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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1904

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

School Room Jingles

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 January 1904 · page 1

Ring a ding ding I and ring a ding ding! play-time is over, it’s time to go in, Ring-a-ding dong I and ring-a-ding-dong! please learn your lesson, its not very long…

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Married School Teachers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 3
Also in The Age

A CORRESPONDENT writing to the Daily Telegraph front the country expresses astonishment at the fact that in his town the husband of the…

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Presbyterian Sunday-school

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

The annual picnic was held in the police paddock on New Year’s Day. The children numbering about 80 met at the Manse, Wilson-Street, and marched to the ground…

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Social Moods School Girls

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

DEAN PIGOU once visited a school in New York, and was asked to put some question to the girls in arithmetic:-- I asked them to…

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Strictly Schoolastic

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 4

THE following are a sample of communications received by teachers in the public schools of Philadelphia:-- "Teacher-- I dink you are a fool, you…

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Braidwood Public School

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 2

The tender of Mr. W. A. Kershaw at £20, has been accepted for repairs to the Superior Public School at Braidwood…

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Schoolboy Mineowners

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 4

On one of the last steamers to leave Alaska before ice shuts in the Territory for the long winter nights, there returned to the United States the two youngest goldminers who ever…

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Schoolboy’s Examination Gems

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 4

Adults obtain a certain amount of amusement From the “howlers” which are committed by schoolboys at their examination?, and there is a fund of humour in a…

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A Red Serge School Frock

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 1

The frock for a little girl sketched herewith is a pretty model for serge, and also makes up charmingly in pale blue fierce. I have seen two little school frocks built…

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Novel School in Paris for English Girls

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 4

An English boarding-school has just been established io Aute[?]il, the suburb of Paris most effected as a residence quarter by rich English and American families…

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“Done” by School-children

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 2

“When I was running a circus,” said the retired showman, “I never lost an opportunity of advertising. I always had my eye on the main…

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The Public School

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

The many friends of Mr. A. E. Hall, the popular headmaster of the Braidwood Superior Public School, will learn with regret that for some days he has been…

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School Picnic

The Age · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 3

AN enjoyable outing was afforded the school children of Duntroon on Saturday last, when about one hundred put in an appearance at a picnic promoted by Mr. W. Rolfe,…

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A Schoolgirl’s Escapade

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1904 · page 2

A boarding school girl whose father is a well-to-do squattier on the Murrumbidgee,” has been discovered in Sydney masquerading as a youth, and has been sent back to…

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Queanbeyan and District Schoolboys Easter Tour to Sydney. (By One of Them)

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 2

The eleven boys chosen by Mr. J. S. O’Hara and public school teachers from those entitled by exemplary conduct to tour Sydney during the Easter holidays…

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In a Board School

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 2

One day at school, says a schoolmaster, I gave a boy a problem in algebra, and, although it was comparatively easy, he could not do it. I remarked-- 'You ought to be ashamed of [?]…

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The Barden of School Holidays

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 2

Mothers in Sydney, says "Gerdan," have been complaining during the past week at having all their children at home. It has been a week off at all the public schools. The teachers have been…

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The Convent Schools Concert

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

ON Wednesday night drew a packed audience. Not only the spacious floor, but the capacious gallery also, were thronged for the occasion. The…

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St. Benedict's Convent Schools. Annual Concert

The Age · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

An annual function which illicts he widest patronage of any periodical entertainment in Queanbeyan is that of St. Benedict's Convent Schools. In the syllabus of these schools…

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