Fragmentary wartime letter about families and mates
The readable parts describe homes filled with life and worry for mates. The text appears as a wartime letter, likely reflecting soldiers writing home about conditions and missing family.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1929
Page
11
Thought for Today Jewels of the Soul
The essence is to keep romance of pilgrimage in the heart. Expect both sweet and bitter experience. Seek the goal over the prize and find jewels of patience hopefulness and wisdom along the way where least expected.
Bairns and Cheerios Story at the Lake Home
A child centered tale recalls measles new neighbors in Fenlie and a family moving to a lakeside home. Bananas planted along the garden, children tending beds of flowers, shells and seaweed at the beach, and playful days with circus fairs and fairy tale fantasies across a palm shaded shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imto
Theix
Fenlie
Children Circle letters from Tolga and Gordonvale readers
In Tolga and Gordonvale letters to Rosemary in Cairns Post Home Circle, Paloma recalls joining the Circle after receiving a badge, helping at home, and recovering from influenza while recalling a kitten mascot and Molly the horse ride. She notes schooling disruption by rain and road conditions. Gordonvale writer asks to join and lists family, pets, and school details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva
Tolga
Rosemary
Cairns ‘Post
Betty
Molly
Samme
Cairns
Paloma
Edith Hoch
Cairns Post
Fairies Fountain for a Pen Name in a Home Circle Note
Rosemary writes to Nell Fairweather about close school access and sharing a cordial, playful exchange. She imagines Nell’s parrot, Rover, and suggests Fairies Fountain as a pen name. The letter hints at Nell’s exam standing and invites further correspondence in a warm, personal tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unseen Cairn
Nell Fairweather
Cairns Post
Nell
Rover
Urs
Rosemary
Clover Blossom Writes From Dimbulah To Cairns Move
In a Dimbulah dated letter Jessie Elder signs as Clover Blossom, saying she will move to Cairns on April 4 and hopes Rosemary will publish the note. She mentions recent rains, tennis and dances, two blue mountain parrots and a talking cockatoo, and a riverbank garden with rich fruit crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dimbulah
Rosemary
Herald
Cairns
Clover Blossom
Jessie Elder
Cairns Post
Anzat Park
Birthday greetings from the Bairns Circle
The Bairns Circle sends heartfelt birthday wishes to Rosemary and Rosemary family members with playful mottos about humane deeds and hopeful wishes. The message conveys affectionate, old fashioned verse and signatures from group members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosemary
Eggs fall as Betty finds a magical orchard
Betty searches for a nest with anxious hens and finds a fairy Mrs Cairns in an apple orchard where eggs of many colors drift from a cloud and cover the grass. The scene becomes a dreamlike celebration of eggs laid by children now scattered around the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Mrs. Cairns
Europa Disaster Liner May Be Rebuilt, Portions Saved
An inspection confirms damage to the Europa with stern engines boilers and hull salvaged. hope grows for rebuilding the vessel within about a year as forepart and center show terrible devastation and the fire’s origin remains undetermined. Residents recall memories of Easter and home as Betty finds eggs in a scene of memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Prehistoric Beasts Unearthed By Andrews Expedition
American Museum of Natural History funded expedition in Mongolia reports a new prehistoric mammal, 25 feet long and 14 feet high to shoulders, with a 12 foot neck, four foot forelimb bone weighing 200 pounds. Two complete skulls found. skeletons to be reconstructed. Mastodon bones and other specimens accompany the finds, destined for New York and foreign museums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Chapman ‘Andrews
Sra HS
Gobi Des
Mongolia
American Museum of Natural History
London
Frp
Magny Post
Andrews
Selected Verses On Wings Of Living Light
Fragmented verse excerpt depicts dawn at the tomb with an angel and guards fearing the stone’s removal. The text speaks of Christ’s resurrection and triumph over death, urging believers to arise with Him as the Day-star rises. It includes mixed archaic spellings and quotation marks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bettissie, Billiburghy
U.S
Fragmentary note on pudding course and distance
Fragmented text mentions a half mile distance and a pudding course. The readable phrases are disjointed and provide no clear event or identifiable names or organizations. The item lacks a coherent news value or identifiable subjects to summarize.
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