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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1909

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Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 April 1909 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon the ladies of the Hospital Ball Committee paid a visit to the new hospital building. There were about fifteen-in the party. Mr…

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The Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1909 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon the ladies of the hospital ball committee paid a visit to the new hospital building. [?] were about 15 in the party Mr…

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Hospital Dance

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 3

This function was hold in the Town Hall on Thursday night, and in was attended by 160 dancers and a full house of spectators. It enjoyed the benefit of…

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Hospital Ball

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 6

A meeting of the committee of the above was held at (Campbell’s Hotel on Tuesday evening last for the purpose of receiving the…

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The Ball

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 2

This happy and brilliant social function was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday night, for which the rooms and the stage had been prepared with masterful…

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Ball at Gunbar

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 2

A dance in aid of the Gunbar Cricket Club was held on Friday night, l6th instant, and proved a great success. Music was gratuitously…

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Fire at a Ball. Twenty Guests Burned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1909 · page 3

From Florence, on 5th March, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— A family dance has ended literally in…

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West's Pictures

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

The first of the monthly tours of West's pictures will take place in the Oddfellows. Hall, Wagga, on Friday and Saturday May 7 and 8. The…

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Wagga Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

A meeting of the committee responsible for the management of the Hospital Ball was held in the Town Hall on Thursday afternoon. There were…

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The Hospital Ball

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the hospital ball was held on Thursday afternoon. There were present: Mesdames Rudd (chair), Bradhurst, Eyles…

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West's Pictures at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 2

By our advertising columns it will be seen that the genuine West's Pictures, from Sydney, will appear in the Oddfellows' Hall next Friday and Saturday…

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West's Pictures

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 May 1909 · page 2

On Friday and Saturday evenings next West's Pictures will make the first of regular monthly visits to Wagga. Mr. T. J. West has won a leading…

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Man's Body Washed Ashore Dressed in Woman's Ball Costume. London, May 3

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1909 · page 2

The body of a man dressed in a woman's ball cesiume and manacled has been washed ashore at Penzance, Cornwall, and has been identified as…

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West's Pictures

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1909 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

In the Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow, and Saturday nights West's Picture Show Company give an interesting entertainment. Amongst the chief…

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West's Pictures

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 2

The above company, which is a branch of Mr. T. J. West's pictures at the Glaciarium, Sydney, showed to a fair house in the Town Hall on…

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Springwood. Race Club Ball

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 3

This long talked of event was celebrated in good hospitable and cheerful style on Wednesday the 28th. inst. One of the most…

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Williams' Whisky Concert Horror. Children Maimed and Suffooated Little Ones Piled High in Sistresse Deathtrap. Agonising Scenes

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 7 May 1909 · page 4

Sixteen little children were suffocated and over twenty were injured, in a ter trole crush which occurred on Saturday afternoon at a cinemotograph entertain…

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West's Pictures

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

The Oddfellows' Hall was but sparsely filled last evening, when West's Pictures opened their two-night exhibition. This well-known biograph…

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