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Shows & fairs, 1937

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Coolamon Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 8

The Coolamon show will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 31 and September 1. Prize money totals £276 and there will be many handsome…

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Coolamon Carnival To-morrow

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 6

All arrangements for the holding of the Rugby League football knockout carnival at the Coolamon Showground to-morrow, are well in hand and, given…

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At Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 8

The handicraft demonstration being organised by the Riverina group of the Country Women's Association promises to be one of the most interesting…

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Show Races End Carnival M.t.c. Meeting on Friday and Saturday. Seventy-nine Horses Engaged

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 14

The Show Race meeting of the Murumbidgee Turf Club will be a fitting termination to the carnival week, and in addition to visitors for…

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Show Weeks Special Attractions Show Night Amusements at the Capitol

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 3

The management of the Capitol Theatre is catering for visitors to Wagga for the carnival week. For Tuesday and Wednesday (matinees…

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Barton's Follies Show Week Attraction

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 3

Coming direct from Brisbane, where they have Just completed a most successful six Weeks season, Barton's Follies make their…

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Albury Show Races Big Programme

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 14

The Albury Racing club hag arranged a big programme for its Show, Race. Meeting on Friday and Saturday, September 10 and 11, and for…

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Greyhound Racing Wagga Show Meetings

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 12

The Wagga Greyhound Racing Club will conduct two meetings during the Wagga show week, racing, on both Thursday and Friday nights of next…

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­­­­­­­Wagga Show Carnival Week Will Set New Standards Nearly 600 Entries in Sheep Classes Five Big Entertainment Companies for Night Pleasure

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 2

The preparation for the Wagga Show of these times calls for considerable planning ahead and very active work in the weeks leading up to the Carnival. The Show opens to the public on Tuesday next and continues…

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For Show Nights Cole's "New Varieties'"

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 3

Reports to hand from Kalgoorlie. Ballarat, Broken flill and Newcastle --centers in which Coles' "New Varieties" have recently played…

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Special Show Issue and Racing Features

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 1

Next Saturday's issue of the "Express" will contain a full and complete report of this Wagga Show, and M.T.C…

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St. Bernard Dog at Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 7

A giant St. Bernard dog from Switzerland will be one of the most interesting exhibits at the Wagga Showgrounds next week. Only by report…

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Jimmy Sharman and Troupe Coming for Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 7

An announcement that Jimmy Sharman and his troupe of boxing and wrestling celebrities will visit the Wagga show next week is music to the…

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Wagga Show All Arrangements Completed Great Fixture Prediotep Postal and Traffic Arrangements

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 4

Rapidly the 73rd annual show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association draws on, and now three days only remain for this great…

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Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 4

Some idea of the vast amount of work that has to be done at the Wagga show is gained from the fact that this year more than 30 Judges will be…

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Wagga Show

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 6

Record entries were received for this year's Wagga show, which begins to-morrow, and extra accommodation had to be provided for them. This year…

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Wagga Show Gates

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 4

The Wagga Show committee announces In this issue that, except to members, no pass out checks will be Issued during the show days, at the…

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Wagga Show Meetings

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 7

The Wagga Greyhound Racing Club will conduct two meetings during Wagga show week, and will race on both Thursday and Friday nights of…

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Show Week Attractions "Love on the Run" at the Capitol

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 6

Joan Crawford and Clark Gable make a welcome reappearance together in "Love on the Run," the main attraction at the Capitol Theatre…

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Great Paris Exhibition Wonderful Huge Undertaking on Banks of the Seine Britain Poorly Represented Australia Misses Splendid Opportunity PARIS, July 8

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 2

After attending the Coronation ceremonies in London, her description of which appeared last week, Miss Aileen Alpen, our European correspondent, crossed the Channel to France. She now presents our readers with a fine pen…

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