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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 16, 1930
Page
2
A Rainbow Walk with a Fairy
Hibbie and Bibbie share a magical rainbow journey guided by a Fairy. They float over a hill on a glowing arc, collect rainbow balls, and glimpse a distant Evening Star as the rainbow fades and return home to a twilight garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bibbie
Sal
Ramnbow
Bitte
Bibb c
Bib
Ribbie
Aline
Miss Billie Dove Stars in New National Film Promotion
The advertisement promotes Miss Billie Dove as a premier national film star and highlights a beauty cream named Chrome Charisman. It claims the product restores youth, clears the skin, and keeps makeup in place for hours, with a price of 2 shillings 6 pence per large jar sold widely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Dove
America
Powler
Kennedy Creek Letters Aims at Sydney Visit in 1900
A fragment of a 1900 children’s correspondence from Kennedy Creek mentions holidaying in Sydney and back home, with a note about a friend’s death, a creek swim, school, and a child’s letter to a pen pal. It includes a poem fragment and questions about life in Sydney and local fauna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmehan
Kennedy Creek
Rotemary
Sudney
Tally
Kennedy
Paruey
Spain
Sydney
Sweet Angel
Mariel Kennedy
Postcard letters from Cairns settle into Mossman
A jumble of affectionate notes from Rosemary and Pearly Dewdrop in 1950 Cairns Post letters describe weather, hawks attacking pigeons, eggs in huts, and local life. Rosemary writes about cars, streets, hens, and daily worries while Pearly Dewdrop mentions a school sports day, pen friends, a railways minister visit, and a promised holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairns
Farry Batterly
Front Street
Mossman
Rosemary
Wehot
Berry
Morgan
Railways
King
Inmsfal
Peggie Harper
Cairns Post
Bairns Circle Birthday Greetings From Local Groups
A garbled notice from several local circles sends quirky birthday wishes. Names like Rosa mond Jane Blossom Fairy Vincess Ewer Thorn appear in misspelled phrases with playful mottos and affectionate sign offs.
Wards of Greeting Circles Send Birthday Wishes
A battered note lists multiple circles offering birthday wishes to individuals such as Esther Rolston Ali Baha Lady Rosville and others. The message includes mottos about duty and happiness and phrases from various club circles. It reads like a social annuity from a community page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marrns
Anzac Park Meeting Planned If Weather Holds
If fine, the Bairys and Cheerios plan a gathering at Anzac Park this Monday afternoon from four to five o clock. No meeting if morning rain leaves grass too wet. all-day rain sends Pairns and Cherries directly to the park sod not to the Carns Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anzac Park
Name Papers and Marks Allotted in Dover Deprese
Fragmentary notes show names Dorothy Richard and Dover Deprese with marks allotted and an OT list fragment. The readable text lists 0 marks and references papers, suggesting a civil or administrative filing context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover Deprese
OT Oarths
Dorothy Richard
Marks
Pen Friends Wanted by Readers in Australia
Letters invite young readers to write as pen friends to Tessie Lepmath in Bluebell Field and Joan Bates at Cherry Orchard while Peggy Harper of Mossman and another child seek correspondence from Cairns. Rosemary signs the notice urging exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tessie Lepmath
Bluebell Field
Marevha
Joan Bates
Cherry Orchard
Joan
Mulerave-street
Cairns
Peggy Harper
Pearly Dewdrop
Front-street
Mossman
Rosemary
Riddles and jokes forwarded by Miss V Sontar
A humor page presents light Q and A jokes including a spoon stir gag an animal from clouds a Noah Ark pun and a shut up tongue jibe. The piece credits Miss V Sontar as the forwarder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss V. Sontar
Elaborate Recipe Fragments Mixed With Courtroom Anecdotes
A garbled mix of culinary instructions for savory spreads and salads, followed by brief courtroom dialogue about domestic violence and a powder mill explosion. The text juggles recipes for keftas, grape fruit salad, and ham on toast with a separate anecdote where a judge questions a witness about a black eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Summary of Bacon Flavour Recipes and Hearty Soups
A mid 20th century cooking column offers recipes for potato cakes with bacon, two soups and variations. The potato cakes use mashed potatoes flour salt pepper and butter fried until brown, topped with grilled bacon. Soups include a tomato and vegetable stock soup with carrots onions and parsley thickened with cornflour, and a barley soup with barley, onion and milk, finished with egg yolk and cheese. A potato shell dish with cheese and hard boiled egg is also described, plus an egg and potato pulp topping baked and browned.
Humorous rant ends with fear in court case
A rambling dialogue describes laughter and its nature, referencing a judge's plan to confront a defendant. The text notes the wife being frightened as the prisoner testified and she refused to answer when called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aoman
Esart
Oddities and domestic vignettes from a small town
A narrated mix of quirky events and conversations. A man questions the effectiveness of medicine with comic directions about bottle corking. Observations include a cow, a horse fly, a walking board, and a nightfall scene. A Swiss hotel telegram tray gag appears beside a fiancée tale about Griggs and his mother’s view on wealth and marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swiss Mountains
Prairies Dream and Dawn in a Poem by Flora Rivola
A poetic meditation recalls a prairie scene where a woman tends animals at dawn and dusk. The piece leans on vivid imagery of misty hair linen oats and Delft-blue ware, concluding with the speaker's reverent end of day gratitude.
Be the Best of Whatever You Are Inspiring Quote
An inspirational line urges embracing one's role and striving for excellence in any path. It emphasizes size and effort as keys to rising, encouraging perseverance and self-improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leoine
Nurcom
Sheags de Grym
Mayers Oo
Two aviators set to fly from Le Bourget in Atlantic challenge
Paris June 12 M Costes aviation line known as the Point Interrogation is ready at Le Bourget awaiting favorable weather. The race to the first takeoff is between Costes and Kingsford Smith with the latter delayed by mid Atlantic westerlies. Costes won the International Air Federation gold medal for best world record achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Costes
le Bourget
Kingsford Smith
Westerlies
mid-Atlantic
International Air Federation
Dr Sheldon New Discovery for Colds and Coughs
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Sheldon New Discovery as a reliable cure for coughs colds bronchitis pleurisy and similar ailments. It promotes ease of use and widespread availability in two sizes 19 and 30.
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Sheldon
Dr. Sheldon
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