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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1947
Page
16
A reader guide highlights how display ads in this paper reveal buying and selling opportunities. It urges listing poultry, hatching eggs, plants, implements, and household goods at fair prices to attract buyers and profit from the marketplace.
A fragmented catalog of local newspaper titles and markets seeks readers to describe unwanted items for sale. The text lists numerous papers and regions, implying a large classifieds network and standardized ad formats.
A list of regional newspaper titles including The Goomal ling Gazette Southern Sentinel Barvey Warooka Mail Norseman Esferance News Tork Chronicle Coolgardie Miner Preston Mail Pemberton Post Wheatbelt Tribunes Dowerin Guardian Dampier Herald Southern Cross News Northern Times Nar Nar Von Leonora News Northam News and notes that rates apply when an advertisement is inserted in all 26 papers with application for further details.
A vintage guide suggests curing tin utensils with lard and baking to prevent rust. It also covers preserving new potatoes with salt to ease scraping, and a method to boil eggs by starting with boiling water then off the heat for six minutes to keep the whites tender. A mustard plaster remedy is described using egg white instead of water.
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