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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 16, 1931
Page
2
A reflective verse urging daily kindness and courage. It contrasts life’s froth with resilience, urging acts of help for others and personal steadfastness, attributed to Lindsay Gordon.
The piece details evolving evening wear trends centering on personal style, with natural hair lines, flat waves, and back coils. It notes longer bobbed styles, prominent earrings, jeweled watches, bracelets, and new lighting jewelry like diamond clips and ornate necklaces.
A health note recommends using a clinical thermometer to monitor body temperature. It claims normal range 95 to 110 degrees, with guidance on when to seek medical help for temperatures at 101, 103, or higher. It argues that anyone can read it and that keeping one at home improves health awareness.
Miss L M Paithiull, former Cheltenham Ladies' College head, spoke at Newport on women's work. She argued office life drains romance into drudgery, notes women seek leisure and companionship after work, warns against illicit pleasures, and praises new female self expression and determination.
The piece describes luminous elemental figures and star like fires surrounding a doorway and home, as the speaker longs for a garden at night. The voice contemplates ethereal presences near the residence, a sense of awakening to a re imagined Eden and a desire for a rooted, green world.
In a tale titled The Magic Medal Rosemary tells how Bibbie argues she has nothing to do. A talking bard birdsong uses a chores challenge to teach Bibbie that she has been doing something all along by whining and sulking. She earns or loses marks for good deeds and obedience as the Fairies promise a secret medal.
January notes report prolonged heat with southerly winds and scarce rain. Community events raised 2105 for the institute, with Dr Barlow serving Georgetown Forsayth and Brimsleigh. Death of Mrs Magnus Simpson mourned. ongoing district needs include Ram aid and Gilbert River drought relief. Shire Council backs aeroplane landing for medical access amid mining revival talks.
A printed collection of home cooking instructions covers savory breads, egg batters, and spice steeping. It provides step by step for a cheese and raisin filling, a steamed batter bake, and a later pantry omelette using vinegar, mace, cloves, pepper, ginger, mustard, tomatoes, and parsley in varied preparations.
Children exchange letters about holidays in Cairns Carns and a ship visit. Rosemary confirms Mary Brains riddle answer and a badge will be sent.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday wishes to The Lone Outlaw Lily of the Forest Orphan Golden Data Fairy Fern and others with mottos about beauty grit sunshine and flowers. Each message wishes many happy returns of the day with affectionate sign offs.
A playful jumble of puns and jokes on wine gravity soldiers and poets. The item strings light humor and humorous definitions with misspellings and typographical quirks. It showcases a home paper’s quick wit and word games.
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