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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 05, 1929
Page
3
The notice advertises a weekend sale on fabrics including striped Jap crepe, cotton voile, fancy trichochene silk, and tootisha. It promises free samples, wide color and pattern ranges, and weekly prices like 2/6 yard for voile and 3/11 yard for silks. Products are labeled as high quality and washable with guaranteed care.
Fashion notes for striped voile beach frocks with round neck and sleeves, plus reversible stripe designs and sleeveless variants. Weekend prices listed including black satin and two tone children’s linen pieces, with colored linings, spray and ribbon finishes, and scalloped details.
Fancy Department offers silk hose in all sizes with slipper heel and all the latest styles. Gauntlet gloves in all shades. Colored mercerized hose in all shades. Patent leather belts in tan and blue. Weekend price details included.
White Huckaback guest towels 08 weekend price 1/8 yard. White ox pillow cases 17 by 28 taped, good wear. Heavy twill kitchen towels weekend price 714 yard. Luncheon serviettes 18 by 18 assorted 4/6 dozen.
Men’s plain fugi silk sports shirts in sizes 14 to 17 offered at weekend price 11 9. Also striped British fugi pyjama suits and cashmerette pyjama suits with neat block detions, weekend price 12 6 and 9 11 respectively. Natural British fugi tourist shirts with matches priced 9 11, sizes 14 to 17.
Footwear section lists LADIES DAINTY TOYA SHOES and one bar neat trimmed boots. WIDE BOOTS with toe caps. ACB weekend prices 17/6 per pair. MEN'S TAN AND BLACK MILITARY COSSACKS described as strongest boot, weekend price 18/11. CHILD DAINTY BLACK PATENT SANDALS sizes 5 to 10 ACE weekend prices 7/11 and 9/11 each.
Weather improved in the past month aiding flower garden work. February is ideal for sowing many annuals. prepare beds for sweet peas next month and sow pansy seed for winter blooms. In vegetables sow nearly all kinds, with cabbage, cauliflower, beans, beets, carrots, and lettuce, plus potatoes and fodder crops, emphasized for Northern districts.
Reader correspondence debates if Adam was the first formed man but not the first created man, arguing Genesis distinctions between formation and creation, the Generations of the Heavens, and immortality themes with reference to Paul and Jesus.
A Kuranda district letter urges establishing a local butter factory backed by Silkwood’s successful model. It outlines land availability totaling about 20 000 acres suitable for dairying and notes 20 dairies already supplying Cairns. The writer proposes a site near Kuranda station with water from Jum Rum Creek or Barron River and suggests forming a committee to pursue the plan.
This piece marks September 16 as the 192nd anniversary of Gabriel Fahrenheit’s death and surveys his thermometer’s impact from weather reports to polar expeditions. It notes Fahrenheit’s birth in Danzig on May 14 1686, his work in Amsterdam, the mercury scale with 32 to 212 degrees, and his other meteorological inventions and contributions.
A testimonial from Mrs. J. G. Stewart of McLeod Street Sydney touts Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as effective for backache headaches and bilious attacks. She claims lasting relief after initial treatment and says the pills kept her kidneys trouble free for twenty years, urging others to use DOAN'S.
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