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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1909

48 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3

The Race Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 January 1909 · page 5

Held on Friday night in the Temperance Hall was the most successful ever held in connection with the Race Club. The hall, which was prettily…

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The Parker Reeve Concert

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 January 1909 · page 2

CAME OFF in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday evening before a fair audience. Those who overlooked attending this fixture missed a musical treat…

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The Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

To further augment the funds of the Cricket Club took place in the woolshed at night, and like the sports was a pronounced success. The spacious woolroom proved…

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Fancy Dress Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

IN the Protestant Hall last night, a plain and fancy dress ball, promoted by Messrs. J. McArthur and E. O'Rourke was held. Like all previous socials in which these two…

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Modern Taste in Plays. English Ideals for the Theatre

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

In a number of Paris theatres now, notices politely remind ladies that hats are only "tolerated"—the result being, of course, that they are not tolerated…

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Oddfellows' Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 February 1909 · page 5

THE M.U.I.O.O.F. members held in their anniversary ball in the Protestant Hall on Friday night, the event proving a big success. The hall was decorated for the occasion with…

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Quadrilles of Horrors the Ball of the Paris Medicals

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 February 1909 · page 4

The recent ball of the Paris medical students was, says the "Telegraph's" correspondent of December 29, worthy of the most gruesome…

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[?]Ing with the Band

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 March 1909 · page 3

What is the most imposing object in a brass band? "The bans drummer, undoubtedly," will say nine persons out of ten. See how he…

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The Smoke Concert

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 March 1909 · page 2

On the first night of the Show a smoke concert was held at the Literary Institute, when there was an attendance of about 80. The President, Mr. R. G. Hassall, occupied the chair…

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The Smoke Concert

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 March 1909 · page 2

On the first night of the Show a smoke concert was held at the Literary Institute, when there was an attendance of about 80. The President, Mr. R…

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The Burns Johnson Pictures. Mr. M'intosh's Great Scoop

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 6

Private cabled advices concerning the movements and doings of Air. Hugh D. M'Intogh, which have been received by his Australian manager, Mr. E Covell…

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Miss Roosevelt's Debut President's Daughter Comes Out. Brilliant White House Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 4

Miss Ethel Roosevelt. the President's seventeen-year-old daughter made a brilliant entry into the social world on Monday night (Dec. 28), when a…

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The Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 2

Took place in the London Bridge woolshed at night and was attended by about 25 couples. Excellent dance music was furnished by Messrs. W. Harriott, G. Leach, A…

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Eight Hours in a Coal Mine. Striking Pictures of a Collier's Day

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 1

From the bottom of the shaft, if you look straight up, you can see a very blue star. That is daylight. You seem to be looking up at it through…

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Ball-punching. a Solicitor's Record

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 3

Arthur Lancaster, who last year, at the Crystal Palace, swung a blacksmith's hammer for 12 hours—a world's record—is slowly but. surely creating a…

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Band of Hope

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 2

THE first meeting of the newly formed Band of Hope was held in the Sunday school portion of the Methodist Church on Wednesday night, the Rev. H. Fleming presiding…

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Whale-hunters' Ball at the Dancing House

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 5

It was nearly midnight, although sunset tints tinged the horizon, below which the sun had dipped for a short time. Basalt peaks, rising in…

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L.O.L. Star of the South. Annual Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 July 1909 · page 2

WHEN it was announced through the local press that the members of the local Orange Lodge intended to hold their annual ball it was conceded by…

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Infant Prodigy. Amazes Concert Audiences

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 July 1909 · page 3

The audience in Bluthner Hall, Wigmore street, on Tuesday (said "Lloyd's Weekly News" on May 9), stared in amazement at a little mite, not yet…

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Swinburne and the Theatre

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 4

In spite, of Swinburne's devotion to Elizabethan drama, he could seldom be tempted (says the "Westminster Gazette") to go inside a theatre to see one…

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