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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 29, 1927
Page
2
Mr Ooon has donated 16 for a writing contest open to all New Guinea bairns under 14. Entries must show name and age, address, and be sent on one side of the paper. Submissions to Cairns Poet and Northern Market columns, closing October 11.
A fragmented passage follows Dolly and a magical Fairy as they travel, shrink, and spy a glittering golden palace. The Fairy urges secrecy while Dolly envisions the Queen’s Palace and dreams of returning, until a wakeful interruption ends the fantasy.
Form of invitation invites letters of invitation to Rosemary. Marks awarded for over fifty percent with certificates. Letters must be marked Invitation Competition. Competition closes August 3. Send pen name as well as real name.
A reader’s letters from the Children’s Circle section recount daily life in distant camps and farms. Notes describe meals with natives, visits to gardens, fruit trees in bloom, and pet antics while children share greetings, chores, and small domestic scenes from Myola to Wolfram.
FragmentedOCR describes dainty dinner sweets and savory dishes from home cookery. It lists ingredients and steps for pastry fillings and custards, bread based desserts, a jam souffle style item, and a meat and rice pie with fromage and vegetables, all in a mid-century instructional tone.
Fragmentary dialogue from a doll story describes a character teased for talking, with another character Daly reading aloud from a book as the scene unfolds.
A historical recipe describes preparing a meat pie with neck of mutton and apples. It details grinding suet with mince, mixing breadcrumbs, spices, and herbs, then shaping chops and layering with apples. The dish is baked until crusted, served with tomato sauce and gravy.
A fragment shows a mother child verse about love and obedience. It shifts to a Mrs Niquer party scene where children hurry home for their mother’s cooking. They discover three cats and a playful plan to reach custard leading to a kitchen mishap with custard splashed.
A fragment from a boarding school scene shows a boy unable to write due to cold toes and numb fingers. His mother listens as Litt Harlowea questions when he will be old enough for procedures, while the child laments the chill and the dreamlike, eerie lines suggesting fear and homesickness.
A playful exchange presents pun riddles about fish and shoes naming fish like eel sole and shrimp as hints. The dialogue riffs on meals, tools, and Scottish humor, mixing wordplay with nautical slang and curious logic.
A housewives guide advises wearing gloves during dusting and washing to protect hands. It recommends mild tepid water with borax, glycerine rubs, and oil-soaks using olive oil and lemon juice for neglected hands, plus tincture of benzoin for bleaching. finish with velvet-soft skin and weekly oil use.
The death from pneumonia occurred yesterday of the Hon R F Muollod Minister for Internal Affairs Zaghlul Pasha. The whole of Egypt accorded a solemn funeral. A funeral war Wiel MpTeRsie. New Zealand officials and Australian observers note the prominent Egyptian statesman’s passing.
Mr O Yeatman of Rossville reports the death of Mrory Veatman who passed away in his sleep on Sunday night August 4. Veatman was born near Dorchester England and lived in Rossville five years. He worked in the Palelolans store and was well known for his life on the field. He leaves a widow Mrs Veatman who is ill in hospital.
The late Mr Hopkins, a renowned cartoonist born in Ohio, died suddenly in Sydney. He lived 44 years in Australia, contributed to the Bulletin, and caricatured notable figures of his era. He began in American magazines, studied drawing in New York, and later shaped Australian satire after moving to Sydney in 1843. He was 82 and survived by one spouse.
Sydney Actu reports at the annual Chamber of Manufacturers meeting president Mr BR Marks warns that if the State Premier seizes a 14 percent levy on employers to fund child endowment, factories may shut or move abroad. He argues such taxes will be passed to workers and threaten employment.
A garbled report from Athens outlines political strains and a contested reform agenda. Names and places are unclear, but references to "Canepal Penpeine" and "Vago" hint at allied factions and governance challenges amid economic pressure.
An analysis examines postwar Balkan frontiers and shifting power, noting Italian Jugoslav friction over Fiume, Greek access to the Aegean, and Bulgaria and Greece as remaining allied states. It highlights the League of Nations role in minority issues and Britain’s restrained Balkan policy with rising Balkan emigration.
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