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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1919

80 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Fair and Forty

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 3

Colonel House, President Wilson's right-hand man, possesses a ready wit. Just before leaving Washington in order to be present at the Versailles…

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The Fair Sex the Latest Trimming

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 3

As trimming on the gowns jet embroidery is very new and silk embroidery is scarcely seen. Wool on the thinnest of fabric, such as net…

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The Fair Sex What Massage Will Do for You

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 3

Busy women have neither the time nor money to waste in beauty parlours, but they well know the value of a well-groomed head of hair and a smooth…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 June 1919 · page 3

Looking about me "on this great stage of fools," as the mad King Lear phrased it, I see with a queer jumble of…

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The Fair Sex Children's Clothes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 3

As every one knows, the smaller the child the more attention it demands, and this somewhat applies also to the tiniest person's clothes…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 2

Whatever may be the cause, I have a particular objection to mobs and the dust they kick up. A witty Anglican clergyman once said that a mob was a mob if it…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 June 1919 · page 2

Listen to this, all you good Australians who do not wish your country to be transformed into another Russia; and do not forget it:…

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The Fair Sex Health Versus Fashion

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 3

The road of fashion is not always the road that leads to good health, for both women and men suffer a great many minor ailments through the…

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Record Cat Show

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

No less than 160 cats were recorded at a cat show held under the auspices of the Victorian Poultry and Kennel Club. The cats were classified according to breed,…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 July 1919 · page 4

Jellicoe the renowned! Jellicoe of Jutland fame! Jellicoe the man among men! He who in the immortal struggle of the nations, great…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 July 1919 · page 6

So the beaten bullies of Berlin have had to toe the mark at last and sign the peace terms. I fancy that in this final phase of their…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 August 1919 · page 2

Bravo, David Hall! I would like to pat the ex-Attorney-General on the back. The man who can cheerfully throw up one of the highest and least troublesome…

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The Most Patient People. Must Show Annoyance at Times

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 August 1919 · page 6

Everybody has their hour of trouble. But, people having an irritation of the skin Have many hours of trouble…

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Proposed Assistance to Sydney Sheep Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 August 1919 · page 2

The President said he was very sorry to read that the Sydney Sheep Show was gradually going back, and that if the lack of support of sheepbreeders continued it…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 August 1919 · page 2

It takes some little activity and attention to keep pace with the checkered ways of the disorganised Labor organisations. You never…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 2

The Ministerial tour through the rich North Coast districts has been a series of triumphs. Mr. Holman, and Sir George Fuller, with the…

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Show Smoke Concert

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 2

Yesterday at Messrs. Everson and Calthorpe's rooms, Messrs. A. J. McDonald, A. J. Studdy, T. E. Woodger, W. E. Gale, A. H. Coppin, R. J. Everson, H. J…

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Horse Parade, Sheep and Poultry Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 2

The schedule of prizes for the above to be held under the auspices of the local P. & A. Association in the Queanbeyan showground on the 17th September, will…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 August 1919 · page 2

"Thou seest. this wide and universal theatre presents more useful pageants than this scene wherein we play." So spoke the banished Duke in that…

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The Passing Show

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 9 September 1919 · page 4

Australia has a real hero at last— a great man in a small compass. Big-brained, too big seemingly for that small frame, but with the hear…

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