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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1906

126 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 7

The Calf Path. [Recitation—Hollan I and Tankey's prize—Methodist Flower Show.]

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 2

ONE day through the primeval wood A calf walked home, as good calves should…

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About the Show

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 2

WE explained in our last issue that the Committee had seen fit to deny to this paper the ordinary press privileges in…

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About the Show

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 4

WE explained in our last issue that the Committee had seen fit to deny to this paper the ordinary press privileges in…

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QUEANBEYAN P. AND A. Association. Fourteenth Annual Show. Officals: President—Mr. James Cunningham; Vice-Presidents. Messrs. E. E. Hudson and E. G. Crace; hon. treasurer, Mr. A. H. Croaker: Auditors, Messrs. J. H. Hincksman and R. J. S. Fallick; Committee, Messrs. E. G. Atkinson, P. Blackall, G. C. P. Circuitt, J. T. Collett, A. J. Cunningham, G. T. Dudley, W. S. Hill, J. Feagan, A. Garraway, R. Hayes, N. H. Gibbs, J. Knox, J. McCarthy, A. J. McDonald, Walter McIntosh, C. H. McKeahnie, R. Moore, E. O. Moore, G. L. McInnes, A. W. Moriarty, A. C. McPherson, Colonel Ryrie, T. E. Woodger

The Age · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 2

THE fourteenth annual show of the above -named association was opened yesterday in magnificent weather. The weather during the early part of the…

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Fair Play

The Age · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 3

A group of American commercial travellers were telling yarns on the subject of hospitality, when one of them took up his parable thus…

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The Girl Who Did Nothing. Fable of Fair and Unfair

The Age · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 3

"And what do you go in for, Sir John?" said Mrs Mildmay across the lunch-table. "Oh, I'll take claret, thanks!" I said,…

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Queanbeyan P. and A. Association. Fourteenth Annual Show

The Age · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 8

The following are the awards, in connection with the late Show, which were unavoidably held over from last issue SECTION N—PLAIN & FANCY WORK…

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A Deaf and Dumb Show

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 1

They're speechless when they quarrel. And bitter is life's cup, They haven't time to say a word When they are making up…

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Belligerent Beauties. Fight at a Show

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 5

A desperate fight lately occurred at a beauty, show at Elk Lick, Pennsylvania. One of -the two successful beasties is dying, while half a dozen rivals have…

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Poetry. Fair and False

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 2

I stand at evening in the solemn shadows Thrown by the elms upon the velvet fawn, And, gasing o'er the sunset-gilded meadows. Think back on happy dreams forever gone…

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Not Fair

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4

This is the latest child story:-Mollie had been to church for the first time, and on her return home her grandmother asked her what she…

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Art Treasures Burnt. Fire at Milan Exhibition

The Age · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 3

The Building of Decorative Art at the Milan Exhibition was destroyed by fire on 3rd August, in consequence of a defect in the electric light wiring…

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Flower Show

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 2

The Methodist Flower Show will be officially opened on Thursday next. Entries for all classes in sections A. to F, and classes 5 and 11…

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Methodist Flower Show

The Age · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

THE ninth annual Flower Show in connection with the Queanbeyan Methodist Church was opened in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday last in…

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Methodist Flower Show. a Great Success

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

THE night annual flower show in aid of the Queanbeyan Methodist Circuit Fund was held on Wednesday and Thursday in the Protestant Hall…

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Methodist Flower Show. a Kuge Success

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

THE Methodist Flower Show was formally opened on Wednesday afternoon by the Mayor (Ald. Atkinson) in the absence…

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A Show Meeting

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 2

FROM our local contemporaries we learn that a special meeting of the P. and A. Association was held on Saturday to consider a notice of…

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Servants' Carnival. Scenes in Shuttered Mansions. Maids in Mistress's Robes

The Age · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 3

When a lady known to be at Trouville was apparently seen driving in Hyde Park, in the middle, of August, a friend thought it was an apparition, but…

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C. Of. E. Flower Show

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 2

For several weeks the ladies of St. Andrew’s Church have been busily engaged (with Miss G. Elliott as energetic secretary), preparing for an exhibition of…

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St. Andrew's Flower Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 2

The Annual Flower show in connection with the Church of England, which is always well patronised by the public and draws a good gathering of folks, both of the town and country came off with its…

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