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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1909

37 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Why British Horses Are Best. Visitors to the International Horse Show—please Note

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

Every country goes to England for thoroughbreds. All the Best horses in Austria, Australia, America, and the Argentine are bred from…

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New York Horse Show. Golden Shoe-heels

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4

The wealthiest people of New York, conventionally styled the "Four Hundred," are revelling in publicity this week, cabled the New York…

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The Amazing Fair

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 February 1909 · page 3

The Avena Castle, from the Cape, had struck Southampton late on the afternoon of a dull November day, and now the boat "special," freighted with an…

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Gunning Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 February 1909 · page 2

GREAT preparations are going forward for the coming show. The grounds and buildings have been greatly improved. The main building has been largely…

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The Gunning Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 March 1909 · page 2

THE Gunning Show took place on Thursday and Friday, under unfavorable weather conditions, which con[?]nued until Friday afternoon. In the…

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Braidwood Annual Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 March 1909 · page 2

The annual show of the Braidwood P. A. and H. Association was opened on Wednesday morning last in delightful weather. The arrangements had been perfected by the…

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Braidwood Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 March 1909 · page 2

THE Braidwood P., A., and H. Association opened its annual show on Wednesday in fine though cloudy weather. The president (Mr. R. G. Hassell)…

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Fair Wage Clause. LONDON, March 9

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 2

In the House of Commons last night, Mr. L. Harcourt, First Commissioner for Works, announced, in reply to Mr. John Ward (Labour), that he had cancelled a big carting contrast became the…

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Fair Hair at Eton. a Curious Pact

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 4

Anthropometry, a feature of a discussion at the Merchant Taylors' School of the Association of Public School Science Masters on January…

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Yass Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 2

THE Yass P. and A. Association opened its thirty-eighth annual exhibition on Wednesday in fine, warm weather. The attendance was very fair. The…

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St. Andrew's Flower Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 March 1909 · page 5

The annual Flower Show and Sale of Work in connection with St. Andrew's Church of England was commenced is the Literary Institute on Thursday, and…

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The Coming Royal Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 3

Our friends in the country will just now be giving a good deal of thought to the above event, which bulks largely in the experience of…

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London Shire Horse Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 3

The British agricultural newspapers contain lengthy reports of the last annual Shire Horse Show, which took place in London at the end of February…

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Not 18 Carat. "Patter" on the Show Ground

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 2

Frederick O'Neill, 26, auctioneer, was churned at the Water Police Court with imposing upon Willism Muido [?] by means of a false representation that two gill chains…

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Not Fair to Judas

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 2

In the House of Representatives on Friday the Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), referring to what he termed Mr. Deakin's inconsistency, stated that some mention had…

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A Fair Way

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 June 1909 · page 6

An Irishman, bring challenged to fight a duel, and knowing his opponent to be a crack she, while he himself was a very indifferent one, called at his antagonist's house the day…

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Outside the Exhibition

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 3

A yokel drew up in a four-wheeler opposite the main entrance or the Franco-British Exhibition in London and having alighted, timidly…

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A Fair Exchange

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 July 1909 · page 3

A man who had purchased some currant buns at a bakery was distressed, on starting to ea one, to find that it contained a fly. Returning to the bakery, he made an indignant…

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Exodus of Fair Women. Great Migration From New York

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 August 1909 · page 4

Everybody who saw the liners Adriatic and Mauretania sail for England yesterday, said the New York correspondent of the "Dally Mail' on May 27, with…

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Great White Plague. Tuberculosis Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 August 1909 · page 7

Mr Burns. President of the Local Government Board, opened the Tuberc losis Exhibition at Whitechapel A Gallery on Wednesday, June 2 (says…

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