Fragmentary Item Odds and Pair Pricing
Fragmentary OCR lines indicate pricing details with two separate items. Ten dollars for six pairs? Nine dollars for six pairs? The text lists 53d to 9d per item and a 10/6 each with a 5/11 pair.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 07, 1930
Page
11
Fragmentary OCR lines indicate pricing details with two separate items. Ten dollars for six pairs? Nine dollars for six pairs? The text lists 53d to 9d per item and a 10/6 each with a 5/11 pair.
Brief fortune of a newspaper page offers a quip on human separation caused by differing opinions. An archaic misprint-riddled fragment mentions Goethe and a sense that opinions create distance among men. The piece reads as a reflective, period voice column caption.
A scatter of home recipes on sponge cake rolls marrow dishes chutneys and preserves. Instructions cover beating eggs and sugar folding in tartar and baking soda plus self rising flour alternatives and oven steps. Also detailed marrows and chutney methods with vegetables onion apples tomatoes and spices for pickling and canning.
The season favors cotton fabrics from sturdy weaves to delicate chiffons. Beach outfits, hats, shorts, and pyjamas lean cotton, with sailor coats and voile varieties popular. Linen crushes, pique, and georgette provide durable or formal options. organdies and laces shape afternoon dresses and debutante frocks in pastel organdie for Christmas events.
A collection of practical tips and remedies for home care. It covers preserving cheese, making jam, mended china cement, drying and storing items, cleaning and preserving leather, dental washes, vinegar substitutes, and fabric maintenance with common household substances.
Pages of letters dated December 1929 between Maren, Gloria Tilse, Rosemary, and Peach Blossom from Cairns and El Arish. The exchanges describe school picnics, Christmas tidings, health updates, birthdays, and hopes for a bright New Year, with notes on storms and seaside spots.
A fragmentary passage mixes a playful child themed lyric with a note about a Tibetan custom. It mentions married women avoiding beauty in men and describes women plastering their faces with a black paste. The text blends unrelated lines and hints at cultural commentary.
Advert reads that Anti-Acido can banish acidity wind and dyspepsia after meals. It touts easy relief with bottles priced at 2/6 and 4/6 and claims universal availability at chemists’ shops.
Fragmentary message from Rairis Carle to Robin and Hayne peers. One line expresses affection and pride, another mentions a promise to act with care and unity in words and deeds. unreadable portions limit full context and dates.
A fragmented dialogue scene spoofs domestic life with Ms Gramps Mrs Git and a nurse narrator. Humorous exchanges revolve around cooking lessons gifts to tramps money morals and courting salaries as characters reveal quirks and social pretensions in a parody of village humor.
The fragmented verse recalls spring blossoms, midnight and noon quiet, wind whispers along lanes. Names Kathlees and Jena appear amid garbled place cues like Coaktown, suggesting a local poem or excerpt with undefined authorship and places.
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