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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1929
Page
2
Home certificates and names appear in a garbled OCR fragment. The readable parts show references to home and certificates with unclear context and personal names. No clear event, date, or organization is discernible for a full summary.
The article advises on personal appearance and hair care with a tone of moral uplift. It suggests loving kindness as a path to happiness and offers practical tips on scalp rubs and hair treatment to avoid greasiness, recommending straight haircuts and neat styling.
Advice on brushing teeth and hair care for children includes keeping hair short for young kids, using gentle brushes, brushing for three minutes, and avoiding worn brushes. It notes hair should be managed without harsh rubbing and suggests regular grooming to prevent dandruff and promote neatness.
The article describes the rise of uneven necklines on evening gowns and their gradual appearance on daytime dresses. It explains how one shoulder sits higher while the opposite edge slides under the arm, creating a lopsided look that may seem stylish yet lacks traditional neatness.
The readable fragment offers jam making tips focusing on sugar proportion and fruit quality. It warns against overripe fruit and mentions skimmed impurities and careful cooking in a copper preserving pan.
Instructions warn against verdigris poisoning from copper pans and advise using a trivet or asbestos mat over direct heat. The guide covers pan filling, boiling, sugar syrup preparation, skimming, testing for jelly, jar filling, parchment sealing, and a general sugar to fruit ratio with a fruit table for jam making.
The text outlines multiple recipes using rice including a savory rice dish with tomatoes green peppers and butter plus a fried rice croquette variant. It also describes a breakfast cake batter with rice milk flour baking powder and eggs fried in butter and served with bacon or sausage. The fragment ends with a radish garnished rice salad suggestion.
An assortment of kitchen guidance and meals ideas including potato frying tips, meringue and custard techniques, treacle tarts and coconut desserts, nut and milk puddings, pastry dough instructions, a souring drink suggestion, and a brief mention of Otto Khan funding Greece for Parthenon restoration alongside a note about the Souther Railway and London Bournemouth line.
A fragmentary cooking note describes lemon juice sugar and simmering barley water with barley until soft, then straining and thinning if needed. It also lists a baking recipe with rolled oats sugar butter malted butter baking powder vanilla essence an egg and salt, baked slowly to golden brown.
Readers from Walshsteesta and Almond Rock send birthday greetings and New Year notes to Rosemary and peers. Messages recount school, Sunday school, travels to High Island, and hopes for the new term with light poetry and friendly news.
A sensational ad style fragment promotes Creme Charmosan claiming to lighten and whiten brown freckled skin and reduce sunburn. It features two lovers and a boast that the cream makes the plain or ageing skin look younger with a long lasting powder hold at a price of 2/6 per jar.
The Bairns Circle sends wishes for Wilkes, Country Lass, and Jockey Boy on their birthdays with mottos about happiness, loving kindness, and humane conduct. Rosemary signs each message.
A quirky reader’s page presents a string of pun filled Q A exchanges. Questions suggest playful schoolboy humor about letters, rivers and bubbles with answers like a soap bubble cannot be grasped and a river is not a true river when its eye water is high.
The essay details diverse creatures including butterflies beetles moths and wallabies with触uding color patterns and behavior. It notes black beetles and yellow butterflies active in gardens along with wild dogs and domestic cats affecting poultry and birds.
Poem reflects on trivial worries and how pride and selfishness harm friendships. It contrasts small daily frets with bigger life lessons and ends with a hopeful note about savoring tears and time. The lines mention moonrise dawn and playful imagery.
A sensational social column warns against cruel gossip about women aging and introduces a simple cure. The ad-like note claims concentrated lammalite at chemists can restore natural hair color, alleging a harmless, quick solution to greying.
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