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Shows & fairs, 1897

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

Local News. Church of England. The Grand Fancy Fair

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 December 1897 · page 2

AT 4 p.m. yesterday, Mr. E. H. Land, mayor of Queanbeyan, formally opened at the Protestant Hall, Queanbeyan, a project having for its object the augmentation of…

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Women. What Great Thinkers Have Said About the Fair Sex

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 2

Some men cheat at cards; all men cheat in love.-Mme. Deluzy. No woman is all sweetness; even the rose has thorns.-Mme. Recamier…

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The Fancy Fair

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 December 1897 · page 2

THE three days' fancy fair in aid of the parochial fund of the Church of England, which closed on Saturday night, was successful from a financial point of view, the…

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