This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Brisbane Courier Mail
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1946
Page
3
A 1920s style guide urges lightening holiday toil with open-handed hospitality and buffet service. It suggests decorative bowls of fruit, natural bows, self serve stations, and easy to reach plates and forks to create a festive, low effort Christmas gathering for family and guests.
A nostalgic guide outlines the standards of a perfect hostess and guest. It details wealth of energy, planning meals, organizing supplies, diplomacy, good food sense, and welcoming etiquette. The guest should show genuine fellowship, adaptability, consideration, and good manners, ending with a note of thanks.
A vintage guide describes bruised and sugared fruit tea infused with boiling water, strained and mixed with citrus juice to create a fruit cup. It details a lemon passion fruit tea recipe for a large jug, with lemon rinds, boiling water, lemon juice and passion fruit pulp, then chilled and served over ice with mint, citrus slices, a cherry, cucumber peel, and ice. It notes variations for children and a plain cordial option, plus a fizzing cream of tartar soda method to create a foaming drink.
A collection of party games includes Stunt Dance where men and women use matching slips to pair off, Scavenger Hunt with paired clues and items, Peanut Hunt for children with bags and prizes, Carpet Patience building toward a king, and the Connated Parcel game with a wrapping parcel and music where the last two players compete.
Two menu ideas for a Christmas party outline a Sit-down Meal and a Buffet Meal. Menu 1 features chicken broth roast fowl or duck potato salad peas carrots Christmas pudding and cheese straws with cream plus black coffee. Menu 2 offers prawns in white sauce creamed cold chicken potato salad lettuce tomatoes jellied peas and beetroot from salad cream and Christmas pudding fingers.
A parental advisory column examines a 19 year old eldest of 11 who travels for nursing work and stays away for days. It urges compassionate parenting, fostering friendship, and focusing on former home factors. It also includes reader questions about relationships and romance with advice on communication and self awareness.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.