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Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1911

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Visitors' Opinions. a Wonderful Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 13

Always at the show men from the interior and other States associated with other shows foregather with pleasure, and exchange reminiscences. They are the men who possess…

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The National Show

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 12

Each Royal Show seems to renlise about all that expectation can reasonably look for in volume ami quality, yet each in its turn proves "a critique on the last.'' The…

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Lowe's Easter Show

The Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 15

The £50,000 worth of Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Mercery, and Suitings, at the two large stores of Messrs. W. Lowe and Company, provide on inexhaustible source of interest to…

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The Royal Show

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 1

THE Royal Show, which opened yesterday, promises to be the most successful yet held. This is saying a lot, but the great Easter exhibition…

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Sydney Royal Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 29

AGRICULTURAL TROPHIES FROM THE WESTERN DISTRICT AND SOUTH COAST AND TABLELANDS DISTRICTS…

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Cycling Carnival. Racing at Auburn

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 4

It is said that opinions are divided in Auburn as to the wisdom of the late Lang administration in its action towards the improvement of the park. Anyone in the…

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Our Faster Show. a Year's Progress. in Production Amd Useful Arts. Story of the Royal Show. Mammoth Exhibition of Live Stock. Record Judging Day Attendance

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 13

'It's a great show, isn't it?" queried the Sydney man of his companion, a visitor from New Zealand. "Show! Why, it s half a dozen rolled into…

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All Nations' Fair. Over £500 Taken Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 8

The All Nations' Fair went along yesterday with a merry hum, and when the doors closed the organisers were sanguine that they would get within striking distance of their goal--£6000…

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A New Picture Show

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 4

The Ascot Picture Palace, Botany-road, North Botany, was officially opened on Saturday last by the Mayor (Alderman A. Chipman) and the aldermen of North…

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Picture Show After Injury

Globe · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 3

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday. George Gordon, farmer, of "Hillside," Trangie (N.S.W.). accompanied by his wife was trying to board a tram in George-street. Sydney, at the corner…

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Visitors to the Show

Evening News · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 10

Call and see me, and leave your measures for future reference: then when you write down for a new Suit, you will know that your clothes will fit you accurately…

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Sydney Royal Show 1911

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 20

THE progress of the Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. has been well…

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The Royal Easter Show the Best Yet. Finest Show in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 9

Two old men stood yesterday outside the ring at the Agricultural Ground. The ring itself was a great moving picture of splendid horseflesh. Technically the Clydesdale…

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Bowls. the Easter Carnival. Conference or Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 17

The Easter carnival is in full swing. The week has been spent with the Tasmanians and New South Wales in the field, and now Queensland and Tasmania [?]ave charge of the…

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The Show and Its Significance

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 18

Once more Show Week is with us, the period of the year when more than at any other time city and country meet on common ground. The city man loves his show…

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Bakers and Grocers' Exhibition. South Australian in Glasgow

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 16

V LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The Bakers' and Grocers' Exhibition at Glasgow bus attracted very considerable, attention, over 100,000 persons having visited the exhibition up to…

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A Final Flutter. Last Day of All Nations Fair

The Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 5

For a week post merry maidens have been busily extracting money from the pockets of the thousands of visitors who have thronged the All Nations' Fair at the Town…

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Sheep. Fair Display of Lincolns. Gener[?] Average Barely Maintained

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 10

With the exception of one pen of fat m[?]rin[?] wethers, all the sheep exhibited in the Royal Show are British breeds and crosses. This may seem strange to the visitor not acquainted…

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Bowling Carnival. Queensland V Tasmania. Queensland Wins the Rubber

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 24

As a result of their second meeting yesterday on the Victoria Park green, Queensland, by defeating Tasmania, by 45 points, won the rubber. The president of the Victoria Park Club, Mr. W. Rigg, being…

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The Waverley Cadets. To-night's Picture Show

The Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 6

This evening, at the Olympia Pictures, Bondi Junction, a special programme will be given in aid of the fund for sending the four Waverley Cadets chosen to attend the…

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