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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 08, 1929
Page
14
A newspaper ad lists fancy Palm Beach dresses and silks with guaranteed fast dyes. Colored Palm Beach and Jap Crepe fabrics are offered at sale prices per yard and per dozen, noting pure silk Fugii silk and fadeless guarantees. Prices include 2/3 yard 36in for Palm Beach and 1/11 yard for colored Palm Beach.
Striped cotton tweed trousers in un striped designs come in sizes 3 to 7 with cuffed bottoms and solid wear. Prices show sale reductions for cotton twist workwear and black cashmere half hole and cotton singlets with short sleeves, indicating value offers and usual price points.
Ladies pure silk hose slippers heel in tearose woodland rose French blonde haze hoggar peach sale price 4/10 pr. Ladies pure silk hose all fashioned with slipper heel sale price 7/11 pair. Milanese silk gloves all shades sale price 3/8 paid. Ladies handkerchiefs sale price 2/8.
ROGEFAST CASEMENT CLOTH and other fabrics offered in biscuit brown and W Rose colors for curtains or children's frocks. Includes 48 inch width at sale price 1 shilling 9 pence per yard, Madras curtain sets 1 shilling 3 pence per yard, lace curtain net 2 shillings 3 pence per yard 1 shilling 6 pence per yard, gauzette curtain net white 104 per yard sale price 1 shilling 6 pence per yard.
Smart Bubble hemp hats with two tone edge and ribbon trim offered at 7/9. LK frocks with hip yoke and crepe-de-chene bands priced 15/1. Coloured linette house coat with long sleeves and belt on sale 3/11. Ladies art silk bloomers with elastic waist 4/6. Girls Panama school hats in navy finish with bow on sale 6d.
Footwear section lists many shoe styles in black patent and tan oxford. Prices shown as sale prices per pair, with sizes and last notes, including ladies options with various heels and standard ACB pricing.
A detailed listing of a radio station’s daily timetable from morning through night. It includes announcers, music segments, market and weather updates, a midday cafe program, a studio recital, a mail train timetable, and a late night radio mystery play The Eye of Tayo Lang with audience participation and a prize.
An old fashioned pea soup takes hours but a new Health Kitchen method uses K R Frankfurts from the Darling Downs Bacon Co at Toowoomba. Halved frankfurts simmer in water with pea flour butter and onion for speedy fragrant soup.
A fragment advert promotes HEENZO as a home cough remedy costing two shillings, claiming it treats coughs and chest complaints including bronchitis influenza and whooping cough. It asserts safety for all ages and that it can be used without upsetting digestion, urging households to use it.
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