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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1928
Page
2
A garbled diary like passage describes busy sewing and casual chatter between Rosemary and Catherine. It mentions items and phrases such as Bleesome hubt and Hedierow, with playful but unclear lines about actions and greetings.
A fragmentary recipe describes making a Madeira cake with multiple stages. It lists ingredients and steps for creaming butter and sugar, adding flour, eggs, and milk, and preparing fillings and frostings with vanilla and tartar. The text is garbled but preserves references to sugar, flour, butter, eggs, milk, and baking in a greased pan.
Practical guidance on airing and shaking garments after wear, proper storage of summer frocks, delicate fabrics like silk and linen, and the benefits of light starch for linens. Emphasizes airing hats and brushing crowns, along with methods to extend silk stockings and summer cotton fabrics.
An old man admires statues while a porter points out a statue’s eleven inch hand and jokes it would be a foot if twelve. A comic mishearing about a kiss over the telephone ends the strip with muddled romance and wordplay.
A fragmented OCR piece titled The Lesson presents a storyteller scene with a family discussing work and earnings. The readable text references a father mother and child in a domestic setting. Content is garbled with many illegible words, offering no clear events or outcomes.
January minutes recount a Bartle Frere gathering at Bartholins Hall with attendees including Messrs Aven, Aan, Larsen, and others. Discussion centers on road repairs, conveying traffic and matters with the Educational authorities, and a charity collection for Bartle Frere Charitable work.
An old Melbourne advertisement touts Charmesan skin cream claiming a remarkable effect on aging skin. It features a stage star Helene Sten and Uta fithan in a dramatic testimonial about clear, fresher skin and a grease free formula priced at 2 shillings per jar, sold widely.
An advertisement touts Rexona Soap as a remedy for tired feet and to prevent foot sores. It claims cleansing pores and delivering medicinal properties to keep feet wholesome and healthy, with Rexona aiding healing if sores develop.
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