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Shows & fairs, 1911

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Fatal Show Slide. Three Killed, Ten Missing

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 8

VANCOUVER, Tuesday Evening.—A serious snow slide has occurred in Ulah. Three persons were killed, and ten are missing…

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The Surf Rescuers. Coming Athletic Carnival. a Night of Champions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 9

The grand athletic carnival which Mr. Hugh Ward is arranging for the benefit of Harold Baker and Jim Clarken, the life-savers, has begun to take shape…

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The Moving. Picture Show Gas, Water, and Air

The Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 4

"Gas is now so much used in manufacture and for domestic purposes as to be almost as essential as air or water," remarked the chairman of the Australian Gaslight Co. at…

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Raising That Thousand for the Coogee Rescuers. Mr. Hugh "Ward's Activity. the Stadium Carnival on

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 9

The movement initiated by Mr. Hugh Ward, the well-known actor-manager, for publicly memorialising the life-saving performances of Messrs. Harold Baker and James darken at…

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A Trio of Adept Swimmers. Selected to Represent the N.s.w. League at Adelaide's Big Carnival Next Month

Referee · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 8

MISS GLADYS TATE. MISS ALICE PEARCE. MISS NELLIE MEADS. —See Swimming Notes…

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Mummer Memoirs. the Veteran Tom King, Remin[?] — an Old Circus Bill — Tom Nunn, Afterwards of the [?] — "Lilliputian Tom" — the Record Horse Leap — Ye Olde Engly[?] Paire — Richardson's Show. No. 152

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 3

The veteran, Tom King, writes: — " Dear Hayseed, — I am sending you a curiosity from an old bill of Rowe's circus, Melbourne, 1854: —…

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The Kiama Show

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 13

The Kiama Show was opened on Thursday. The day was wet, and the water and easterly gale seriously interfered with the arrangements. The, effects of the extraordinary…

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Blind Street-singers. They Demand Fair-treatment

The Sun · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 4

The suggestion that the Government should take steps to make street collecting by blind people punishable has raised a good deal of indignation among a number of blind…

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Empire Sports Carnival. at Coronation Time. Likely Australasian Team

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 9

Some months hack, when Mr. W. Henry, the Royal Life-saving Society, met the representatives of several sporting bodies of this State, and brought forward a proposal to the…

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The Moving Picture Show Burying for Love

The Sun · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 4

There is certainly no accounting for tastes. Fred Fox, of Botany, likes to consort with venomous reptiles, and many others prefer to take their pleasure in equally grim lines…

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Glougester Agricultural Society

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 8

At last meeting of the Gloucester Agricultural Society a letter was road from Mr. Theo, M. Hooke, offering [?] 6s, as a special prize from C. A…

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[?]Undaroo P. A. and H. Revived

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 8

Recently a public meeting was held in Gundaron, N.S.W., for the purpose of considering the question of reviving the local P.A. and [?] Association. Mr…

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Union of Show Societies

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 6

The effort made by the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales to induce the different pastoral and agricultural…

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Cycling and Motoring. B. and B. Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 12

The Tramway Department has arranged for a special service of trams to be run to the Sports Ground from Circular Quay and Railway-square on Monday evening next for the B. and B. cycle and motor cycle race…

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The Moving Picture Show "Nemesis."

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 4

The long arm of coincidence reached out last night and touched Mr. Holman with its long, finger in a very, very tender spot. At the Labour Conference [?] Rae moved…

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A Famous Newcastle Fair. Birgain Prices at Scott's, Limited

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 14

I could honestly recommend the goods and prices at Scott's, Limited, Newcastle, as they stood before their big sale; now that this fair is…

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A Duty on Imported Fruit. Fruitgrowers Want Fair Treatment

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 1

Mr. C. Churchhill Tucker, Beecroft, N.S.W., writes.—-I have been engaged in the healthful and delightful industry of fruit growing for many years,…

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Exhibition Flight. by Royal Command. Mr. Sopwith at Windsor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Tom Sopwith —who recently won the Baron de Forest prize of £4000 for the longest distance covered by a British subject in a…

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Commonwealth Show. Movement in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 9

At the annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria to-day the chairman (Major C. M. Campbell) said the society had not lost sight of the desirablity of…

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Kiama Show. a Splendid Muster of Cattle

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 8

The Kiama show—the principal exhibition of stock on the South Coast of N.S.W.—was opened last Thursday under the most disagreeable of weather…

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