Thought for Today Try Again Do Not Harshly Judge
A brief note urges kindness to others and self forgiveness. It counsels avoiding fixation on faults and mistakes and ends with a gentle reminder about Adam, Sweet.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 16, 1929
Page
2
Comfort for the Invalids Room Makeover During Illness
A caregiver outlines a plan to convert a room into a bright cozy space for an invalid. It covers arranging two beds if needed, minimizing furniture, storing clothes, hanging pictures, using plain wallpaper, and placing a clock calendar and handy storage for small items to ease care and comfort.
The Return of the Blouse in Paris Fashion Shows
Fashions note the blouse’s revival this season with high waisted skirts and integrated bands. Old styles hid under skirts, but new blouses end at the waist or tuck inside skirt bands. Afternoon blouses feature satin and crepe de Chine with open stitch trims, lace inserts, and shoulder ruffles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
The Housekeeper Hints and Suggestions
A vintage guidance piece on cake making outlines essential steps. It covers weighing ingredients before mixing, drying fruit to prevent heaviness, beating eggs with a whisk, warming butter but avoiding oiliness, rubbing fat into flour to crumb texture, and careful oven handling. It advises testing doneness with a hot skewer, sieving icing sugar, managing oven heat for different cake sizes, and easing cake removal with damp cloth wraps.
Weights and measures misreadings in old cookbook measures
A fragment lists spoonful and cup measures for flour sugar eggs and fats, with equivalents such as I tablespoon flour heaped weighing 1 oz, 1 breakfast cupful equals pint, and gills, pints, and teaspoons defined, outlining pressed lumps and level measures.
HOME PASTIMES CURIOUS FORTY FIVE
A nostalgic puzzle and party game feature explains a math conundrum using the number forty five. It suggests four parts totaling 45 with operations yielding equal results. The piece then describes a bubble blowing contest using soap bubbles and glycerine, two teams, a cord across the room, and a scoring system for successful bubbles over the rope.
Importers ad for French herbs in Brisbane balance health
An advertisement from Mr. and Mrs. L Gordon at 220 Queen Street Brisbane invites readers to visit their shop for health remedies guaranteed or money refunded. The note emphasizes lack of concern for anxiety and promotes hours 11 to 4 on weekdays and 10 to 12 on Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Gordon
Queen-street
Brisbane
Opportunities Like Girls Embraced, A Reflective Note
A compact reflection posits that opportunities resemble girls in deserving bold embrace. The line suggests agency in seizing chances and shaping one’s path with proactive energy. The phrasing evokes a personal, contemplative tone about choice and growth.
Children Circle correspondent from Normanton postal page
Rosemary writes from Normanton on November 3 describing Christmas hopes, weather, and a cheerful note to the Bairns. She references Oliver Twist and a father caring for a letter box, with light chatter about clouds and rain and seasonal cheer.
Kulira School wins shield at Malanda meet and notes home
Dear Rosemary, Kulira School went to Malanda sports on November 2 and finished second, winning the Shield. The letter mentions a top student and sisters excelling in exams, water shortages at the school tank, and farmers' paddocks burning. Rosemary aside, the writer shares drawings and thoughts on fires and rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kularka
Rosemary
Kulira School
Malanda Sports
Ant
Cairns Post
Clive Brook
Birthday wishes from the Bairns Circle to Miss Innsfail and others
The Bairns Circle sends cheerful birthday greetings to Miss Innsfail Kiding Mum Blossom Star of many happy returns John stone Silvery Eye Sister Persevere Harry Hedgehog and others with mottos like Take courage Hitch your wagon to a star and to face trouble is to remove it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosemary
Johnstone
Harry Hedgehog
Anzac Park meeting for name papers distribution
On Monday afternoon at Anzac Park a gathering will distribute name paper certificates. Bring your name papers. certificates issued will be for papers brought in at Anzac Park after noon. If rain prevents, the event may be postponed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anzac Park
Bairns Promoted Call for Names and Ages
All Bairns and Cheeries thirteen years of age and over are asked to send in their names pen names and birthdays to Rosemary at 9 for promotion to the Mutual Help Circle. Mothers grandmothers and aunts may join too. I will help you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosemary
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