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Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1927

5,125 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Fair Umpires

Evening News · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 1

Miss K. Press. and Miss M. Forde, of James, not as empires for one of the ladies' matches in the Country Week Tennis…

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Tennis Carnival

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 3

Knock-out rounds in the trams tourney of the Country Tennis carnival were played at the Rushcutters Bay Courts yesterday…

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Sydney's Great Motor Show a Wonderful Exhibition an Instant Appeal to Everyone

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 16

VISITORS' to the show this year will find many new points of interest. Even in the comparatively short period of a year…

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Country Tennis Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 28

The country tennis players are not concerned about the heat. Playful competitors "warm up" by steeplechasing over the nets. Left: G. Dalby (Newcastle) springs to make a return. Opening of the Motor Show. -- Mr. W. B. Larke, chairman of the Motor Traders' Association, receiving…

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Fair Males They Resist Disease

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 7

"Fair-haired lads are better able to resist disease than dark-haired youths." Sir Arbuthnot Lane, who stated this…

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Mexican Hats on Fair Heads

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 2

Porisca Beach, in Victoria, it not the pioneer of the fashion of Mexican sombreros in Australia. Here they are adorning fair shingles and bobs of young girl competitors at St, Ives Show…

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The Motor Exhibition at the Showground

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 16

VISITORS AT THE OFFICIAL OPENING. DR. EARLE PAGE PERFORMING THE CEREMONY…

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Picture Show Prize-Winners

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 4

Prize-winners at Dungowan Theatre matinee last Saturday were:—Bell Walker, lean Booth. Ailsa Johnson, J. Harrison. Erala Parker, and Douglas…

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Federation of Show Societies

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 1

A FEDERATION of agricultural societies in the County of Cumberland and neighboring districts was recently formed at Granville, and a…

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The Men Behind the Show

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 9

EXECUTIVE AND COMMITTEEMEN OF THE MOTOR SHOW. WITH D R. EARLE PAGE, WHO PERFORMED THE OPENING CEREMONY…

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The Moving Picture Show Tonjours I'audace

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 4

"Wonderful wot some blokes'll do," said Weary Willie. "'Ere's a plumber got away wiv a ton an' a 'arf o' lead oft of a French railway station…

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N. S. Show Big Programme To-day

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 3

The Northern Suburbs A. and H. Association continued its seventh annual show at St. Ives to-day. A big programme of ring events, continued…

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The Motor Show Story of Progress. Magnificent Display

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 12

One leaves the Motor Exhibition at the Showground with a conviction that there was an amazing development, prompted by intense competition, in motor car construction in 1926…

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Some Interior Views of Sydney's Great Motor Show

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 15

The Hall of Industries The Hordern Pavilion…

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The Enchanted Castle "Fair to all, favor to none." -- Castle Motto. My Ideal Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 26

"My Ideal boy" -- "my ideal boy" -- slowly and thoughtfully I repeated those words to myself, trying all the time to conjure up in my mind a picture of my ideal boy, Well, now, I don't…

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Men of the Show Officials and Visitors a Big Undertaking

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 8

BRINGING off such an affair as this year's motor show and making it go with a swing is probably the hardest task of all. Not only is…

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Will Show If Billy Grime Is a Worldbeater To-night's Fight with Reisler

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 2

'TRIPLE CHAMPION Billy Grime will tackle a tough proposition at the, Stadium to-night in tho person of the American lightweight, Johnny Reisler…

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The Big Show Is "Hitting on All Six" Sydney Pays Homage to the Motor

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 8

BEHIND this years Motor Show is a purpose that goes far deeper than mere opulence and display. Beauty is there, at the various pavilions of the Show Ground beauty of line, of finish, of design, but underlying all this is the serious motive of efficient transport. That is the keynote of the Show, which opened yesterday, and five minutes' wandering among the thousands of widely-diversified exhibits brings it home with a significance as though it were sounded with a blastof trumpets…

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Motoring World the Value of the Big Show Shop Window of the Trade Models and Prices for All

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 7

With the idea of bringing under the notice of the people what the world has to offer in the latest motoring features, the motor traders of New South…

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He Could Have Won the Villiers Or Any Other Big Sprint Race at Randwick's Xmas Carnival Yet Cave Dweller's Connections Probably Didn't Know His Great Worth a Mean Sprinter Who Struck Invincible Form

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 5

THE connections of Cave Dweller have been entertaining an angel unawares, and the obvious conclusion after he won the Moorefield Gold Cup on Saturday was, that if he had gone for one of the big prizes at Randwick at Xmas, he couldn't have lost…

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