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Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1902

2,085 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 105

Stage. Song, and Show

The Australian Star · Tuesday 4 February 1902 · page 3

Excellent business is being done at the Empire The [?]atre, where the amusing Irish musical comedy "Muldoon's Picnic" has been causing unlimited merriment. Owing however to the…

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Tenacious Free Staters. Show Plenty of Fight. Heliographing Interrupted by Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--With the exception of a few hundred in the south, all of the Free Staters in the field are confined to tho northeastern portion of the Orange River Colony…

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Automobile Exhibition at Paris. Utilitarian Motors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1902 · page 8

The Paris correspondent of the "Times" supplies that paper with the following account of the International Automobile Exhibition opened in that city on December 10:—…

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Royal Agricultural Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1902 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

A largely attended meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales was held yestrday at the rooms, Hunter-street. Mr. F. E. Winchocombe, M.L.A., presided. The executive…

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Liverpool Show

Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1902 · page 3

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Afternoon.—The Liverpool Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Show opened to-day under favorable auspices. The weather was threatening, but it…

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Liverpool Show. First Day. Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1902 · page 8

The Liverpool Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society's fifth annual show was held to-day under most favourable auspices, delightful weather, the result of last night's change, prevailing…

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Wollongong Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 7 February 1902 · page 6

On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week the Wollongong Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society held its twenty-first annual show. Like…

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Fair Exchange. a New Back for an Old One.—how It Is Done in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1902 · page 3

The "back question" is one that interests everybody old and young. Few indeed are they whose back has never had an ache or pain. "Old backs" and "young backs" are more than often "bad…

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Berry Agricultural Society

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 16

In connection with the Berry Agricultural Society special prizes were offered hy the Berry Central Butter Factory, milk and butter test, one cow, grass fed, have been awarded as follow:—…

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A Fair, Beautiful Skin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 5

SULPHOLINE LOTION clears off Pimples, Blemishes, Irritation, Redness, Roughness, Skin Dis[?]gurements. Shilling Bottles of Sulpholine, the English Skin Lotion.—Advt…

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The Kiama Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 21

1.—The Committee. 2.—Judging Bulls for the Championship. 3.—The Cattle Yards. 4.—James Brother's Champion Bull. 5.—Thos. James's "Daisy," First Champion Cow of Show, and First Champion Aged Dairy Cow. 6.—Miller Brother's "Barney," First Dairy Bull. 7.—Lindsay Brothers' "Honeycomb Lass," First Dairy Cow. S.—J. W. Cole's "Comet," First Shorthorn Bull, Milking Strain. (Photos by Samuel Cocks, Kiama)…

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The Easter Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 36

It having been currently reported that the Railway Commissioners intended to raise the rate for carriage of exhibits, to and from the Royal Agricultural Society's. Show, the secretary…

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Preparing for the Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 18

About two weeks before the birds are to be put in the show room it is well to put each bird in a separate coop. Give plenty of straw and keen the coop clean. During this time the bird…

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At the Smithfield Show, England

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 350

JOHN PENN'S LINCOLN LAMBS. First and Cup for Best Lincoln Sheep in Show. HIS MAJESTY THE KING'S SHORTHORN STEER. First and Cup for Best Young Steer in Show…

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Liverpool A., H. and I. Society's Show. First Day

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 4

THE above society's fifth annual show was opened in the grounds adjacent to the Liverpool Town Hall on Wednesday last under most favorable auspices, delightful weather…

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Swimming. Rockdale Swimming Club. Championship Carnival. 500 Yards' Championship Won by Read

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 377

One of the most successful carnivals, under the aupices of the Rockdale Swimming Club, and patronage of the New South Wales A.S.A., was brought off at Hewett's Brighton Baths, Lady…

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Stage, Song, and Show. " Ben Hur" This Evening. Drama, Comedy, and Vaudeville

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 5

There are changes at all the theatres this evening, with the exception of the Theatre Royal, which will remain closed until Mr. George Musgrove stages "Aladdin."…

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Give Us a Show. Lyceum Theatre

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1902 · page 2

THERE was a change of bill at the Lyceum last evening, when Herbert Leonard's four-act drama, "On Active Service," was produced. There have been many dramas written round…

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"Salvarmy" Schlosser a Christian Cook's Courtship. Flirting with Fair Flo. and Fingering Her Jewels

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1902 · page 6

CHARLES SCHLOSSER, aged, aged 30, and by profession a cook, should have sought among his female acquaintances either a W.T.C.A. girl, with the white ribbon of purity on her shoulder…

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