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Shows & fairs, 1911

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Royal Agricultural Show. the Gate Takings and Attendance. Some of the Prize-winning Stock Described

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 11

THE Sydney Royal Show closed last Wednesday. The attendance for the concluding day was 13,500, this gate receipts being £433; compare. with an attendance of 6200 for the…

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Mr. A. Judd's Champion Team of Hunters and High Jumping Horses at Sydney Royal Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 20

[?]Llayney, is [?] of hunters [?] feats over [?]ve rescued…

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Liquor at the Show. Constables Visit a Booth. Charges Against a Publican Continued from Page 14)

Evening News · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 9

Further evidence was taking this afternoon at the Water Summons Court in the [?] in which Sub-Inspector Branston founds against James [?] licensee of [?]…

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Some Special Lines Manufactured by the Anchor Fence Company, and Exhibited at the Sydney Royal Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 36

Anchor Switch Catch. FOR PLAIN GATE. FOR NETTED GATE…

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Sporting Review. Cast-iron Trafalgar. League Players for America. the Yearling Sales. World's Sculling Championship. Betting at Amateur Athletics. Inter-state Rowing Carnival. All Sports Reviewed by Experts. Cast-iron Trafalgar. Wins Nearly £13,000 in Stakes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 15

To judge him by his appearance yesterday after his hard races in A.J.C. Autumn Stakes, Cumberland Stakes, and A.J.C. Plate, Trafalgar is quite entitled to distinction as belonging to…

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Skating Carnival

Evening News · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 3

This power, fruit, and vegetable carnival which was bold at the Elite Skating Riok, King [?] on Wednesday evening was well attended both by skaters in fancy…

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Bathurst Show. a Good Exhibition. Sir Aymer Continues Victorious. (From Our Special Reporter.) Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 12

Bathurst show was opened to-day under favourable auspices. The weather was fine, but a little on the cold side. There is every indication of a record attendance. Exhibits…

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Catholic Events. St. Mary's Extension Fair

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 34

The extension fair in aid of the completion of St. Mary's Cathedral concluded on Saturday night, when there was a large gathering in the Cardinal's Hall to witness…

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Carnival of Bigots. Amazing Obscurantism

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 34

At a meeting of Inverness Free Church Presbytery, on the 8th ult., a resolution was submitted on the question of mixed marriages…

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Her Hands Would Show

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 41

A girl lay dying in a crowded slum. She had been mother and elder sister combined to her young brothers and sisters since her mother died, and had toiled early and late,…

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The Moving Picture Show Selling the Surplus

The Sun · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 6

York Peninsula, which lies at the top of Queensland, has several hundreds fewer People than it had at the last census. It is looked upon as one of the danger spots of the…

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Our Girls. What to Do with Them. Town Hall Exhibition. Opened by Lady Dudley

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 7

Mrs. Dawson, a potter, waa potting pots, and the crowd was pottering around her. A woman potter is a novelty. Among the ladies in the crowd was one with…

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" Our Girls." "What to Do with Them." Professions and Hobbies. Girls Realm Guild Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 9

The man who didn't leave the Town-hall yesterday a humbler and a wiser man than when he went in was a bigot. If he had been open to persuasion at all eo would have confessed he…

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Royal Show Booth Licenses. Publican and Assistant Charged with a Breach

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 4

David Timaru Lees, 31, and francis John Stephen, 23, were, before Mr. Maitland, S.M., yesterday, at the Water Police Court, to answer a charge of having, on the 10th inst, in a booth at the Royal Agricultural…

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Maitland Show. Splendid Dairy Stock. (By Our Special Reporter.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 6

The fifty-first exhibition of the Hunter River A. and H. Association opened to-day under particularly favourable weather conditions. The season locally has been consistently good,…

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Photographic Society's Exhibition

The Sun · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 10

The Photographic Society of New South Wales is at present exhibiting splendid collection of photography in the Royal Art Society's rooms. Pitt -street. The work of…

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Coolamon-show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 7

The secretary of the Coolamon Agricultural and Pastoral Association announces that his committee have decided to hold their next annual show…

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Photographic Exhibition. a Splendid Display

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 4

The great feature of the exhibition of the Photographic Society of New South Wales this year is a section consiting of a hundred or more pictures from Great Britain—a notable…

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Agricultural Show Trains

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 1

One of the many points at which the farmers and the Railway Commissioners come into, conflict concerns the special trains run in connection with…

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Picture Show Searchlight

The Propeller · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Hurstville Council a ratepayer complained that the rays from the Picture Show's searchlight had killed a number of her fruit trees…

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