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Shows & fairs, 1901

2,239 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 112

Agricultural Shows. Camden A. AND H. Society. Camden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 8

The fifteenth annual show of the Camden A. and H. Society was opened to-day under most favourable circumstances. the attendance was good, and the exhibits in nearly every section were numerous…

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Young Teople's Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 8

A meeting of the Randwick branch of the above, convened by Mrs.S. R. Kennedy, was held in the local Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The Mavoress (Mrs. I. B. Hodgson) presided, and there…

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Quirindi Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 4

Mr. John P. Rogers writes to say that the Quirindi District Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Association intends to hold its show on…

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Bathurst Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 8

Every year the crowd of visitors to the Bathurst Show seems to grow bigger, and the reason of it probably is that the people that ran this great…

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Glen Innes Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 5

A welcome from one good, hospitable soul is quite enough to repay a grateful man for the journeying of a few hundred miles by mail train…

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The Nyngan Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 3

After all, Mr. J. J. Cahill is not leaving Nyngan! He sold out and came to Sydney, and started with the Fanners and Settlers' Co-operative…

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Young People's Industrial Exhibition

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 4

A well-attended meeting of the Young People's Industrial Exhibition (Randwick branch) was held in the Mayor's room at the Randwick Town Hall on Wednesday…

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The Show

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 8

The following completes the list of awards Riven at the annual show of the Nepean District Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society, held last week, and also…

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Commonwealth Show

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 5

The success hitherto gained by having the musical arrangements of the annual Agricultural Show in competent hands has again been recognised by the council, who for the…

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Turn About is Fair Play

The Catholic Press · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 3

This story of the wife of Meissonier, the great French painter, whose work is almost matchless for its delicacy of finish, comes from Paris. Madame Meissonier evidently was…

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Kogarah Public School Carnival

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 54

The fifth annual carnival of the Kogarah Superior Public School was brought off on Saturday afternoon at Hellings's Baths, Sane Souci, in the presence of a fairly large crowd of spectators,…

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Swimming. Cleveland-street School Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 12

The fifth annual carnival of the Cleveland-street Superior Public School Swimming Club takes place at Farmer's Domain Baths this afternoon. The programme is a varied and lengthy one, and includes a 100 yards inter-club…

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Swimming. Cleveland-street Public School Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 12

The Cleveland-street School's annual carnival will take place at Farmer's Baths this afternoon. The programme includes an inter-club handicap, for which the best swimmers in Sydney have entered…

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Newcastle. the Y.M.C.A. Fair. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 10

A new century fair and art exhibition, preparations in connection with which have been in progress for several months past, was opened in the Masonic Hall this afternoon in aid of funds of the Newcastle Young Men's…

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The Goulburn Show. (By Our Special Reporter.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 15

The twentieth annual show of the Goulburn Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society Avas held on the 14th and 15th instant, when the prevailing weather conditions were the worst that…

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The Guessing Competition at the Nepean Show

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 6

About 350 people went in for the guessing competition in which the point was to guess the dead weight (dressed) of the live int cow penned up on the show ground, the first prize being a Singer…

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The Casile Mill Annual Show. Next Wednesday and

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 4

Local people should not need to be reminded that the great annual exhibition of the Castle Hill and District A. and H. Association will bo held on the show ground at Castle Hill…

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The Luddenham Show. To the Editor of the Nepean Times

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 8

Sir,—At the late Luddeuham Show there was, at the end of the second day, a quarrel among several that might have had very serious results. I would not refer to it but that the…

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The Commonwealth Sheep Show. to the Editor of the "Sydney Mail."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 704

Sir,—Your contributor "Lana" states in regard to the above "that whilst the Royal Agricultural Society has put forth all its best machinery in motion to make the first show of the society under the…

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Stage, Sons, and Show. De Rougemont at the Tivoli. "Two Little Drummer Boys."

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 3

What promises to be the "sensation" of to-day's entertainments is the first appearance of Louis de Rougemont, who figured largely before the public some time ago as the…

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