Thought for Today The Upward Way
A brief devotional note urges daily self denial to bring readers nearer God, echoing Keble’s meditation on spiritual ascent and humble living.
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 27, 1929
Page
2
Children's Circle Mail From Bellenden Australia 1929
A short exchange from the Bellenden region shows Quisqualis writing from Cairns about a visit with her uncle and aunt, illness, heat, rain needed, mosquitoes, and granadilla packing to deter rats, replying to Rosemary with affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellenden
Rosemary
Cairns
Cairns Post
Quisqualis
Home Humor Warns About Breathing Microbes
A quirky dialogue humor piece shows George, a horse owner, a doctor advising deep breathing to destroy microbes, and a patient insisting on forcing them to breathe, highlighting a comic clash of roles and ideas.
Unclear Hints On Household Remedies And Tips
A confused list of old time household hints covers keeping flies away with green tomato leaves and ink removal from wool, treating sprains with hot water, cleaning with ammonia and other substances, constipation remedies, and various maintenance tips for fabrics, teeth, and cookware. The text is garbled and fragmented.
Reliable Recipes and Food Preparations From a Historic Pantry
A fragment describes chutney with onions apples dates and spices and notes gradual cayenne and ginger addition. It includes carrot ginger flavoring, a meat and suet mince pie with short crust, a custard-like pastry mixture, and a choux pastry base baked into pale crusts or crisp wafers.
Dear Rosemary from Cairns 1929 letter note
A Cairns dated letter from Florence Wickens to Rosemary recalls memories of a concert on November 8 last year and Florence’s departure for Brisbane on November 19. She promises a poem from Cardwell and closes with affectionate regards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairns
Rosemary
Greece
Biedie
Brisbane
Cardwell
Florence Wickens
Dempsey
Cairns Post
Bairns Circle Birthday Greetings For Mary Burdett
The Bairns Circle sends warm birthday wishes to Mary Burdett with the motto Laugh instead of worry. The note expresses affection and kind regards from the group for a joyous day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bairns
Burdett
Rosemary
Verses From Bairns Dutch Doll Town Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse noting a “Dutch Doll Town” with wooden figures and various cows disrupting play. It ends with a caller inviting readers to join the fun, signed “Sweet-jewelled-Rose” and attributed to May Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Henry
Selected Verses Recounts Youthful Orchard Memories
A reflective piece recalls the speaker’s early lives in a rural setting with birds, berries, and woodland friends. The aging narrator laments forgotten knowledge and compares past wisdom to a younger observer at their knee, acknowledging time’s passage and faded joys.
The Spring Quartette A Poem By Doremy Olland
A lyrical fragment describing a spring concert mood where listeners seek refreshment in music. Images of wings and winds evoke movement and memory with vivid phrases about silken eights, velvet streams, and dancing peasants under shifting light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doremy Olland
Christmas Card From Ravenshoe Miss Henry
A fragment from a Christmas card shows Marcia Henry of Ravenshoe with unclear text about reasons and tied to the minute. The note mentions burning up the body’s waste products in a cryptic line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qcisqudli
Marcia Henry
Ravenshoe
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