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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 07, 1941
Page
8
The Bairns Circle sends birthday wishes to multiple figures nicknamed Tartan Fairy Snow White Rainbow Cloud Fairy Silver Wattle Fairy Nasturtium Hyae mth and Custard Apple Blossom. Each wish includes a short motto about happiness, effort, and goodwill.
Dear Jeanette writes from Warrego Street Cairns to Jeanette about roses and a garden, notes on a visit to Mocknade Nine miles outside Ingham and Lucinos Point, and mentions holidays and a scrapbook. Pond Lotus Lily signs as Cairns Post correspondent.
A narrator recalls a two week family seaside trip starting near New Year. They describe walking to the beach with mother and siblings, visiting the river behind their home, floods nearby, and swimming most afternoons with friends.
Reading fragment mentions bread slices and a mysterious phrase about a dish. No clear people, places, or organizations are identifiable.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names and dates but lacks coherent event or context to summarize a distinct news item. No identifiable persons, places, or actions form a complete item for a card.
A personal birthday message mentions Fal Shiney and Plemm Fitsperski with greetings to Viiolet Erceg and others. The note references street addresses Innisfail and Violet Erceg in Dapoonvale via Sill 4, and expresses best wishes.
The columnist DeMonde ranks twenty four leg lines as the sexiest in film, based on measurements from Silk stockings and hose lines. He claims his list reflects dancers and performers whose leg muscles are most pronounced and whose stage presence enhances dancing.
A set of trivia prompts asks which Irving Berlin song is by the American composer, identifies prewar uses of the Polish currency the zloty, traces the snood origin among various groups, pairs famous men with their wives, and defines a wind rope.
Amid wartime evacuation, about 7000 children aged 11 to 15 from London areas like Newcastle are housed in camps with capacity for 350 per dormitory. Camps offer safe, healthy surroundings, countryside access, and new education, with calls to expand numbers and add recreation rooms as Parliament votes on funding.
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