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Sydney · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1945

2,002 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 101

Repshot Expected to Show His Best Heavily Backed In Doubles Marcontine at Top for Long Race

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 20

REPSHOT has been heavily backed to win tomorrow's Flying Handicap at Canterbury report bookmakers who have…

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Repshot Expected to Show His Best Heavily Backed In Doubles Marcontine at Top for Long Race

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 20

REPSHOT has been heavily backed to win tomorrow's Flying Handicap at Canterbury report bookmakers who have…

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Berry Holds Record War-Time Show High Class Dairy Cattle Get Praise from Judges Profits Go to Patriotic Funds

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 3

WITH dairy cattle well represented the 57th annual show of, the Berry A. and H. Society was, in the words of the President (Mr. N. K. Stewart), "a record success, and the best in the history of the Society. The show was opened by the…

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Ancient Fair Ends

The World's News · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 23

FOR 730 years, a one-day cattle fair has been held annually at Amersham, England. This year, if there had been one calf for sale, the fair would have…

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Pillaged Cargo On Exhibition

The Sun · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 2

HOBART, Saturday.--Damaged boxes, cases and cartons, along with empty whisky bottles, were displayed on a Hobart wharf yesterday. From the boxes, cases, and…

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New Tivoli Show

Truth · Sunday 11 February 1945 · page 29

JENNY HOWARD, English comedienne, heads a big cast of versatile vaudeville artists in "The Sky's the Limit," which opens at the Tivoli…

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Cruelty At Rodeo Alleged 31 Charges After Police Show

Truth · Sunday 11 February 1945 · page 16

THE R.S.P.C.A. last week at Central Court brought 31 charges of cruelty to animals against officials of the Police Boys' Club Rodeo, held at the Showground on December 30, when a horse and…

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Family Man Side Show

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 8

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"Sky's the Limit," New Tivoli Show

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 7

SEVERAL new acts, a number of new sketches, revised scripts for regular performers and the return of English comedienne Jenny Howard…

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"Sky's the Limit," New Tivoli Show

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 7

SEVERAL new acts, a number of new., sketches, revised scripts for regular performers and the return of English comedienne Jenny Howard…

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Flight Strides Out For Smart Six: Cooringwang, D.S.O. Show Dash

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 10

Flight, going along well for autumn races, was one of the star gallopers at Randwick today. Wide out, she covered six furlongs in 1.19½…

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Minister's Tribute at Liverpool Show

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 3

Making her first appearance in the show ring, at the age of four, an Illawarra Shorthorn cow, owned by Mr. A. F. Brady, of Moorebank, won…

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Free Sunday Night Show For Forces

The Sun · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 9

Free entertainment for servicemen and their civilian friends will be held every Sunday night at the Conservatorium…

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Cost Farr Too Much To Show His Punch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Tommy Fair, who fought Joe Louis for the world heavyweight championship, took the count at Brighton yesterday. He was fined £5 for having assaulted a naval cadet, breaking his nose…

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Cost Farr Too Much To Show His Punch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Tommy Farr, who fought Joe Louis for the world heavyweight championship, took the count at Brighton yesterday. He was fined £5 for having assaulted a naval cadet, breaking his nose…

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Music At Fair

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 5

Special band music will be an attraction at the Fair to aid the Sailors' Day Appeal, tomorrow. Outstanding features of the…

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Exhibition by Crack Pacer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 19

Champion pacer, Miss Lawnham, will give a special exhibition at Saturday's Harold Park trotting meeting…

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Pigeon Show

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 1

The Nepean Homing Pigeon Society held its first night show on Tuesday, 6th inst., starting with a young bird class for 1944, blue chequered hen…

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Guard In Show

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 4

AN ALLIED infantryman, armed with a sub-machine gun, stands beside the snow-covered body of a German paratrooper…

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Cleric Hits At Carnival Lures

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Thursday.--"Accepted method of raising money today seems to be that which panders to the carnival spirit," declared Anglican Minister Rev. E. A. Warr yesterday…

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