday last. There was a full attendance of members, with the Rev. A. Stephen in the chair. Nine names were…

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Presbyterian Tea Meeting and Concerts

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 2

The tea meeting and concert at the Literary Institute on Friday night last was one of the best attended and most enjoyable reunions which has taken place in Braidwood for many a year past…

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Presbyterian Church

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 October 1900 · page 2

ACTIVE preparations are being made for the holding of the annual Tea Meeting and Concert in connection with the Presbyterian Church at Canberra on Wednesday,…

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Hall. Wesleyan Church Social at Wattle Park

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 2

SATURDAY, the 19th October, was a "red letter day" at Wattle Park, the cause of the people's exultation being the opening of the new addition, to the Wesleyan…

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A Curious Church Built of Bulrushes

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 4

The [?] place of worship in Western Australia was quite unique, both from its [?] from of construction and also the several purposes to which it was devoted…

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A Church Item

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 November 1900 · page 2

MADAM MELBA was announced to sing in aid of a cathedral fond in England recently, and the chimb authorities decided to charge an admission fee to the cathedral…

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A Church Item

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 November 1900 · page 3

Madam Melba was announced to sing in aid of a cathedral fund in England recently, and the church authorities decided to charge an admission fee to the Cathedral. Most…

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The Heart's Mission

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 November 1900 · page 1

Far, so far, across the sea, When you sail away, O, my love, will yon think of me Ev'ry day?…

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Fortified Churches

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 November 1900 · page 2

In the twelfth century Geisa II., King of Hungary, sent heralds into German towns to invite their yeomen to settle in his scantily peopled land. Thousands…

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Church of England Garden Fete

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 December 1900 · page 2

THE Garden Fete advertised for Wednesday afternoon on the Christ Church vicarage grounds, in aid of the Sunday School Funds, duly came off, and was very well…

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Enlargement of The Canberra Presbyterian Church

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 December 1900 · page 2

AT a meeting of the trustees of the Canberra Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon last it was finally decided to enlarge the church by the erection of an additional…

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