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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
3
The article argues parents must model consistent behavior to teach obedience. It warns against bribing or threatening children and notes trust is essential for compliance. It discusses how inconsistent rules and parental temper provoke defiance and shouting burdens listening.
Advice on parenting warns threats train fear and cowardice while quiet, consistent guidance fosters independence. Parents should avoid harsh commands and allow short, calm intervals before responding, helping children learn self control and reason.
An advertisement offers wedding cake bones complete with card and tin for transmission through the post under Commonwealth postal regulations. Priced at 5/6 per choice, available at the paper’s office or from United Press Ltd at 71-3 Bay Street, Perth.
The readable scraps describe a rustic kitchen list with items like cherries, hips, and ginger. It mentions measures such as gills, cups, and sugar related to a dessert or preserves. Names appear as stray notes or misread labels amid the culinary jumble.
A garbled baking excerpt instructs to butter a cake tin, sift cocoa into a basin with flour, rub butter in, stir sugar, mix with beaten eggs and milk, split batter, alternate layers with cocoa and white mixture, bake about three quarters of an hour in a moderate oven, and cool on a wire rack.
An antiquated recipe describes a versatile cake with flour salt raisins currants currageis lemon rind and butter. It instructs sifting flour with salt and baking powder, creaming sugar with lemon and milk, then folding in fruit nuts and spice for a layered buttered paper lined tin bake until done.
Fragmented OCR text references facial practice and patient care steps with unclear context. It mentions attempts to make people shake, a wife, a nurse, and a hotline, but the overall meaning is garbled. Entities are not clearly identifiable.
An advertisement touts Heenzo as a cheap two shillings per pint remedy for cheat awe and throat ailments. It claims adding Heenzo to water treats coughs colds bronchitis and catarrh while serving as an antiseptic for sore throats and head colds, promising instant relief and money savings.
A noisy May convention of the Young Companions Club convened with Uncle Hugh leading. Members debated aims, thanked contributors, and read letters from Fay Rowlands and others while plans for a program and prizes were outlined.
An old health piece extols daily exercise and proper rest as essential to vigor. It argues exercise should start with balanced activity during work, include simple moves like gentle stretching, and emphasize rest, posture, and regular house chores to prevent stiffness and promote overall well being.
A fragmented recipe lists ingredients like butter eggs flour sugar nutmeg cinnamon cloves and baking powder. It instructs mixing by hand in a basin then baking at a hot oven for about forty five minutes and finishing with icing sugar maybe with rum vanilla and chopped candied peel.
A Sydney woman reports dramatic improvements after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills. She claims cleared skin, natural color, vanished headaches, better sleep, and increased vitality from the pills which allegedly build rich red blood and enhance beauty and fitness.
Fragmentary note describes weighing treacle using a scale pan. The text indicates a shaky method and unclear outcomes, with possible advice on pouring or portioning. No clear names, dates, places, or organizations are present.
An advertisement extols Eno Fruit Salt as sugar free and safer for diabetics. It claims Eno neutralises acidity purifies the bloodstream and cleanses the system by taking a daily glass, presenting a healthful lifestyle benefit.
A garbled note requests sending wear to a name for a picture and mentions The United Press and a pre awarded best boy. The fragment hints at a sample caption and a safety phrase, but the text is incomplete and unclear.
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