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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1919

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Leg Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 April 1919 · page 2

As a result of the short dress vogue there is said to be much jealously among the Tamworth girls as to who possesses the most symmetrical pair of legs. In…

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Presbyterian Flower Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 April 1919 · page 2

We hear that the members of St. Stephen's Ladies' Guild, are, like the busy bees, improving each shining hour, so that when their Flower Show opens on the 15th…

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The Coming Show. Committee at Work

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 April 1919 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the Queanbeyan P. & A. Association was held on Saturday afternoon to make arrangements for the conduct of the forthcoming…

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Presbyterian Flower Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 April 1919 · page 2

The Presbyterian Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition will be held in the Protestant Hall, Queanbeyan, next Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon and…

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Presbyterian Flower Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 2

The Presbyterian Flower Show will be opened this evening at 7.30 by Major-General Parnell, Commandant, R.M.C., Duntroon. After the opening ceremony,…

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The Fair Sex a Toilet Note

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 April 1919 · page 4

In brushing the teeth, care should be taken to go thoroughly round the edges, and always brush Away from the gums. dislodging foreign deposits…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Friday, April 18, 1919. Presbyterian Annual Floral and Industrial Exhibition

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 April 1919 · page 2

Despite the adverse conditions under which the 1919 efforts of the local Presbyterian Church were put forth, the results were highly satisfactory and to a…

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The Fair Sex Reading on Holidays

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 April 1919 · page 4

To the girl of literary tastes a holiday is a golden, opportunity. But she must not start about it in a hap-hazard way. Determine of a certain…

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No Show. Exhibition Indefinitely Postponed

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 2

A special meeting of the committee of the Pastoral and Agricultural Association, convened by Mr. President McDonald, was held in the Municipal Chambers on…

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Correspondence. "No Show, No 'Flu," (To the Editor.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 2

Sir,—The heading quoted above is that which appears over a paragraph contained in a recent issue of a Blayney newspaper which has come into my hands. The gist…

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The Fair Sex

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 May 1919 · page 4

Velveteen is the most favoured material of the autumn. Velvet hats are bewitching. There is a certain beret style, rather large…

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"No Show, No 'Flu." (To the Editor.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 May 1919 · page 2

Sir,—I beg to disagree with "Patriotic" and say a large number of people in this district are disappointed at the action of the P.A.A. committee in declaring the…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Tuesday, May 6, 1919. Fair Value

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 May 1919 · page 2

In current inquiries respecting the coal and sugar industries, a point of vital interest is the high wage paid to certain classes of…

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The Fair Sex Told by the Finger-tips

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 May 1919 · page 3

Extreme delicacy of the lines of the finger tips—not weakness, but thread[?]cushions, especially of the third fingers—denote an artistic talent…

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The Fair Sex the Sarcastic Age

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 May 1919 · page 4

It is a curious fact that the majority of girls pas through the sarcastic age, and, to their credit be it said, most of them outgrow it. There is a time…

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Cuppacumbalong Sports Carnival. Big Day for Tharwa

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 May 1919 · page 2

On Saturday next Tharwa will be the scene of a monster sports gathering when a very attractive programme of 31 events will be run…

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The Fair Sex Furs

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 3

Furs are very much in evidence, and they will be more so as the weeks go by, and the style impulse is succeeded, by the real necessity for their, use…

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The Most Patient People Must Show Anno[?] [?]s

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 2

Everybody has [?] of trouble. But people hav[?] of the skin have many [?] trouble. Nothing so annoying nothing so irritating…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 2

The life of a Prime Minister, like that of the policeman is not always a happy one. He has to take his gruel along with such glory as may attach to his so exalted…

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Cuppacumbalong Sports Carnival. President, A. G. McKeahnie, Esq; hon. treasurer, C. H. McKeahnie, Esq, J.P.; hon. secretary, Miss Alice Sheedy; committee, Rev. R. Elliott, and Messrs. H. Oldfield, P. J. Sheedy, P. Byrne, J. Tong, J. Fisher, J. Brown, T. Cunningham, P. Cunningham, A. D. Campbell, S. Cleary, H. Noone, D. White, J. Oldfield, W. Fisher, R. Bootes, J. Edlington, W. Bates, R. Harris, S. Gibbs, P. Tiernan, M. Tiernan, P. Kelleher, R. Kerchiner, S. Reid, J. Rustin, T. Green, E. Wright, E. Gregory, W. Masson, P. McDermott; Assistant secretary, Mr. P. E. Gallagher

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 May 1919 · page 2

The threatening weather conditions marred to a great extent the success of the Cuppacumbalong Sports Carnival and Picnic. promoted by the good folk of…

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