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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 31, 1930
Page
2
A garbled mix of culinary directions and a stray poem line appears. Instructions for making tomato preserves with ginger and sugar mix with bread dough, plus a note about baking bread without yeast for isolated homes. The text blends names and nonsensical phrases with incomplete steps.
An early guidance piece on fostering cheerfulness in infants, stressing that temperament is shaped by parental attitude. It advises consistent, positive responses to a child’s distress, modeling optimism, and engaging in shared joy to prevent future unhappiness and develop resilience.
A fragmented home recipe lists ingredients and steps for a winter dish. It mentions vinegar salt margarine and spices like cinnamon and cloves. Scattered phrases describe soaking cooling boiling adding fruit raisins and sealing jars, with references to preparation timing and measurements.
Innisfail May 6 1930 letters from children to Rosemary describe rain conditions in Cairns and talk of badges puppies and upcoming concert events. Rosemary replies from May 9 noting messages and playful notes about a dog Darkie.
A collage of dated letters from Cairns residents to Rosemary and Pansy Bloom recount daily life in 1930s and 1934. The notes mention Martyn Street addresses, new homes, gardening, schooling, and Easter rituals, with personal greetings, birthday mentions, and weather observations.
A dated, garbled birthday greeting page lists several circles such as The Hallas Circle The Bains Circle The Rane Circle The Bourss Circle and The Tiarrne Circle sending many happy returns. It includes mottos like Think twice speak once Each day will set its proper task and Make the aim of fire and mentions names Rosemary and Charles Farrell in fragmentary lines.
The piece outlines the holiday essay judging criteria and credits MM Mulgrave Street Catrns for a 1930 submission. It recounts a writer’s holidays spent at home, beach evenings, a Kuranda visit to see the falls, a Pine Creek lunch, a station wait, and fern and stinging tree observations before signing off as Sheila Power from Evening Bell.
An old verse extols the power of a wholesome smile as a blessing that travels far. It compares smiles to gems and light, noting how a single cheerful expression can brighten hearts during hard times and ease the cares that wrinkles bring.
Two men fishing by the river joke about catching a water otter. They haul in a kettle attached to the end, after a tune one calls to the other noting the absurd catch and the kettle’s steaming oddity. The pair, named Bill and Munths Joe, swap quips in a light rural humor vignette.
Health anxiety tips echo a shop note offering Torgut circular remedies. The ad promises guaranteed use with refunds, listing hours 11 to 4 weekdays and 10 to 12 Saturdays, while misprinted lines advertise importers of French verbs and medical sun dries at 720 Queen Street.
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