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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1907

112 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 6

In School

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 1

Ten girls in a composition class were told to write a telegram such as would be suitable to send home in case of a railway, accident while…

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The Suffragistes. From the Schoolboy’s Views

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 3

The normal boy is not keenly interested in politics, and does not discuss with any enthusiasm such problems as “Should Women be Admitted to…

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The Gentle Octagon. a Schoolboy's Idea

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 October 1907 · page 3

"It seems to me," said Mrs Wakeman, pausing on the side-walk to let the grade pupils, just released from bondage, rush by, "that school little !…

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The Health of Children Sir Lauder Brunton on School Hygiene

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 6

An important International Congress (the second) on School Hygience has been sitting at the Imperial Institute this week under the…

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The Supply of Teachers

The Age · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 3

REFERENCE has been made to the number of schools in various parts of the country which have been closed owing to the want of teachers. From various…

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The Gentle Octagon. a Schoolboy's Idea

The Age · Tuesday 22 October 1907 · page 5

"It seems to me," said Mrs Wakeman, pausing on the side-walk to let the grade pupils, just released from bondage, rush by, "that school…

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On Corns. a Schoolboy's Views

The Age · Tuesday 5 November 1907 · page 5

Corns are of two kinds—vegetable and animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows, and animal corn grows on toes. There are several kinds of corn; there is the…

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Esslingen's Children. a German School

The Age · Tuesday 5 November 1907 · page 5

Margaret M'Millan writes in the "Daily News' of 5th September:—Their home is in a valley surrounded by vine-clad hills, hills eloquent of patient human…

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A Chapter of Examinations. School Scholarships, Teachers, and the Civil and Municipal Services

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 November 1907 · page 6

The announcement of a number of important public competitive examinations, to be conducted at Sydney and various country centres, has recently…

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Miscellaneous. The School Books of Our Great Grandfathers. (Copyright.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 November 1907 · page 1

There are no more curious relics of the past than the school books of Old England which by some miracle escaped the destructive hands of youth,…

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Eye and Brain. in the Swiss Schools

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1907 · page 3

The frontier of Switzerland on the German side is very sharply defined. Leaving Mublhausen, which is still the Kaiser's country, in spirit as well as…

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Sunday School Picnic

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 2
Also in The Age

THE annual picnic in connection with St. Stephen's Presbyterian Sunday School was held in the Park on Wednesday afternoon. At 2.30 o'clock…

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Esslingen’s Children. a German School

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 4

Margaret M Millan writes in the “Daily News” of 6th September:— Their home is in a valley surrounded by vine-ciad hills, hills eloquent of patient human…

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On Corns. a Schoolboy’s Views

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 4

Corns are of two kinds — vegetable and animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows, and animal corn grows on toes. There unicorn, Capricorn, popcorn, corn…

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Correspondence. Bywong Subsidised School. [To the Editor.]

The Age · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 2

SIR,—In asking you to give publicity to the enclosed letter, which is of general interest to all the subsidised schools in the State, I also ask you to be kind enough to allot me a…

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Householed Recipes Specially written by Miss Amy Monro, Principal Cookery School, Technical College, Sydney. All Rights Reserved. Breakfast Cookery. Kidneys and Bacon

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 2

Ingredients.--1 ox kidney, 1 onion ¼ lb. bacon, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 teaspoon each of salt and sugar, ½ teaspoonful mustard, chopped parsley, 1…

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E and Brain. in the Swiss Schools

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 4

The frontier of Switzerland on the German side is very sharply defined Leaving Muhlhausen, which is still the Kaiser’s country in spirit as well as…

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The Poor Teacher

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

Alas, for the realisation of the hopes and expectations of the poorly paid teachers, who put their trust is the promises of the ex-Premier…

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Bank Notes for School Books

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

A lad attending the Sydney Grammar School was one of the principals in what turned out to be an amusing experience on Thursday morning…

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