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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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District News. Bungendore. Concert and Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1908 · page 2

THE entertainment given on Friday night in the Temperance Hall, in connection with the Labour League, was a great success, the hall being well filled with an…

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Politics in Pictures. Canvas Removed From the Paris Academy

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 July 1908 · page 3

Before President Fallleres paid his official visit to the inauguration of the Salon of the Societe Nationale this afternoon (writes the "Daily Mail"…

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Concert

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 July 1908 · page 2

At night the Protestant Hall was crowded with an audience anxious to hear the band of which such glowing reports had been received. The…

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First Moving Pictures Taken From a Balloon

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 5

In Germany photographs for the cinematograph have just been taken from a balloon successfully by Herr Ernemann, a Dresden engineer. As…

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Hibernian Ball

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 2

That the annual ball of the H.A.C.B. Society on Wednesday night last was an unqualified success from a social viewpoint was admitted by all those who participated…

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Michelago. Cricketers' Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1908 · page 2

THE annual ball in aid of the funds of the Michelago Cricket Club was held in the School of Arts Hall on Friday night last. This ball is always a very popular function,…

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An Impressionist Artist. Destroys His Pictures. Three Years' Labor Wasted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 3

Excitement has been created in French art circles (writes the "Daily Mail" of 18th May) by the action of M. Claude Monet, the leading…

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The Ball and Juvenile Dance

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 2

IN aid of St. Benedict's Convent were held in the Protestant Hall on the nights of Wednesday and Thursday last. Among the most popular…

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The Juvenile Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 2

Last night the children had their turn on the floor, flocking in as is usually the case when it is their night, and with the assistance of a number of adults, were put…

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The Convent Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 2

THE gathering in the Protestant Hall on Tuesday night for the annual ball in aid of St. Benedict's Convent, dispelled all fears, and sustained all hopes…

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Theatre Seats at 5d

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 4

The Berne authorities, holding that the theatre is a powerful instrument for the education of the masses, have decided that on two days of the week the seats in the…

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Some Internal Pictures. Prisons and Princes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1908 · page 8

Rothay Reynolds writes in the "Daily News":— The room was hung with pale green brocade and fragrant with roses. The…

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The Theatre Illness. a French Complaint

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1908 · page 8

From Paris, on July 9, the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:—Dr. Mathieu, of the Theatre Doctors' Friendly Society, stated to-day that…

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Two Lives for a Ball. Children Precipitated Into a River

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 3

People the heroism of three young men, [?] little children were drowned in the [?] Tyne at Gateshead on. A number of children were playing…

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The Smoke Concert

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 2

THE usual Smoke Concert was held in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday night, there being a large attendance present. The President, Alderman Richard Moore, occupied…

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Dance at Cuppacumbalong Wool Shed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 2

A DANCE organised by Mrs. Circuitt, of Cuppacumbalong, in order to afford a night's enjoyment for the residents of the surrounding district, was held in…

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Smoke Concert

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1908 · page 2

The prizes were paid over at the Smoke Concert at night. The Union's Hall was packed, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Many visitors were present from…

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Correspondence. the Band. (To the Editor)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 5

SIR,—I hope by this time the committee of aldermen and others can see that they cannot do without a band in the town, either one of their own properly…

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A Theatre Bag

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 2

The pocketless skirt has rendered essential the use of vanity bags or other little reticules for carrying the purse, handkerchief, card-case, and…

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A Weird Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 5

IN the latter part of that dark period of superstition and moral obliquity, the middle ages, the strangest and most amazing epidemic broke out…

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