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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1909

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

Methodist Flower Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 August 1909 · page 2

ON Wednesday last a few of the members of the congregation met to discuss the holding of the annual flower show in connection with the Methodist Church, the date of…

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Exodus of Fair Women. Great Migration From New York

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 August 1909 · page 6

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

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Late for the Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 1

They were gettian ready for the theatre. It was 7.30 p.m, and he had finished dressing, while she was trying on the third hat. She turned to her husband…

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The Exhibition of Raferty

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 4

Joe Rafferty was in London just a month and by that time he was one of the most miserable of all the tolling millions of that city…

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All's Fair in War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1909 · page 4

"A tenderfoot once visited Tin Can," said a Westerner, "and watched with Interest the poker play. From saloon to saloon he passed…

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Revision of Show Schedule

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1909 · page 2

A MEETING of ladies is called by the committee of the P. and A. Society at purpose of assisting the committee in revising the show schedule. The…

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Flying Machines. a Great Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 5

Germany's theory that the exhibition of the future is the specialty show as distinguished from the Exposition Universelle of the past will be splendidly…

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Art Treasures Burnt. Fire at Milan Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1909 · 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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Form at the Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 3

Show-yard form is a source of unexampled perplexity to the expert as well as to the tyro. The vagaries of showyard ju[?]ing are not all explicable by…

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Agricultural Show Subsidies

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 6

ANSWERING a series of questions asked by Mr. Nielsen, in the Legislative Assembly one night last week, the Minister for Agriculture gave information as…

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Close of the Racing Carnival

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1909 · page 2

THE Metropolitan Spring racing carnival doted od Saturday, and we arc now having a return of the visitors from this district who bait their steps citywards to participate in the excitement that…

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A City Actually Attacked by Airship. Confetti Bombs Show How Easily Real Explosives Could Destroy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 October 1909 · page 3

To demonstrate how easily a fortified city could be destroyed by bombs dropped from airships at night, Mr. Roy Knabensbue sailed…

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Fair Play

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · 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; "I was down in Louisiana last month…

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The Braidwood Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

THE Committee of the P. and A. Society met on Thursday morning. Mr. J. McDowall occupied the chair. The only [?] done of any importance was the appointment of Judges…

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A Successful Flower Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The Presbyte ian Flower Show and Bazaar at Moruya established a record for that annual even. The takings amounted to £89 18s 6d. The expenses reached only £5 13s 6d, leaving a net credit balance…

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Anglican Flower Show

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 December 1909 · page 2

THE Church of England Flower Show and Bazaar, to be held in Match next, promises to surpaes anything of the kind that has been held in Braidwood for years past. Flower cultivation…

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Sydney Show, 1905. Honour to a Goulburn Tradesman. (Extract from Goulburn Herald, 19th April, 1905.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 2

WHEN an important society like the Carriage and Waggon Builders' Association of Australasia selects a man out of the entire population of this and adjoining States to act as…

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