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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 16, 1948
Page
15
Home facial routines are described as useful for country women. A small glass funnel acts as a vacuum device to lift cream from the skin while a beaten egg yolk and white mask tightens the face. After drying the face, a cool wash with ice wrapped in gauze finishes the treatment.
Los Angeles Examiner columnist E. V. Durling reports Princess Elizabeth intended to have her child without anaesthetic after reading Dr. Grantly Read's Revelation of Childbirth. Read argues childbirth is not painless and promotes prenatal exercises to ease labor.
A new nylon plant at Niagara Falls will produce stockings using agricultural by products from surrounding farms. Over 100000 tons of by products will be needed as raw material. One bushel of corn cobs yields 40 pairs of stockings.
A historical note reports that farm accidents exceed factory ones per worker, with falls leading, then machinery, then livestock. The horse is cited as the major source of animal-related incidents.
Nancy Thompson, a 15 year old from Penkivusi Willoughby NSW, rises at 4 a.m. to deliver ice with her brother Tom Thompson. She works two days a week in winter and four in summer, wearing shorts even in cold weather as she learns to drive the truck for solo deliveries.
Judy Gainford arrives as Miss Australia and quickly gains major publicity in New York. She attends a Mayor’s city hall event, gives impromptu speeches, appears on radio and TV, and models at a Waldorf Astoria luncheon. Viewers and readers see her everywhere as she embraces the spotlight.
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