Nepean Show Meeting of the Committee. Smoke Concert Suggested
The usual fortnightly meeting of the committee of Nepean District Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society was held on…
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The Nepean Times. Saturday, Jan. 24, 1914. Our Coming Show
We desire to direct a few words to the people of Penrith and surrounding districts regarding the annual show of the Nepean District Agricultural,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dolls' Carnival
The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children is organising on a very large scale what is known as a "Dolls' Carnival," which is to. be held in the Sydney Town Hall in October of this year…
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The Woronora Week Enders Association will hold their fourth annual carnival at Price's Reserve, Woronora River, to-morrow. The programme will consist of swimming and rowing events, footraces, etc. Fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coogee Surf Club Carnival
On Wednesday night last Coogee Surf Club was rewarded with a large attendance at their annual carnival, held in the Coogee Aquarium Baths. The big race of the programme, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Panama Canal State to Be Represented at the Exhibition
The Premier announced yesterday that it is the intention of the Ministry to be officially represented at the Panama Exhibition to be held in San Francisco next year under the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →To-morrow's Regatta an Ancient Carnival Big Fields Promise Good Sport
To-morrow's regatta will be the 77th annual water carnival that has been held on the waters of Port Jackson. With the object of commemorating the settlement of the then colony of New…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Swimming. Australian Championships. Barry Wins 100 Yards Event. Next Saturday's Carnival. BRISBANE
The swimming carnival took place in the Dry Dock, South Brisbane, to-day and was largely attended. Occasional showers fell. In the 100 yards championship New South…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In the Around the Show World Acting in the Snow Wild North-west Adventures
Acting sketches with no audience but the animals of the forest, with trees crashing and breaking with a noise like the boom of cannon, and with six feet of snow all round, is surely…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Betting by Machinery. the Great Totalisator. Cutting Out Dishonesty. Facts That the Public Should Know. Fair Odds, Bigger Prizes, Revenue for Hospitals
The totalisator machine is m use in all the Australian States (except New South Wales and Victoria), and in New Zealand. Residents of this State who have been fortunate enough to travel have seen the machine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →George Dean--singer. Recollections of Show Business. Tales of Jimmy Allison. Rignold and the French Ambassador
Some years ago a large whale was stranded off Coogee, where Jimmy Allison had an interest in the Aquarium. Thousands were attracted to the scene by Allison's…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Stage Song and Show a Homely Theatre. Mr. Hugh Buckler's Ideal. Get Nearer to the People
Mr. Hugh Buckler and Miss Violet Paget intend to make The Little Theatre as much a summer resort as possible, and it is their intention to get away as far as they can from…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Billiards. Exhibition by Fred Weiss
Mr. [?]. [?]. Weiss, the well-Known [?]ard player, will give an exhibition at the Gresham Hotel billiard room on Thursday evening, Conceding the marker 500 start in 750 up. He will also give an exhibition of trick billiards…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carnival at Goulburn. Goulburn
The annual carnival of the amateur swimming clu[?] was well attended. H. Hay, of Manly, competed, but was unsuccessful. He had to concede long starts and was unused to the frequent turns. Results:…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gosford Show. the Awards. Gosford, Friday. The annual show was [?]
Mr W. M. Fleming, M.P. The exhibits in the pavilion showed a falling off owing to the drought, which has affected the district during the past six months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anniversary Regatta. To-day's Big Aquatic Carnival
The Anniversary Regatta to be held on the waters of port Jackson to-day, will be the 78th function of its kind, the earnival having been instituted in 1837, to celebrate the foundation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Panama Canal. San Francisco Exhibition. State to Be Represented
The Premier announced on Saturday that he had defintely settled that the State should be represented at the San Francisco Exhibition in 1915. Mr. Holman has so divided the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sunshine and Surf. Carnival at Manly. a Spectacular Success
There ig a well authenticated story that a person, in England on hearing the name of Sydney remarked, with an air of one ransacking his memory, "Ah, yes, that's somewhere…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Moving Picture Show. An All-Important Question
When the history of the first part of the twentieth century comes to ba written the duller and less inspired. historians will talk of the Russo Japanese war, the Balkan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Swimmers. Longworth and Barry the Champions. Queensland Carnival. Brisbane
The Australian amateur swimming championship carnival was opened on Saturday afternoon at the Government Dock, South Brisbane. The features of the afternoon…
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