Xmas Fair Prices on Toys and Fabrics in 5 Wonderland
The list details Xmas Fair prices for toys and garments at 5 Toy Wonderland. Items include blue baby sets, large beach hats, ladies hats, cambric frocks, dust coats, fancy cambric fabrics, silk veils, and various shoes and knickers with prices ranging from 1/9 to 37/6 per yard or item. Strong emphasis on festive markdowns and wide selection.
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Ripley White Volley Volle
Rees
Ge Tide Pion
Pan Prs Evener Riese Beltelas
Peter Pancelle
Sarrine Savouries Tasty Trifles For Tea
A quirky old recipe piece describes savouries and sardine based trifles for tea. It outlines a tuna like sardine paste made from sardines butter egg yolk vinegar pepper and cayenne with bread rounds filled and garnished with parsley paprika and lemon.
Thought for Today Encourages Cheerful Disposition
A brief morale note urges laying aside life-harming heaviness and embracing a cheerful outlook, invoking Shakespeare as the inspirational voice.
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Shakespeare
Fashions the New Colours in Parisienne Style
The piece surveys a season of vivid colours from copper bronze to Titian red and purples on gowns and hats. It highlights brights like brilliant copper and gold brocades, greyed violet blues, pink mauves, and natural biscuit hat tones with rusky straws and flecked straws. It notes neck wear and decolletage as essential to complete outfits and the revival of natural, nature inspired fashion.
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Wena Gice
Children’s Circle Bairns Correspondence From Cairns 1929
A fragment from the Cairns Post features letters between children in the Children’s Circle Bairns group. Elsie Sederkin writes from Havilah House about letters, hospital name papers for a patient, and plans for a longer next letter. Rosemary from El Arish responds about Christmas, a swimming carnival, joining the Rio Band, and missing a badge as the season nears.
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Havilah House
Sachs Street
Cairns
Rosemary
Fairy OF
Elsie Sederkin
P.S
EL Arish
Rio
Williams
Pharaohs Heart slides reveal ancient heart disease finds
Photographic slides of ancient surgical results and pathologies shown by Lord Moynihan in Leeds illustrate Pharaoh’s atheroma. The ancient monarch’s heart was rigid and inelastic, and mental changes accompanied the affliction, narrowing his outlook as inferred from Exodus.
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Perants
Leeds
Lord Moynihan
Royal College of Surgeons
Egypt
Factory inspectors' pay in Britain set at £550 for men
Men who advance to factory inspector roles in Britain earn £550 annually, while women in the same position face a £450 ceiling. This pay gap reflects gender-based salary limits for the role.
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Britain
Kitchen Tips From Old Household Notes
A fragment of domestic instructions gives practical hints for organization and cleaning. It covers storing papers, making a squid ammonia wash, using soda to prevent blue stains, removing egg stains from linen, easing burnt saucepans with soda, and thickening soups with a batter-flour mix. These concise steps reflect everyday tasks and preservation ideas.
Humpty Dumpty Returns in a Satirical Verse
A playful verse recounts Humpty Dumpty leaving the wall and dropping into a cup before being rescued by a cook. He rolls to a nest, sleeps, then awakens to find himself with twelve other chickens and a bold hen scolding him to mind the wall.
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Humpty Dumpty
Ruffy
F. E. Tournay-Hinde
Birthday greetings from the Bairns circles
The Bairns' Cutle sends Blue Salvia many happy returns and vows to discard idle hopes. Rosemary signs off with the Bairns' Circle for William Fox and a motto about shining for all. The Bairns' Circle also sends Lone Star best wishes for their day.
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Bains
William Fox
Rosemary
Lone Star
Cheerio Parcels for the Sick Highlighted
A Christmas parcel from Cheerio Lois Bodkin brings a box of tree decorations and story books for sick children. The note praises the gifts and anticipates the joy they will bring to the youngsters.
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Cheerio Lois
Helene Lois Bodkin
Bradshaw 97 and Victor Friend Named in Papers
A brief notice records Bradshaw aged 97 and Victor Friend associated with papers in a local filing. No further details provided.
Please Call Mrs. Dempsey About “Rosemary” This Evening
Office note requests Mrs. Dempsey to call about Rosemary after a stated hour. The message repeats the request with emphasis on the caller being at the office and the need to reach Mrs. Dempsey tonight.
Wit and whimsy in a golf time tale
A playful scene unfolds with a riddle of the first man and first woman, a joke about a seamstress and hems, and a golf lore moment where a misdirected drive whizzes by. The exchange ends with a quip about croquet surpassing golf in charm.
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TOY Wonderland
Pan
Cais
Mutual Limited
Cairns Post
Children's Circle
Bairns
Fairy
Fats
AMD Bugoests
Part
Cheerio Parcels
Madam Adam
Adam
Anit
Zephyr
Crepona
Abbott Street
Surry Plantations
Lever Brothers Limited
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