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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1929
Page
11
The Cairns Post describes practical household hints for home life. It mentions using newspapers for brushing carpets and laying over upholstered furniture, and provides a spice mix recipe including salt pepper mace cayenne and castor cigar for potted meat preparation.
Anonymouts offers a brief reflective thought urging tenderness toward the world and a quiet realm, noting few words suffice to express feeling.
The article advises keeping a clean towel and warm water for hands before a doctor visit and maintaining a written record of the patient’s status since the last visit. It recommends noting doctor instructions and questions for later, using a notebook with separate sections for patient data and doctor guidance, dated daily entries, and careful feeding practices to suit the patient.
Silk stockings care includes using a weak vinegar and water mix for first wash to prevent color loss. Darning tips cover heel and ball areas. avoid sun drying and peg tops. Ladders should be repaired by pros, or darn from bottom to top and iron. Newspapers aid cleaning and protection of floors, carpets, and stoves, and spill management near gas stoves saves matches.
Mitea from Paramount's The Mar Tage Treydownd models a new summer outfit featuring an elk-toned skirt coat and red divine color, with matching bag hat and shoes. The description notes coordinated accessories to complete the look.
The article notes Likiaa in a sporty Nledlean sports coat worn with a white silk scroll embroidery look in Chevalier second Paramount silk. Fay Wray showcases a yellow chiffon velvet evening wrap with ermine collar and a large bow on the left shoulder, paired with a peacock hem gown and a full skirt.
Instructions describe mixing dry ingredients with boiling water to a soft running consistency, beating to create air bubbles, and baking at a moderate oven for two to four and a half hours. It covers washing and drying bands, keeping pastry cold, minimal extra flour, handling paste lightly, rolling, and storing until needed.
A scrap of home cookery notes several simple recipes. Chilli vinegar soaks two to three flies in four quarts of vinegar with daily agitation. Stem and peanut macaroons mix eggs sugar flour salt and peanuts, bake ten minutes in a hot oven. Fatty cheese cakes use pastry cups with jam and a light batter then bake. Savoury mince blends mince pepper salt egg breadcrumbs and binds, boiled two hours, served hot or cold.
A Cairns note from November 22 records children writing to Rosemary and Woodland Elf with small updates. Mentions mangoes and arithmetical efforts, plus a kitten brood, chicken pox, baths, and playful scenes with a cat named Blackie. Includes casual social exchanges among Bairns and Cheerios.
Readable parts describe a cake and batter method with flour sugar milk and butter, plus cocoa and coconut elements. The text mixes measurements and steps for multiple recipes including icing, with references to margarine and baking, though many details are garbled. Entities include Hogme Cook Club and generic kitchen actions.
The Bairns Circle offers greetings for several names including Pacifix Red Columbine Jovian and Gloxinia with personalized mottos. Messages signed by ROSEMARY and others convey warm birthday sentiments and affectionate closings.
Norma Collis and Maud Thomas lead a charity drive supplying story books and comics. Eileen Hogan, Dulcie Soutar, Marjory Thomas, Heather Krauser, and George Krauser contribute illustrated comics and magazines. A unnamed bundle of comics is included. organizers request names for attribution.
Lois Helene L Bodkin receives a name paper noting a worn entry with ninety six referenced in the report. The fragment confirms a result tied to the named individual and shows archival detail from the source.
A cryptic math riddle asks to think of a thousand, add twenty, double, add sixty, then halve. The result claimed is a thousand five hundred or one thousand fifty, challenging the reader to test the calculation.
Freely garbled excerpts show Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith in a parlour exchange about schedules and habits. A London crowd references large numbers and a joking game Bashmarah, with Mr Muggins and others trading quips on manners and bets.
A silkworm and a spider discuss pacing and output. The spider boasts speed, but the silkworm argues lasting value comes from quality, not rapidity. The tale ends with the moral that value lies in enduring worth.
A poetic note describes daisies decked in white and gold turning rosy as spring’s touch awakens their petals. The verse recalls Snowy petals tipped with pink and a fresh, dewy glow, signaling spring’s lingering warmth and renewal.
A fragmentary tale describes a king who seeks popular favor by granting riches and a powerful ministerial class. In the King’s Wood his forces fill every gap and vow to sustain a thriving realm, though the verse remains incomplete.
A satirical verse recalls factions claiming virtue while pursuing wealth and control. One group seizes advantage after aiding the realm, another undermines them, and all declare the struggle over who can secure the cheese. An elder rat laments the endless bickering.
A short verse by Ivy Henry under Garland of Roses uses a child’s arithmetic to express affection with lines like One and One are Two and Two and Two are Four. The verse closes with a simple kiss motif and a note of end.
Dr Sheldon’s Pills are advertised to cleanse the blood regulate the kidneys and tone the nerves to relieve sciatica backache rheumatism and nervous depression. The ad urges readers suffering from impurities in the system to try the remedy available at local outlets.
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