Thought For Today Good Temper
A brief thought for the day urging good temper as a steady estate, noting that temperance and composure are valuable personal traits to cultivate. The fragment emphasizes self restraint and calm in daily life.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 11, 1930
Page
11
A brief thought for the day urging good temper as a steady estate, noting that temperance and composure are valuable personal traits to cultivate. The fragment emphasizes self restraint and calm in daily life.
A discussion on how long nights and daytime routines affect beauty and health. The piece argues that overactive days shorten rest, making sleep harder to resume after holidays. It notes experts warn against fatigued, crowded schedules and urges reestablishing regular sleep for body and mind. (To Be Continued.)
A collection of kitchen directions describes boiling onions and preparing rich meat dishes. It covers boiling onions until tender, making white sauce with butter and crumbs, and baking fruit and cake fillings. The text includes methods for apple tarts, fruit fillings, cake layers, and an ox tail stew with carrots, onions, rind, and mace, plus a gelatine set for a meat dish.
Practical guidance on cleaning and household care including vinegar for grease, enamel and china brightening, brass care with salad oil, rubbing out insect eggs, lemon for boiling clothes, gum arabic for muslin starching, and a homemade delousing bead of washing soda and borax with coloring agents.
A collection of handwritten notes and postcards from Cairns addressing Rosemary and Sunny Sunshine. The exchanges include cheerful New Year wishes, dog health updates, Christmas gifts, school notes, and family greetings dated January 2 and January 25, 1980, with references to family members and local names.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday greetings to Prairie Flower and others with a series of mottos and well wishes. Messages include Be joyous and Never delay to do the duty, with signatures from The Bairns Circle and The Bairns' Circle.
Paper certificates are prepared and available for collection. The notice imparts pickup instructions and indicates specific days for acceptance, noting Wednesday and Friday afternoon sessions.
Fragmentary note lists an entry Wil 4 Bairn and two boys, alongside names Sime Mg Grorke Chapman and wash. Readable facts are sparse and context unclear.
The Mutual Helpers Band announces a competition inviting readers to submit the best novelty padding recipe or idea. Entries must be pest tested and include the sender’s name and address with a pen name. The contest date is Saturday March 13 and entries should be written in by hand on the paper’s side.
A local contest invites children under 13 to write a letter titled How I Beat My Holidays 2 with a prize of a small bas chair and seals to all participants. Entries must be mailed to Rose Mary Cain Post Cairns Ames and reach by Saturday March 15.
An incomplete, childlike scene features a young bird and a mother bird discussing operations of an enemy. The text contains garbled phrases and scraps of dialogue, with references to tears and a snake, presenting a fragmentary moral about words versus actions in a wartime context.
A mangled archival text shows partial dialogue with garbled phrases about dreams and a motorcar. Distinct names or clear events are unreadable, yielding only a snippet of overheard conversation and scattered words.
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