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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
2
An OCR fragment touts affluent women in Melbourne enjoying travel outdoor sports and fast cars aboard yachts across the seas. It promotes a skin cream, Charmosau, claiming youth-enhancing effects and a "greaseless" formula. Price is given for a double size product.
A reflective line urges steady courage and forward marching through doubt. It proclaims that even when faced with clouds and defeat, perseverance leads to growth and eventual improvement. The quote embodies resilience, faith, and the promise of better outcomes.
The piece discusses home gardening practices suggesting that igonetttes grown in pots are well cultivated and not as difficult as believed. It notes that soil type matters and that adding leaf litter or organic matter is unwise when the soil is heavy, advising caution in potting mixes.
Renovating tips for walnut and oak furniture shared for spring. Advice covers ammonia wash for oak, walnut polishing with flannel and cloth, and a home polish recipe mixing medicinal alcohol turpentine spirits of wine.
A garbled excerpt describes brown colour production with wax and linseed oil, vinegar, turpentine and perfumed oil. It mentions achieving a creamy consistency like Devonshire cream and references static pigment mixing. No clear event or outcome is stated.
A series of intimate notes from Rosemary Vera Jackson and others dated January 10 from Mirrimiinni and Cal, describing baby milestones, family news, birthdays, Christmas reflections, and playful nicknames. Messages reflect everyday life and greetings to Rosemary and the bairns.
The Bairns Circle sends warm birthday wishes to Pearly Drop Kay Lirass White Elk Flashing Glory and Rosemary. Each wishes a happy day and shares mottos like Keep on Keeping On Be true to the best Always Cheerful.
Fruit types are two kinds flavor fruits like peaches strawberries and pies and food fruits such as banana raisins date and figs. Sugar forms vary and cane sugar is less preferred. Food fruits may contain starch or sugar and often corn meal. Fruit drinks and meat preparations mentioned. Fruit decay stems from bacteria and moisture loss affects shelf life. Sterilizing fruit by boiling is noted in passing.
A large entry competed in the nature event with judging by Edmund Jarvis an esteemed entomologist. Results will be announced shortly and the formal transcript will follow.
Banana and Almond Pudding recipe details with bananas sponge cakes milk eggs sugar and biscuits. Instructions describe layering in a buttered mould, steaming, and serving with almond sauce and sherry, plus notes on related banana desserts and fruit jellies.
The fragment notes a line about a verse competition and lists the author Lorna Greenaway known as Lorna Doone with a partial address Swan Street Gor tonvale. The text emphasizes alphabetical order and a day that has passed as part of the verse.
A fragmentary verse meditation asks for the nameless saint’s memory and place in history. It laments no bronze memorial or stone exist for the man who lived and died for faith, seeking a desert or sea to bury his bones and a divine acknowledgment. The prose afterward notes British wages in August rose 70 to 75 percent above the prior August, and food costs increased about 7 percent.
Two men enter city merchant employ with salaries and a promised raise. A chooses five pounds every six months, B chooses twenty pounds per year. Determine who gains more and show reasoning.
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