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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1909

19 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Chatterboxes in the Hotel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 3

Now that the English travel so much it has often surprised me[?]that they have not insisted on a greater degree ot privacy and comfort in hotels. One family…

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Chatterboxes in the Hotel

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 3

Now that the English travel so much it has often surprised me that they have not insisted on a greater degree of privacy and comfort in hotels. One family…

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No License and Secret Drinking

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 2

A Parliamentary paper laid upon the table of the Perth Legislative Assembly is a report by Mr. Carson on the licensing legislation of Victoria, New South Wales, and…

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Dishes Worth £150. Regal Luxury for Wealthy Patrons of New York Hotel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 6

In order to meet the tastes of its wealthy patrons the management of New York's newest hotel palace in Fifth-avenue has engaged a staff of twenty-five gold and silver…

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Lady Chauffeur. First Woman Licensed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 3

The first lady motor-car driver, who has taken out a license entitling her to drive as a hired chauffeur, was yesterday (December 28) driving in the…

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Lady Chauffeur. First Woman Licensed

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 3

The first lady motor-car driver, who has taken out a license entitling her to drive as a hired chauffeur, was yesterday (December 28) driving in the…

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Monkey As Hotel Guest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 4

A monkey which was sent on January 6 as a surprise birthday present to a City man who lives at the Savoy Hotel, reduced the contents of his new…

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The Hotel Homes. Becoming More Popular

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 4

While the Bishop of Kensington is deploring that the home in the West End of London has in many cases become nothing more than a dormitory and a…

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Home Life in Hotels. a Growing Fashion

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 August 1909 · page 4

The fashion is growing among wealthy people of living in Hotels — not in the public rooms allocated to the ordinary visitor but in luxuriously-appointed…

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Hotel Mansion

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 August 1909 · page 3

The palatial residence, known as the "Hotel Mansion," occupies an absolutely unrivalled position, standing as it does on the highest…

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Besieged in a Hotel. Commissionaires Repel Intruders

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1909 · page 4

In one of the leading hotels of Southport a remarkable blockade, recalling the siege of "Fort Chabrol," in Paris, commenced a month ago…

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Closing of the Hotel at Mongarlowe

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1909 · page 2

Thursday last was the day appointed for closing the hotel, The Rising Sun, at Mongarlowe, and a farwell was taken in the shape of a dance, which was got up that night, the last of the many…

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Aborigines and Liquor. Hotel License Refused

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 2

AT the Wyalong Licensing Court on Thursday last, Robert Roberts applied for the renewal of his license for the Yancannia Hotel. The application was…

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From an Alpine Hotel. Britons in Switzerland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 October 1909 · page 4

Griselda stands at the window of the little wooden hotel bedroom, at four o'clock in the morning, looking wonderingly on to what she calls England's…

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A Tipless Hotel. Interesting Venture

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 4

The story of the English traveller returning from the Continent who found himself with pockets empty of money when he reached Dover-all on account…

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Auctioneers' Licenses

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

THE Queanbeyan bench of magistrates consisting of Dr. Richardson (chairman) and Messrs. F. A. Campbell, W. Pike, W. O. Russell, T: K. Clark, J…

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Auctioneers' Licenses

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 2

A COURT for the [?] yesterday, Messrs. Coffey, Cooper, and Williams being on the Bench. District [?] were granted to all the applicants, viz, W. J…

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Hotel Life in Texas

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 November 1909 · page 3

In the bedrooms of the chief hotel at Okla. homa, Texas, the following startling notice is exhibited:— (1) Gentlemen who go to bed in their boots…

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Transfer of License

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 2

THE [?] the Araluen Arms Hotel. Araluen, was transferred at the Braidwood Lie[?]ing Court on Monday from B. Lan[?] to J. Leyden. Mr. La[?]er left Braidwood for Sydney at the beginning of this…

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