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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 03, 1949
Page
13
A bizarre incident in Toronto involved an emergency squid aiding the separation of a boy and an elf. Their affectionate kiss caused braces to interlock briefly, prompting local responders to intervene and separate them.
A quirky historical note traces kissing from ancient banquets to medieval custom. It covers Saxon salutes to Rowena, festive mistletoe rites, Druids and immortality symbols, Henry VII and King Hal era dancing, Puritan restrictions, and early Roman Christian kisses.
Eight year old Edouard Lopez, son of a Spanish born couturier, gains fame at a three week Paris exhibition selling paintings for 37,000 francs. He plans to buy a winter holiday for Mademoiselle Boulie, fund a locomotive, and print his own works after declaring he wants to print.
In Newark Ohio James B Shrider pleads guilty to carrying a concealed weapon claiming the butcher knife was a keepsake given by his grandmother.
A jumble of kitchen notes presents recipes for Saked stuffed quinces Ravioli and a banana cream dessert. Quinces simmer in syrup with sugar and spices then filled with a nutty fruit mixture and baked. Ravioli covers dough and cheese onion herbs filling boiled in stock with cheese topping. A banana cream dessert blends butter flour milk sugar bananas and rum or brandy to set into a cold pudding.
A wide appeal is launched in March to raise funds for the Australian Red Cross after a near £500 000 loss last year. The campaign urges public support to restore vital services and meet quota targets in Western Australia.
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