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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1871

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Manaro Bastoral Show

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 January 1871 · page 2

THIS took place on Wednesday, 11th January, at Cooma, and the weather being propitions, the show was well attended. As the first public exhibition, under the…

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Opening of the International Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 July 1871 · page 3

The first of "a series of International Exhibitions of the fine arts and of industry" was opened on Monday, May 1, at South Kensington, by the Prince of Wales…

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International Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 17 August 1871 · page 4

THE Exhibition has now had a fair trial, and has come out of it with flying colours, the total numbers of visitors for May being about 230,000. The prospects…

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Mrs Laura D. Fair, Her Husbands, Divorces, and Crimes

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 17 August 1871 · page 3

NEVER was time better spent than by the twelve men who, in San Francisco, decided the guilt of the Woman who calls herself Laura Fair. For careers less…

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Opening of the Intercolonial Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 31 August 1871 · page 4

THE Metropolitan Exhibition of 1871 was opened at noon on Monday, the 21st instant by his Excellency the Earl of Belmore, President of the Agriculturl Society…

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