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Shows & fairs, 1912

3,693 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 185

The Cycling Carnival and the Side Shows

Referee · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 11

After many weeks of perfectly fine weather, with stretches of exceptional heat, on Saturday a change came, a light shower falling In the afternoon. All day Sunday it was threatening,…

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American to Visit Sydney. Will Play Exhibition Game

Evening News · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 9

Delightful news for Sydney's town [?]was contained in aletter which Mr. P. H. Colquhoun president of the Australasian lawn Tennis A[?]n has received from Mr…

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Late Sporting. Lawn Tennis. Blue Mountain Carnival Concluded

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 14

KATOOMBA, Tuesday.--The seventh annual tennis tournament promoted by the Katoomba Club was yesterday morning brought to a successful conclusion. During the morning tennis was played under splendid weather…

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For Surfers. Bondi Surf-bathers' Life-saving Club Carnival. the Mears' Trophy

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 16

The carnival in connection with the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life-Saving Club is to be held at the Coogee Baths on January 25. The principal event is the Mears' Trophy, presented by…

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The Moving Picture Show The Marquis of Queensberry Turns Democrat

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 6

The Marquis of Queensberry has sailed for Now York to become an American citizen and leave the "idle rich" forever behind him. The cabled information comes upon…

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Swimming. Next Saturday's Carnival. Prospects of the Championships. Sydney's Team for New Zealand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 8

More important than ever before, the State championship carnivals, to be started next Saturday, and continued on the following Wednesday and Saturday, will provide the most…

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Motor and Cycle. London's Big Automobile Show. the Trend of Design

Evening News · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 12

It may safely be said that nothing is of so much interest to local motorists as the earliest possible news about the great automobile exhibit open to the world, which is held…

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Swimming. State Championship Carnival

Co-operator · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon, the first meeting of the present season’s State Championship Carnival will be held at the Municipal Baths. Domain…

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Shops and Shopping. Vanity Fair on the Business Side

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 5

On their way to the opening of the recent Durbar festivities their Majesties the King and Queen of England halted at historic Malta, where, no doubt, Queen Mary embraced the…

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The Moving Picture Show. Exit the Lamplighter

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 6

The age is moving at such a rate that some of us get out of breath in trying to keep up with it. The horse is fast disappearing from our streets, there are threats of the ejection…

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The Teaching of the Jesuits an Old Slander Revived. a Fair Challenge

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 17

Dealing in the press (writes our Dublin correspondent) with a statement made by the Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry, an English judge who recently revived the slander…

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A Hardy Annual Protest Against Show on Good

Evening News · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 10

In his official paper for this month Dr. Wright, the Archbishop of Sydney, makes the following appeal to churchmen:— "I am anxious that churchmen should take…

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Camera As Race Judge. Snapshots Show Position of Horses

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 3

The French racecourses may shortly introduce a very simple method of controlling the judge's decision by photography. This innovation was tried at Zellick, in…

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Manly Surf Carnival

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 8
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The surf carnival at Manly is the greatest show event of the year at the Village, and to-morrow the procession from the pier to the. Ocean Beach, at 2.30 p.m will be made a…

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Olympic Fund Carnival. Hardwick v. LONGWORTH

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 6

To-morrow afternoon at the Municipal Baths in the Domain the campaign for fund's to send a representative swimming team to the Olympic Games at Stockholm in July next…

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Swimming. Olympic Fund Carnival. Country Championship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 12

The hon. secretary of the N.S.W. Swimming Association reports that he has received the following entries for the annual 100 yards championship of the country, to be contested at the State Championship…

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The Moving Picture Show More Strike

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 6

A few years ago it appeared as if the strike as a means of ootajning right, justice, and as much as possible had been turned down by everybody. To-day the world has taken it up…

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Stage Song and. Show. Last Nights of "Our Miss Gibbs." Final Performance of "Lady Frederick." Musical Comedy at the Royal

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 10

"Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay" will, cease troubling the sympathetic vibrations in Her Majesty's. Theatre this night week. On the following evening the Royal Comic Opera Company…

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Model Engineering Exhibition

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 6

A SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION. An exhibition which was both interesting and instructive was opened last night by Mr. Robson. M.L.A., in the Summer Hill Masonic Hall. It was under the auspices of the…

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