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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1906

170 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 9

The Ball

The Age · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

Elaborate preparations are being made for the ball which will be held in the Temperance Hall on Friday night, and like the races bids fair to be one of the most…

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Race Ball

The Age · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

The ball at night was very successful, there being present fully 50 couples. Everything was carried out in a very pleasing and enjoyable manner. The dancers had a good…

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The Race Ball

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

At night a well-patronised race ball was held at Byrne's Hall, about 40 couples being present. The musicians were…

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A Sad Story. Struck Blind at a Dance

The Age · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 4

A tragic- event marred the galety of a dance at Newark New Jersey, telegraphs the New York correspondent of the "Petit Journal"…

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Mine That Never Was. “Band of the Baker” Swindlers

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 4

On 26th December; the Paris correspondent of the “London Express” wrote:— Another exploit of the “Band or the…

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Pictures of Martyrdom. Curious Mingling of Ancient and Modern Scenes in the Coliseum of Home

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 4

One of the oddest minglings of the ancient with the modern is a moving picture reproduction of the martyrdom of an early Christian in Rome…

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The Ball

The Age · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 2

Was held in the Temperance Hall in the evening and was a great success. The hall was tastefully decorated with the fronds of the fern tree and presented a very pretty…

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Dance at Burra

The Age · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 2

A BALL was held at Burra on Friday last, the object being to increase the funds of the local Cricket Club. Mr. James Moore kindly lent his house for the…

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The First Band of Hope

The Age · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 4

Leeds a writer in the "Sunday Strand" tells, has the honor of having given birth to the first "Band of Hope." Mrs Ann Jane Carlile and the Rev…

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The Braidwood Band

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

The third annual meeting of the subscribers to the Band was held at the Council Chambers on Thursday night last. Some fifteen persons were in attendance. Alderman Higgins, the President…

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The Carnival Ball

The Age · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 2

Was a great success about 75 couples being present. Unfortunately the caterer was not up to expectations with the supper he provided and the committee are very sore…

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Free Theatre Tickets. Amusing Requests Received

The Age · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 4

The ways of people who 'try to obtain free theatre seats from managers are as varied as they are strange, but the following letters received at the Duke of…

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Sketcher a Smoking Concert

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 4

A smoking concert on board ship. Always a novel kind of entertainment, it is nowhere more so than on one of our great men-of-war, where the officers and men alike feel—…

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A Theatre Wrecked. Hypnotic Failure. Bolts As Weapons

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 5

Ahrensineyer, the “cowboy bypncitst,” met with an audience that he was unable to bypnotise in Belfast on Friday night, 2nd February, and a not took…

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Ball at Michelago

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 2

THE annual R.C. ball was held in the Michelago Hall on Friday evening last, and ranked as the event of the season. Fifty couples put in an…

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Combined Town Band and Fire Brigade Continental

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 2

The continental promoted by the members of the Braidwood Town Band and Fire Brigade combined eventuated on Thursday night last. Punctually at half-past 7 the Band…

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Braidwood Band and the Phonograph

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

It was our pleasure during last -week to hear a couple of items by the local Band reproduced on the phonograph, and we can honestly assert that both records…

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Town Band and Fire Brigade Continental

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

The promoters of the above continental must assuredly feel highly gratified at the undoubted success attained their first attempt to cement the union…

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Picnic and Ball at Naas

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

FOR weeks the popular teacher of the Naas school and an energetic committee had been working hard to make the school picnic and ball…

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Concert

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

We would direct special attention to a notice in this issue, regarding a concert in connection with the Presbyterian Church, to be held on the 14th of next…

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