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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
4
Constance M Savage memorializes a wartime sweetheart in a nostalgic verse. The speaker recalls shared moments beside a stream, vows, and a future now lost as the lover goes to war. The poem ends with hope of reunion in the afterlife and a final tribute to the fallen.
Prologue opens in Parker's Chambers Dayborough where Ephraim Moss moneylender sends Wilkins to find a new job. Wilkins plots murder, Croft suspects Moss, Croft aided by Wilkins confesses and takes gold to flee. Parker and Graham tangled in past tragedy. Parker pressures Graham, contradicting Madge and Ralph's engagement. Parker stalks Ralph and Madge, threatening their marriage. Madge appeals to her father as Spriggs investigates a shady man.
Ex inspector Spriggs visits Parker at Spring Cottage in Castleside posing as a newspaper man. He probes Parker about a Australia background, digs into Parker's link to Graham, and reveals a planned pursuit of truth about a possible blackmail scheme. Parker resists yet is cornered by Spriggs who warns of exposure.
Ida Mell er outlines a practical women’s fashion feature featuring a simple blouse and skirt dress. She notes unpretentious yet dainty styling with embroidery or braided embellishment, and provides a five part paper pattern for home dressmakers. The pattern details explain layout and material usage for a 36 inch fabric, with careful cutting guidance to minimize seams.
The piece outlines dress construction with a blouse and vest details, collars, cuffs, embroidery, and fastenings plus a fashionable black silk hat. It also offers skin cleansing advice, favoring grease or cream treatments, soap alkalinity, and olive oil for nourishing effects amid wind and dust wear.
A fragmentary collection of quotes on envy ingratitude love and life from various authors including Burton Thackeray and Archbishop Trench. The text presents musings on the sting of words the small sufferings of daily life and the coldness of unkind hearts.
Fashion notes favor ribbed cloths like whip-cord and corduroy over plain surfaces. Striped twill-silks and navy serge silks appear in pelisse costumes, a spring change from coats and skirt suits. Suggested materials include biscuit whip-cord and navy serge, with skirt and bodice cut separately before joining at the waist.
A compact guide offers thrifty housewife recipes and household hacks. It covers making fire lighters from candle-end scraps and newspaper, cleaning mirrors with blue-dipped linen, and using paraffin dampers to disinfect nursery furniture. It also includes pickle for eggs, singeing poultry with methylated spirits, and cleaning real lace with magnesia and weight press.
Eczema in very young children often stems from carelessness and poor cleanliness and should be treated by a doctor. It may appear during teething as small inflamed patches anywhere on the body. prevent scratching to avoid spread, and adjust diet and materials like wool. Baths are replaced by sweats, liver oil is advised, and fat intake increased without upsetting digestion.
A vintage skincare note advises against washing the face before or after exposure to air. It promotes applying a small amount of toilet cream, then a light layer of pure powder removed with cotton wool to protect the skin. Do not scrub with soap as it harms the complexion.
A collection of traditional puddings with detailed ingredients and methods. Fresh Fruit Pudding blends breadcrumbs plums figs apples and glacé cherries into a rich steamed dessert for two. Very Dark Pudding uses dark treacle currants sultanas and spices steamed for three hours. Potted Rice combines cooked rice breadcrumbs butter and eggs then airs in pots. Fancy Pudding adds raisins Madeira cake crumbs and spice steamed for three hours. Present-Use Pudding yields a quick bakeable batter for steaming or boiling in a padded basin for four hours.
A collage of humorous exchanges and dialect sketches. A courtly suitor pledges wealth, a clever girl rebuffs with wit, a boy offers to locate a missing Johnny Locke, and a hotel manager recites meal times as a city’s quirks flip by in playful dialogue.
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