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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 20, 1926
Page
2
A call to Cairns Post readers to send letters and notes to Rosemary for the Home Circle column. Includes guidance for children contributors, personal notices, and how communications will be published, with word limits and delivery details for participants.
The text mentions a centre item, staining or finishing furniture and floors, and cleaning routines. It references painting a kitchen area, staining furniture, and possible time trade offs between sewing or gardening. No clear events or people are described.
A rainy day memory where Jolie and Jessie Sanders visit Julie and make dolls rain coats. They fashion coats from tablecloth pieces with pinking, cutouts and doll head holes. Julie plans a playful scene at home as they finish crafting and later sew coats for dolls.
A cropped, year old letters page from Cairns features children writing to Rosemary, sharing ages birthdays and school life. They discuss joining a Home Circle, pets like a cat named Handy, and marvel at the work of writing back. The exchanges reveal friendly community contact and young readers engaging with correspondents.
A jumble of letters from Cairns children describes pen names such as Spider Lily and Eucharist Lily, mentions homes in Aloomba and Cairns, pets like a dog named Boser and a cow-loving pet, and asks for guidance on crafting names and home circle participation. The notes include greetings to Margie and Stella and reference a Home Circle context.
Fragment from V E Prewett papers and poems in CLOVER, detailing a woman's life from infant to matron, motherhood, and midwifery notes, interwoven with reflections on destiny, mystery, and the threefold form of existence. Includes moral maxims by McCormick Keering.
Tomatoes are a useful fruit and good for the dyer. They suit salads, cold meat, and sun warmed eating. The following recipes offer ways for readers with tomatoes growing in their gardens to use them, including a parsley tomatoes accompaniment for lunch.
The text details steps for preparing tomatoes with melted butter parsley and bacon, then roasting halved tomatoes, and finishing with a cheese sauce, followed by a tomato and vinegared oil glaze. It also includes a marginal recipe section for tomato preserves and a concluding fruit or cake-like preparation with sugar syrup and sterilised jars. This reads like a mid- to late-19th century household cookbook fragment.
A fancy dress ball at Monritvan School of Arts celebrated the library opening and the water at the Sports lah. Queenie Heagle and Fr J Jackson won top costumes, with Dolly Ninnis and Me Phe as host couple. Ladies and gents provided elaborate attire, while visitors inspected the library and its display of items, praised for the event.
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