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Schools, 1899

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Australian School Books

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 12

Messrs. William Brooks and Co. send to this office a percol of their educational books, now used or about to be brought into use in the Public schools of this colony. We have two primers, live…

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The Sunday School International Lesson. Sunday, January 15, 1899. Christ's First Miracle. John ii. 1-11. Golden Text (John ii. 11).—"His disciples believed on Him." Jesus and Marriage

The Methodist · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 10

The imagination of the world has always been arrested by the fact that our Lord's first recorded…

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Publishing Enterprise. Departure in the Production of School Books

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 4

It is rather refreshing in these days, when so many are heard crying in the wilderness that no Australian industry can flourish except as a sort of hot-house plant, that requires protecting from…

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Marist Brothers' School, Parramatta

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 11

During the year just concluded the record of successes of the Parramatta Marist Brothers' School has been quite up to the standard of past years. Three students were successful at…

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The New School Books. Competitions for Scholars

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1899 · page 12

The issue of a new series of educational books by Messrs. William Brooks and Coin connection with the public School system of the colony should mark a new ear…

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Nautical School-ship Sobraon. During the Holidays

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1899 · page 16

The general consensus of opinion amongst the youngsters who live on the Sobraon is that a very merry Christmastide has been spent, and that a good augury for the New…

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Australian School Books. Enterprising City Firm of Publishers

The Australian Star · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 7

Messrs. William Brooks and Co., educational publishers, of Sydney and Brisbane, publish interesting particulars to-day, in our advertising columns, of their annual…

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The Oxley Murder. the Suspected Schoolmaster

Evening News · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday Afternoon.—Wilson, the schoolmaster, who is wanted at Ipswich, on a shocking charge, has been traced aboard the, steamer Rockton, which left Brisbane for Melbourne…

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Publishing Enterprise. Departure Tn the Production of School Books

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 3

It is rather refreshing in these days, when so many are heard crying in the wilderness that no Australian industry can flourish except as a sort of…

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Australian School Books

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 3

Messrs. William Brooks and Co. send to this office a parcel of their educational hooks now used or about to be brought into use in the Public…

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Visit of Victorian Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1899 · page 7

A representative cricket match between teams representing the teachers of the Victorian state Schools and the teachers of the Maitland and Newcastle Public schools combined took place, under the…

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Cookery in Victorian Schools. An Appointment From N. S. Wales

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 January 1899 · page 6

For some time past classes for instructing girls in plain cookery have been established in connection with the educational system of New South Wales at centres of population…

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Young Ladies' Boarding School. a Good Position

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 4

On the North Shore line, about 12 miles from Sydney, some 650 feet above the sea level, stands the charming little suburb of Wahroonga. It is…

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Cricket. Victorian Teachers v. Electric Telegraph Department

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 6

The Victorian team of public school teachers who are now on a visit to Sydney played the last of a series of matches which had been arranged on the Hampden Park Oval yesterday, when they met a…

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Our Letter Box. School Prizes—their Use and Their Abuse

The Catholic Press · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 19

Sir,—The interminable lists of prizes-winners published by most schools at the recent Christmas break ups is not commendable to thinking minds, or to those who…

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Re-Opening of Schools

The Catholic Press · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 11

In our advertising columns will be found notification of the days of the resumption of studies of various colleges and convents. The Convent of the Immaculate Conception…

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Manly Industrial School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 17

CHRISTMAS was celebrated with the usual festivities. There was Midnight Mass, at which the school choir sang portions of Butler's Mass in A. The singing of the "Adeste Fedeles" was particularly…

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The First Australian Summer School

The Methodist · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 4

The Summer School of the Australian Students' Christian Union held at Mornington, near Melbourne, during the week December l5th to 22nd, 1898,…

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The Sunday School International Lesson. Sunday, January 22, 1899. Christ and Nicodemus. John iii, 1-16

The Methodist · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 10

GOLDEN TEXT (John iii. 16).—"For God f loved the world, that' He gave His on begotten Son, that whosoever believeth Him should not perish, but have eve…

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The New School Books

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 6

We have received from William Brooks and Co., five of the latest issues in the new Australian series, which has already been fully noticed in our columns. The present instalment comprises…

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