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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 22, 1948
Page
13
Advice for safe weight loss through diet with balanced meals. Emphasizes reducing calories, cutting desserts and bread, increasing vegetables, fruits, and protein while avoiding extreme restrictions. Recommends steady loss of about a pound or two per week and maintaining vitamins and minerals.
Manhattan milliner Lilly Dache urged women to display spring hats as home decor. She said hats are works of art and should be kept under glass on mantels or framed on walls when not worn.
Eleanor Roosevelt and her son have decided to run a hospitality venture turning a weatherboard farmhouse near the President’s former mansion into a guest inn. They aim to develop 642 acres bought from the Roosevelt estate, offering 22 double rooms and dining for 100, with farm products.
Dr Allan Wynn plans a film set showing Sally in Giselle The Sailor's Return and Lady Into Fox all featuring tragic roles. He aims to preserve the work for his children and grandchildren. The Giselle segment lasts about ninety minutes.
Mr and Mrs Marshall Converse awoke to a shower of glass when a passing horse bumped its nose through their bedroom window striking a vase of flowers. The incident describes an unusual accident causing damage to the room and contents.
Melbourne race meetings showcase bold headwear with pheasant plumes, ostrich feathers, chic quills, and bird of paradise plumes. Skirt lengths lengthen slightly while New Look styles appear. jackets add a jaunty finish. Shoes range from ankle-strap sandals to bold, colored lace-ups in brown and blue.
Fragmentary note reflects a late attempt to read fading inscriptions about age and time. The piece hints at lost opportunity and hindsight while focusing on memory and reflection.
A collection of satirical phrases and jokes mocking language and society. The items riff on Hollywood life, marriage, pessimism, wealth, and women’s tears with witty one liners and paradoxical definitions.
A vintage home baking excerpt offers recipes for biscuits and cookies including dark walnut fingers gingerbread fingers and oatmeal biscuits. Instructions cover ingredients ratios cream shortening beat eggs and sugar roll out bake until golden and keep jars air tight.
The Duchess of Gloucester toured the International Wool Secretariat stand at London’s Idea Home Exhibition. She admired Bedford Cords and wool damasks shown to Princess Elizabeth by Australian, South African and New Zealand wool growers on the occasion of her wedding.
A New Guinea missionary once tried bribery with weekly tobacco payments to his followers. When the tobacco supply ended the natives issued a blunt ultimatum: no more tobacco, no more Hallelujah.
Samples of Australian printed wool designed by Australian artists were shown at the International Wool Secretariat exhibition in London. The Australian Wool Board arranged the samples and noted the exhibit surveyed raw materials and media for textile design.
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