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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 17, 1928
Page
11
A mother endorses Nu jel baby formula as the natural, harmless option for infant health. She cites doctor approval and Universal health benefits while urging parents to use genuine Nu jel from Standard Oil laboratories.
Communal appeal invites girls and boys to participate in a reader letters column. Messages should be up to 100 words in length and may discuss community matters, with rewards for deserving contributions. Submissions are requested from Cairo and surrounding areas.
A reflective meditation links moral growth to inner architecture. The passage briefly blends a Beckerian thought with a metaphor of the circulatory system, noting the blood’s struggle against gravity and its impact on venous return to the heart.
An illustrated piece features the Joyful Wig and Smile Wow characters as playful helpers for children. It includes a tale of a girl’s frown turning to a smile and a mother’s reminder that cheer spreads, followed by exercise advice to improve calf circulation and a note on talonette heel supports for ankle balance.
A London authority outlines methods to slim calves by diagnosing calf type soft fatty or hard muscular. It emphasizes breaking fat cells, building elastic fibres, and speeding circulation through targeted exercises to achieve slender contours.
Children letters from Shieh Street Cairns dated July 9 1928 describe sports and entries like a piece titled Apple men. Rosemary writes of cousins and sister Looser Fairy sending verse while Dick Hatton signs off hoping his drawing of a picture will appear. The Cairns Post invites more verses and notes sports fun.
A faded letter from June 9 1241 shows Rosemary writing to Rose Mary with affection. The missive mentions flowers for a hospital ward and hospital gifts amid scattered words and old spellings.
The Bairns Circle sends a cheerful birthday message with warm wishes and a note from Rose Mal y. A parcel of comics from Rose Ring to Rose Mal y accompanies the greetings.
The snippet shows characters The Beggar and The Passer discussing loss and a deaf parent. Mentions of Elizabeth and a young woman approaching adulthood appear in dreamlike dialogue. The text reads as an OCR fragment from a stage script.
A fragmented reader section presents a string of riddles and replies. Questions touch on wordplay, animals, dates, colors, and jokes about birthdays, with garbled spellings and broken phrases typical of OCR renderings from a historical newspaper page.
Rosemary invites all boys in the Barna' Circle and nearby to craft a toy chair eight inches high from lawyer cane wood. Prizes include a Hike book and a pencil case. Chairs judged and displayed at A. J. Draper’s Abbot Street before sending to Cairns Hospital. Deliver by July 11 with name age and address.
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