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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1926
Page
3
The Cairns Post invites mothers and children to send short personal notes and verses for the Rosemary column. Girls and boys may contribute poems up to 100 words describing home and schedule. Submissions judged by age, with certificates awarded where deserved.
A curio page offers a rambling, humorous guide on appearance and vanity interwoven with animal fables and letters. It weds advice on looks with whimsical anecdotes from Charters Towers and Cairns, showing a homespun community voice and playful tone.
The excerpt offers personal musings on family, pets, and self care, urging kindness, outdoor air, and cheerful outlook. It contains tips on grooming, clothing, and maintaining a pleasant appearance, framed as guidance to a young reader about confidence and inner happiness.
A Cairns Post Home Circle page features child correspondences from Iris, Rosemary, Jean, and George Ward, seeking pen names like Redwing and Bluebell, sharing pets and school notices. Community notes invite Country Women Association members to a Lake Street meeting tomorrow at 9 am.
Fragmentary reminiscence notes reference Tarnall, birthdays on the Bth September, a home by Freshwater, and a letter from von Ry Robertson. The text includes intimate family mention of cousins and a greeting line about “Home, sweet home” with a pen name Johiele inviting a return letter.
A fragment notes a Rag Poet on a ferry named Vibe, with a Clover for ny ak hm hint. The readable text suggests a literary figure aboard a vessel, hinting at a journey and a poetic discovery.
Mary Stirling writes to welcome a reader to the Home Circle in Cairns Post. She asks if they would like a Het of some kind and describes the maiden as fond of making clover chains, suggesting a fairy Clover nickname. The letter ends with a prompt to write again.
Mr WB Sinclair sponsors a 1927 Nature Notes contest in Cairns. Seniors 130 years and up to write five words on Australia’s Fatwa animals of Queensland. Juniors 11 years and under to write words on Queenland wildlife. Entries to Rosemary Cairns Justice office by January 31 1927. Prizes split between winners in each section with 7/6 first prize and 3/ for runners up.
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