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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1928
Page
2
A reflective quote urges daily focus on the good in friends and foes, urging restraint in praising enemies and noting that true merit will reveal itself in time without help from others. The anonymous author emphasizes kindness, perspective, and moral balance in daily thought.
A child story narrates the Ill-mannered Wog living under a hill with rude servants. Dot, Dot’s family, and a dish of breakfast reveal the Wog’s dull trickery. The tale contrasts ill temper with a hope for polite manners and kindness.
A 19th or early 20th century guide details hand care using warm water with borax, diluted glycerine rosewater and lemon juice, and finishing with oatmeal dusting. It warns against pure glycerine on rough skin, advises rubbing to prevent chilblains, and suggests alum soaks and old gloves for ongoing protection.
Fragmentary list of individuals including K Whietelde, Shoob Romans, O O Munt, Hingle Edmonton, F McHugh Brisbane, R B T Mc Mann President, Cairns, N Sande bek Cairne, Miss K Rosa Deeral. No clear event context or complete details available.
Read as a health note on skin care in cold air. The article advises using simple home remedies like warm water and soda to soften and dry hands, noting that all types of hand treatment should produce a drying effect. It emphasizes the need to protect hands from cold and friction to prevent chapping.
Dear Rosemary, there was a small party at Meleod Street Cairns with many children. They played a threepence game, and Billy won a threepence but asked for more. His mother told him to take what he got or go without. Ice cream, lollies, fruit, and biscuits were available with some prizes. a tied string, a shawl, and a wooden toy were among items, and the event included music and cheer.
A set of childlike letters from Cairns dated May detailing pet topics, pen names, and club memberships. Children ask for badges, discuss dogs named Bill Spot and a dog bringing sticks, and describe joining or not joining the Home Circle and Cheerio Band. Messages reference Rainbow Fairy pen names and birthdays.
The Bairn Circle sends warm birthday wishes titled Gem of the East with many happy returns. Rosemary signs the note and the message captures the circle’s motto Do gas ns loving Ours in a celebratory, affectionate tone.
Dulcie Cowper and the Rainn are noted as sending sunflowers to the CWA Restroom with instruction to forward to Rosemary. The message requests Rosemary’s address details to complete delivery.
Rosemary writes from Cairns Dear Rosemary via Cairns Dear Rosemary and Mame Crele cheerfully greet Bairns. Rosemary says she is twelve on August 11 and will be in the first half of fifth grade. She mentions school friends and a birthday curiosity while sending best regards from Coral Isles area.
Fragmentary OCR yields a poem line about a little fairy with a brooklet of the valley signature. Reads as verse fragment with unclear full text and no clear event or date. Unable to determine full title or context beyond the lyric fragment and attribution.
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