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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 29, 1926
Page
12
The advert lists hampers numbered four to seven with assorted bottles including beer, stout, ale, wine, whiskey, rum, brandy and sherry. It mentions quantities, prices in pounds, and substitutions if any item is unnecessary, plus a note about one chilling per dozen for parking.
Notices invite matrons and maids to address Rosemary care of the Cairns Post for communications and publishable items. Personal movements and verse competitions for children are announced, with 100 word limits and prizes. a narrative fragment from a story follows about Dicky and a spinner’s weaving.
Nov. 18 Dear Rosemary I want to join the Home Circle I am 9 years old in Second Class I can sew make a warmler kitten plays with my heel I am Goldendrop Yours Davies Cairne Pua Dear Inene Welcome to our Circle your birthday next time you feel calm you can sew Your pen name Carnation We have five cows I bring them home for milking Florence Pennicott Dear Florence Welcome to Home Circle Carnation is near Your birthday soon Your holid plans and pen name Then Myrtle Ten Hally Rick Calta 1 Post Wear Morilo Welcome to Home Circle The Mulgrave Ris looks cool and Team cure up with your dow Your daddy over that Bono then you will see the river far below You may have Sooty Black for your pen name
Rosemary Hy sings Home Sweet Home at a Thursday concert. The performance fills the Palace Theatre with emotion as the singer reflects on home, family, and the peaceful sanctuary childhood places provide despite family clashes and differing opinions.
A garbled letter page notes Dicky’s stubborn plan to peek at Santa on Christmas Eve and a motherly reminder that Santa may not visit if warned. It also includes children’s letters to Rosemary Cairns and Violet Smith seeking joining a circle, sharing pets, and a river swim, with friendly replies from Rose and Lavender.
A collage of handwritten letters and notes about family, pets, and home circle members. Messages mention a sea cat named nosediver, a parrot Snowy, a dog Lupet, and names like LAURIE WILSOK and SILVER WATTLE with playful exchanges about reading letters and joining the Home Circle.
A quirky miscellany offers practical hacks and odd remedies. It suggests using thick botike for potato masher work, white paper collars to stop icing, parsley on the sill for aroma, lemon rub for tough meat, cold water on a restless sleeper, an orange in the oven to ease a sore throat, and notes Ballarat Stout as a source of mournful sentiment from Samuel Allen and agents.
A fragmented poem extols beauty in faces eyes lips hands feet and shoulders with pious praise. It links honesty patience and labor to daily acts and quiet burdens, ending with a meditation on beauty in sleep and a grave.
A excerpt urges readers to stop lamenting hard luck and start embracing effort. It promotes patience, resilience, and learning from hardship to attract good fortune and build a productive mindset.
An archaic quatrain describes a tall man and four others marching silent. It hints at a hidden skeleton in a closet and a scheme to erase memories, projecting gloom and mischief as a plan to forget.
A readable fragment from Mareeba in November appears to outline plans for growth starting on 1 April and a focus on the Fourth Class for the latter half of the year. The writer signs as Dear Rosemary and references Christmas timing.
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