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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 20, 1941
Page
8
A compact reflective note urges keeping room for beauty and memory. It sketches that judgment reflects back on the viewer, echoing a biblical cadence with a paraphrase of mercy and discernment. The paragraph-like fragment reads as a devotional musing rather than a news item.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday wishes with several mottos and cheerful messages. Multiple phrases praise cheer, humor, and resilience, each segment expressing best wishes for the day and year ahead.
A scrambled compilation contrasts insults about appearance with odd claims about turpentine production and plant relatives. It mentions a mystery skin disease in a child, and criticizes petrol truck practices with unsafe rigging using chain and rope to aid small boys and brake systems, hinting at a late-page answer section.
Fragmented notes recount a pen friend request and requests for songs. The writer mentions a boy coming home and asks for words from two Little Darling pieces. The letter ends with wishes for health and a sign off from Olive Kirby.
Alma O Weill Cairns Post asks Jeanette for a pen name and a Cairns pen friend, sharing age about to turn twelve, past measles recovery, and a kitten story. Jeanette replies with March Maid as a potential name, notes a weekly letter plan, and sends a five badge.
A fragmentary note outlines a simple sentence prayer for peace and healing amid war. It references a World League of Prayer and Service with no meetings, officials, or subscriptions and invites card requests or quantities via a penny.
An eyewitness recounts a night in a London air raid shelter during a bombing raid. The narrator describes cramped conditions, gas fumes, and a terrified crowd before an all clear. People search for missing loved ones as buildings crumble and a warden leads a single file evacuation to a concrete street shelter.
The article profiles Jean Arthur as she visits a movie studio and is drawn into the role in the epic Westey Roggles Arizona. It notes her shy, self conscious nature before filming turns to stage presence, her quiet Brentwood life with husband Frank Ross, and her love of animals, books, and decor. Arthur’s performance alongside William Holden is highlighted as a potential boost to her screen fame.
London mannequins head to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro to showcase British designers Creed Lachame Dag Morton Paquin Peter M Victor Stiebel Worth. Nine London dressmakers craft new gowns from cotton silk satin and lace using fabrics from Britain for spring displays organized under the United Kings.
Fragmentary OCR describes a tray cloth lamp project using drawn thread work centered with a circle motif. It notes damp fabric and pressing to shape over parchment, with unclear steps and several garbled words.
A terse fragmented reminiscence describes moving at a 70 degree angle toward an alley, a flat, and an encounter with police. It mentions two friends not being firm and a reference to a legendary figure, then notes that the speaker’s cats did not arrive.
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