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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1901

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

School Vacations

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 2

BITTER complaints (says the Gininderra correspondent to the "Penny Post") are being made by the parents of children attending the various schools in this district…

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Fatality at a Sunday School Picnic

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 3

A SHOCKING fatality occurred at tho Presbyterian Sunday School picnic at Dobies, in the Ararat district on Tuesday afternoon. A lad named Alexander Byrne was…

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School of Arts

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 February 1901 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the Committee of the Queanbeyan School of Arts on Wednesday evening, Mr Theo Cox, president, in the chair, it was resolved to subscribe to one…

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School Life in China

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 2

As a role, girts in China never go to school, unless they have rich parents. The first day of the school year each scholar brings a little money, and a feast is prepared, to…

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How Uprisings Begin in the Celestial Empire. Sidelights on the Situation in China By a Teacher aid Missionary Who Has Lived in Pekin for Years

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 2

The “Boxers,” so-called, are of the Lowest Classes, Beggars, Thieves, and Hoodlums, or “Fier Tu Tzus”—How Riots are Incited by Posters and “Yao Yen,” or…

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Dickens As a Schoolboy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 2

At Wellington House Academy, a house in the Hampstead-road, now no longer to be seen, Dickens remained nearly two years, being a little over 14 years of age when be quitted it…

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Teaching His Teacher

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 2

In one of our public schools a short time ago a bright, intelligent boy of six summers was receiving his first lesson in arithmetic. A simple subtraction…

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School for Mistresses

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

A novel experiment in domestic economy is about to be attempted in Brighton. Much has been done in the way of training servants; and one of the…

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A Popular Teacher

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 April 1901 · page 2

MR. E. G. WILLIAMS, son of Mr. Williams of Sutton, who has had charge of the public school lit Nimitybelle for the past 14 years, has been transferred to the Moss…

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The Royal Visit. Unfurling the Flag at the School

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 3

AT the Superior Public School on Tuesday, in common with all the Public Schools throughout the States, the Union Jack was unburied with formalities. To facilitate…

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St. Benedict's School

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 4

As will be seen by reference to our business columns, the annual entertainment by the pupils of St Benedicts Convent school, is to take place in the Protestant…

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New School for Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 May 1901 · page 2

In reply to the letter and petition urging the erection of a school on the Narrabudah side of the Canberra river, Mr P Sheedy has received the following official…

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St. Benedict's Schools Concert. A Successful Entertainment

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

A PROGRAMME of twenty-one items, (three solid hours' entertainment) run off without a hitch, is something for congratulation and undoubtedly the young folks who so…

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A Sunday School Tea Meeting

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 4

Robin Goodfellow writes:—I have [?] previously heard of a mother taking [?] the wrong baby, but such an incident [?] at Necheils recently. In [?]…

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Salaries of Public School Teachers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 2

RECENTLY the executive of the Public School Teachers' Association addressed a letter to the Minister for Public Instruction, asking him to receive a deputation on the…

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[All Rights Reserved.] a Doctor of the New School

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 3

Dr. Philip Hartley paced the floor of his reception room with slow and heavy tread. His hands were clasped behind him, and his head was slightly inclined towards the…

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A Doctor of the New School. [All Rights Reserved.]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 3

Dr. Philip Hartley paced the floor of his reception room with slow and heavy tread. His hands were clasped behind him, and his head was slightly inclined towards the…

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That Schoolboy Fiend!

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 2

Those of the uninitiated who think that a school master's life is a prosy one and dereid of humour are must certainly mistaken. An average schoolboy is always "cute," always…

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School for Scouts. American Enterprise

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 1

In the United States the Government have set aside 1,000,000 acres of wild and mixed country in Colorado, where the embryo scout may wander far from…

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Lord Normanby. a Marquis, Clergyman, and Schoolmaster

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 1

Lord Normanby is described as a man with a triple personality. He is at once a marquis, a clergyman, and a schoolmaster. At his ancestral home, Mulgrave…

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