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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1900

58 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

School Work

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 April 1900 · page 1

School Exercise Book. Boy under 14—A Lazarus, 1. School Exercise Book. Girl under 14—M Wright, 1…

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Mr. Gladstone at School

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 3

Wm. E. Gladstone was twelve years of age when he and his two elder brothers, Thomas and Robertson, got down from the coach in 1821 at the Christopher Inn at Eton, and…

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School Picnic

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

The third annual picnic in aid of the Hoskin's Town Public School prize fund and Library was held on Easter Monday at the Public School, under the management…

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School Picnic

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

The third annual picnic in aid of the Hoskin's Town Public School prize fund and Library was held on Easter Monday at the Public School, under the management…

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Best School System in the World

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 4

In recent years Franco has been making greater strides of advancement in education than any country in the world. The France Prussian war taught her statesmen a lesson…

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The Village School

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2

Here where the bloom fringed winding highways meet The old white schoolhouse stands, With greensward worn and pathed by…

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St. Andrew’s Sunday School

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

The prizes awarded to scholars attending St. Andrew’s Sunday school were distributed in the church on Friday night, in the presence of a fair number of parents and friends…

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A School Celebration

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 2

On last Saturday there was a very large gathering of school children to celebrate the relief of Mafeking. It was to have taken place at an earlier date, but on account, of…

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A School Celebration

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 2

On last Saturday there was a very large gathering of school children to celebrate the relief of Mafeking. It was to have taken place at an earlier dare, but on account of…

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Unconscious Humour. What Is Written for School Magazines

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 June 1900 · page 2

The editor of the school magazine has usually a bad time of it, and during the summer months experiences great difficulty in getting together a sufficient number of contributions…

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A Popular Teacher

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 3

THE Collector correspondent to the "Goulburn Herald" says: -- "Miss Qu[?]n, the popular teacher at Taradale, being promoted to Kowen, near Queanbeyan, was the…

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Local News. School of Arts. The Annual Meeting

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening as their committee[?]ooms, the members of the Queanbeyan School of Arts held their tenth annual meeting. The attendance was very meagre…

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Miss Taylor's Audition of Pupils

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 July 1900 · page 2

The concert by Miss M. E. Taylor'e pupils, which had to be postponed in consequence of the rain, came off in the Literary Institute on Wednesday evening last. At the solicitation of sever…

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Queanbeyan School of Arts Annual Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 July 1900 · page 2

The annual meeting of the members of the above institution was held in the social room on Tuesday evening. In the absence of the President, Mr Garraway, one of the…

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Queanbeyan School of Arts Annual Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 July 1900 · page 2

The annual meeting of the members of the above institution was held in the social room on Tuesday evening. In the absence of the President, Mr Garraway, one of the…

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Board School Humour

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1900 · page 4

The [?] arising out of the examination and questionings of scholars in elementary schools in England are a porennial source of amusement to those engaged in the…

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Noblemen at School

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

The popular notion of the great public schools, and especially of Eton and Harrow, is that they are the most aristocratic institutions in the country--a sort of House of…

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Studies in Board Schools. Religious Lessons.—III. The Head Matter Takes Some Smaller Boys

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 2

And thus endeth the first lesson. The next morning Mr. Ellson himself took a class of little boys whose age was about 9 or 10. It was very simple, full of…

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A Board School Teacher's Ingenuity

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 5

There is a cruel Story in circulation concerning a certain teacher in one of the public schools who has been highly complimented because of the success attending…

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