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Riverina · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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Scottish Concert. a Successful Entertainment

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 2

There was no room for complaint on the score of attendance at the Scottish concert held in the Oddfellows Hall last evening, the building…

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Scotch Concert

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 4

The crowded house, at the Odd fellows Hall, on Thursday night to greet the Scotch vocalists from Sydney and Melbourne shows the popularity of this…

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Howarde's Pictures and Vaudeville Coy

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 3

MR. Bert Howarde, of the Kate How: arde Coy, will show in the Oddfellows' Hall tonight (Tuesday) and the two following nights (Show nights). Mr…

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Wagga Citizens' Band

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Wagga Citizens' Band was held in the band-room on Monday night. Bandsman L. Homann presided over a full…

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Band Matters

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 4

On Sunday last, the Coolamon Town Band journeyed to Ganmain and discoursed a programme of sacred music on the…

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Howarde's Pictures and Vaudeville Coy

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 2

THIS well-known company will finish a very successful season at Tumut in the Oddfellows' Hall to-night. The show is…

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Warn School of Arts Concert

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 8

The concert and ball in aid of the building fund of the above was held in the Warri wool room on Friday last and was a decided…

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Scientific Items. Telegraphed Pictures

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 4

Nowadays photographs and other pictures can be transmitted over the ordinary telegraph wires as cipher messages. The picture is inserted in…

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School of Arts Concert

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 2

The local amateurs will bring the house down on Wednesday night with the humorous farce " Harmony." This variety entertainment promises to be…

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Church Pictures Theft. Offenders Imprisoned. London, March 4

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 2

The trial of men accused of stealing valuable pictures and ornaments, etc., from churches in France, has been concluded…

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Items of News. Farmers' Fair Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 2

I here was a fairly numerous attendance in the Oddfellows' Hall last evening, when the Farmers' Fair was brought to a conclusion by a…

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The Mangain Ball

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 5

A ball was held in the local hall on Wednesday night last, and was in every sense an unqualified success. Dancing commenced at an…

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Band Workers' Union. Initial Conference

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1908 · page 4

The first conference of the farm and bushworkers union, which was held in the Prototant Hall, Wagga. on Saturday, resulted in the abandonment of…

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St. Patrick's Night Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1908 · page 2

As a fitting conclusion to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day (Tuesday next, March 17), a grand national concert has been arranged to lake place in…

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Two Families Massacred. Midnight Death Struggle. a Band of Robbers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 4

From Rostoff-on-Don the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" of 17th December wrote an 8th December:— Two families were practically…

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School of Arts Concert

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 2

On Wednesday night, thanks to the School of Arts managers, an audience in the Town Hall was treated to an amateur musical entertainment of first-class order;…

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Straight Australian Living Pictures

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 16

COME and see the Living Pictures, said a friend the other night, And he took me to a palace where the scene was gay and bright;…

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The Evening's Celebration. an Enjoyable Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 3

A most enjoyable concert took place in the Oddfellows' Fall in the evening. An attractive programme was arranging and this was no doubt responsible…

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Coolamon Town Band

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 20 March 1908 · page 5

The annual general meeting of subscribers and members of the above band was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Wednesday…

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The Concert

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1908 · page 2

As usual, the concert at night was very largely attended, nearly every chair being occupied. Generally the hall is not adequate for the holding of…

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