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Shows & fairs, 1919

2,422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 122

Australian Arts Club Exhibition

The Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1919 · page 7

The Australian Arts Club, a now art organisation, which has grown from a small sketching club formed in Sydney about five years ago, will open its first…

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Sheep Show Entries

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 June 1919 · page 11

The Royal Agricultural Society has extended the closing data for entries of sheep, sheep dog trials, and fleeces in connection with the annual sheep show, under the Joint auspices of…

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The Moving Picture Show Popular Misquotations

The Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1919 · page 4

The military authorities to Paul Freeman: Four walls do not a prison make, Nor Iron bars a cell…

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THE R.A.S. SHOW. The Jubilee Scheme Abandoned

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 11 June 1919 · page 5

The Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. has decided to abandon the jubilee show arranged for 1919, and to bold a centenary exhibition in 1922…

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Death Takes Its Toll Shocking Tragedies Due to Outbreaks of Fire. Panic at a Cinema Show

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 11 June 1919 · page 4

During the John of Art celebrations at Valuers(France) several hundred persons, mostly women and children attended a timber show, The firm…

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Rix Nicholas Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 June 1919 · page 7

His Excellency the Governor yesterday afternoon declared formally open to the public the exhibition of oil paintings and drawings by Mrs. E. H. Rix Nicholas. There were…

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Virile Pictures Mrs. Rix Nicholas' Exhibition

Evening News · Thursday 12 June 1919 · page 6

An exhibition of pictures by Mr. E. [?] (widow of Major G. M. [?]) was opened bythe Governor (Mr. Walley Davidson) at the…

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The Moving Picture Show Potty Crime

The Sun · Thursday 12 June 1919 · page 6

Magistrate: And what is the charge against this man? Police Prosecutor: Murder, your Worship…

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Royal Agricultural Society. the Centenary Show

The Land · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 7

At a well-attended meeting of the Council of the R.A.S., Sir Samuel Hordern presiding, the question whether the Jubilee Show, abandoned in…

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Royal Agricultural Society. Special Wheat Class

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 7

The agriculture committee of the Royal Agricultural Society this year introduced a class in the wheat senedule for the Royal Show for grain and ears. Three entries were received,…

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Picture Show Panic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 9

During the recent panic at a cinematograph theatre at Valence, 120 people lost their lives…

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Poultry and Pigeons. Annual Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 5

The ninth annual show of the Poultry and Pigeon Club of N.S.W. opened yesterday at the Municipal Poultry Markets, Quay-street. While the entries are hardly up to former…

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Singleton Show. Schedules New Available

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 5

The attention of "Farmer and Settler" readers is drawn to the advertisement in this issue of the Singleton show, the annual fixture of the…

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The Moving Picture Show Elegy

The Sun · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 4

"Dockum," one of the best-known figures of Sydney, who won the funniest face and other competitions some years ago has died from peritonitis in the…

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Mrs. Rix Nicholas' Pictures. Exhibition Opened by Governor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 3

The fame of the drawings and oil paintings of Mrs. Rix Nicholas' attracted a large number of guests and their friends to the official opening on Wednesday of her "one-woman"…

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The Passing Show: The Labour Split

The Land · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 10

At the annual conference of the political Labour party the popular pastime familiarly known as "beating one's Joss" was indulged in on a quite…

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The Passing Show Wages of Civil Servants

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 6

Victorian civil servants propose to hold a public demonstration to snow that "the present rates of pay are totally inadequate to cope with the high…

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Is the Farmer Getttng a Fair Deal? Fixing the Price of Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 7

At a meeting of the Wellington (N.S.W.) branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. M. G. Cater moved the following resolution:—"That the present method of…

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Royal Show Wheat. Grain and Ear Class Prizes

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 7

The Royal Agricultural Society this year introduced a class in the wheat schedule for the Royal dhow collection of grain and oars. Three entries wore received. and as the show was…

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Tasmania's Troubles No Sheep for Sydney Show LAUNCESTON

The Sun · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 5

For the first time since Tasmania commenced sending stud sheep to the Sydney sales no shipment will be made this year in consequence of no boat…

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