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Shows & fairs, 1913

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The Easter Show. Prizes for Wheat Exhibits

Evening News · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 5

Sched[?] for the Royal Show are now available, [?] from the [?] of the Royal Agricultural Society on application Cop[?] at the [?] have been posted to old…

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A National Horse Show. a Decentralisation Movement

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 2

At last meeting of the committee of the Murrumbidgee P. and A. Association, the following letter was read from Mr. Norman Falkner, of F. S. Falkner,…

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The Moving Picture Show. How to be Respectable

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 6

A solicitor urged that the man should he leniently dealt with because he had married into a well-to do family. "Then a man is highly respectable became he has…

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The Passing Show Potato Famine in South Africa

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 6

There seems to have been even a worse- potato famine in South Africa than in Australia According to a report received from the Commonwealth…

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Bowls. Carnival at Melbourne. the Rink Championship. Comments on the Play. Melbourne

Evening News · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 5

The contestants for the champion rinks were yesterday reduced to four, and the Armadale and Melbourne Greens were the [?] of competition…

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Bowls Carnival. the Closing Stages. New South Wales Rink in the Semi-finals

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The bowling carnival for the Australian championships is gradually drawing to a close, and to-morrow will witness the concluding stages of the play…

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Stage Song and Show Success of "Florodora." "Faust" at the Royal. Mr. Julius Knight in "Milestones." Palace and Adelphi Melodrama

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 12

The black and white fascinating feminine six and their melodious male "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" partners continue to make pleasant evenings at Her Majesty's Theatre…

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Manly Surf Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 15

The home of surf-bathing is Manly, and the carnival there each year is one of the best. This year the event is fixed for next Saturday, and record entires have been received. The procession from the harbor to the ocean…

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Hawkesbury Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

RICHMOND—The annual show of the Hawkesbury District Agricultural Association is usually held in May; but this year the date was fixed for next month, so as to get ahead of…

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The Passing Show

The International Socialist · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 1

All illusion of the modern "boss" is that he is a leader of men. He is a driver of slaves. Capitalism has passed through two stages…

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Atkinson's Circus and Wild West Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 15

At Moore lark Bud Atkmson's Circus and Wild West Exhibition is attracting large audiences. Various scenes of pioneer life in Western America are portrayed by a band cowboys, Indians, and Mexicans, headed…

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The Next Royal Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 15

The schedule of the coming Royal Show, which opens on March 18 in Sydney, is being distributed amongst the exhibitors. For this show the council of the Royal Agricultural…

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A Coming Flower Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 16

The flower show organised by a Joint committee, of the Horticultural Society and the Horticultural Association, and to be held on March 27 and 28, 1913, is being well supported, and liberal donations towards the prize…

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The Great Flower Show

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 10

This show, organised by a joint committee of the Horticultural Society and the Horticultural Association, and to he held on March 27 and 2[?], is being well supported, and liberal…

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The Moving Picture Show Music in Gaol

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 6

The "penitentiary band" is an institution in the prison at Leavenworth, U.S.A. Gaols in New South Wales have their newspaper, edited by Mr. Davy Hall, and brightened…

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The Royal Show. Prize List of £6000

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 1

The schedule of the coming Royal Show, which opens on March 18, in Sydney, is being distributed amongst the exhibitors. For this Show the council of the Royal…

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Eye or Ear? Picture Show or Play?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 7

While we discuss, intermittently, the moral and social effect of the picture show, new, films are produced more and more rapidly, and "palaces" to display them increase in…

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Bowls Carnival Splendid Rink Play. N.S.W. Wins Championship. How Victory Was Gained. Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 7

The first Australian champion rink competition will go down in bowling history to the credit of New SOuth Wales. The semi-finales and Finals were played…

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The Flower Show. (Published by Special Arrangement-- All Rights Reserved by the "Sun.")

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 10

Two small boys were fighting in the gutter of a dirty, narrow street in the heart of London. A thick fog hung like a grey wool…

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Horticultural Show

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 5

This show, organised by a joint committee of the Horticultural Society and the Horticultural Association, and to be held on March 27 and 28, is being well supported and liberal…

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