Fancy Art Silke and Ladies Wear Featured in Clean Sweep Sale
A cluttered vintage listing shows a Clean Sweep sale offering various textiles and garments including Fancy Art Silke fabrics, Coloured Fuji De Luxe prints, Ladies lawn and crepe items, children's hats, kimonos, vests, embroidered organdi hats, tea towels, linen towels, mosquito nets, and British Fuji pyjama sets. Prices range from a few shillings to several pounds, with assorted pairs and sizes noted.
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Malty
Household tips for cooking and preserving food
A column of practical kitchen hints covers cooling custard without curdling, preventing a skin on cooled mixtures, preparing potatoes without excess fat, reviving stale cake with cold milk, cleaning a coffee pot, and boiling eggs without cracking. It also notes using white of egg and sugar in yolk preservation, and keeping yolks fresh with a splash of water.
Birthday greetings from the Bairns Circle
The Bairns Circle sends affectionate birthday wishes and mottos. Rosemary signs with love and encouragement, urging to make the most of life as she expresses warm regards to Mary and others.
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Levi Mary
Home Cook Crabs and Rice Pudding Novel Dishes
Odd recipe fragment describes making a crab dish with boiled eggs oil and lemon on lettuce leaves. It then shifts to a pudding named for its coloring red and white using milk, red jelly and rice shaped into balls brushed with jelly and cooled. Angelica leaves decorate the dish.
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York Tet Litter Rover
Fang i
Homemade Drinks Described For Summer Thirst Quenchers
An excerpted home remedy section details numerous lemonade and cordial preparations. It describes squeezing lemons, mint infusion, sugar, and water mixes, plus steps for chilling, carbonating with soda, and flavoring with cucumber, lemon rind, citric acid, tartaric acid, and honey. Various quantities are given and methods include boiling, steeping, and serving over ice.
Dear Rosemary from Cairns Childrens Circle Note
A letter from Cairns Children’s Circle reader Rosemary thanks the paper for birthday wishes. The writer asks about garden birds and weather, inquires about the local hospital and hopes patients recover soon, ending with affectionate signs of love.
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Cairns
Rosemary
Rosemary Sends Poetic Memento to Kind Friends
Fragmentary note expresses gratitude and affection. The writer Rosemary thanks kind people for poetry and mentions a hopeful wish for a place to go when in need, closing with loving regards.
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Rosemary
Meat Jellies From Leftover Meats
Economical guidance on making meat jellies from beef mutton veal or mixed cold meats. Remove fat bones and gristle, cut fine, place parsley and halved eggs in moulds, layer meat and optional ingredients like capers and chutney for neat serving.
Verses From Bairns Fairy Time
A short verse fragment describes fairies in fields and woods with dandelion clocks marking time. It mentions Edna Bell sending the piece from Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard and evokes sunny days and leafy woods as bluebells chime.
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Edna Bell
Tully CWA Hosts Free Evening for Local Youth
The Tully CWA held a free evening at the CWA Hall on Wednesday to bring residents together especially the younger set. A large crowd enjoyed community singing with old time songs led by Mr Dingle and Mr Alec Strang. solos by O’Donahe and others drew praise, with dances and games also featuring. Miss D Benjamin accompanied singing, and the event was well received as the Old Time Evening proved popular.
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C.W.A
Tully C.W.A
Dingle
Alec
Strang
O'Donahe
D. Benjamin
Social Evening Honors Miss Hazel Johnston in Gordonvale
On March 13 the Gordonvale choir held a social evening to honor Miss Hazel Johnston who has led the church organ for over five years. The event featured games competitions elocutionary and musical items. Reverend Hugh Rodger spoke praising her service and presented toilet requisites as thanks. The gathering was hosted at Mrs Cattle’s home with thanks offered for use of the venue.
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Gordonvale
Hazel Johnston
Miss Johnston
Hugh Rodger
Rodger
Mrs Cattle
Toying Bairn SUSNY SUNSHINE Letter Home
A personal note from Susny Sunshine to Rosemary expresses happiness at a newspaper letter, mentions school starting, fatigue from lessons, home playtime with sisters, and hopes for future correspondence. It includes warm family tones and casual sign-offs.
Riddles and Replies Q A Muddled Letter Riddle
A garbled riddle presents a questioning line about what Ras neither Ea Seat fear fine BoA oes ater pon Ae hecanae ke Wipers Halsian wo ooh 4 ae ne lo om ah, likely a wordplay puzzle with scrambled phrases and names.
McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets Promoted
An advertising pitch touts cod liver oil tablets as tasteless and easier to take, claiming benefits for growth and weight gain. The copy targets children and adults, promises quick results, and urges purchase from Chemus stores.
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McCoy
Nouelad
Femat Om WteCon
Tate
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