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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 24, 1929
Page
2
A weekly Brisbane column recounts rainy day gatherings and social events. Sir John and Lady Goodwin attend the C.W.A. Home opening and Nazareth House ball suffers in downpour. The Bush Book Club meets. Mrs. Gilbert Wilson's pupils perform. Mr. O. J. Lansdowne previews fashions while visiting Australian delegates enjoy civic events and garden parties.
An old advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a cure for child illness caused by constipation and slow liver function. It claims quick relief, improved digestion, and brighter mood, urging parents to buy Califig with directions and pricing.
A compact reflection noting that the best governed forms come from prudent faith and charity. It laments flawed reasoning and asserts moral progress rests on hope and works, urging charitable action as mankind’s real concern.
A collection of old fashioned recipes and cooking tips detailing fish cakes steamed desserts and fruit preserves. The page lists ingredients like fish bread crumbs milk eggs butter and spices with instructions for steaming frying and boiling to yield served dishes and suggested garnishes. It preserves era tone and culinary variety with multiple dishes including a banana dessert and quince preparation.
Recipe for a summer drink using essences of winger cap sicum lemon and critic acid with sugar and boiling water. Dissolve sugar in water over heat, add essences and citric acid, stir until cool, bottle with tight corks, and color with burnt sugar. Optional lemon essence for variation.
A comic home humor piece centers on a wedding couple and a string of family quips. The dialogue riffs on marriage, mother in laws, love, and a chauffeur scheme. A joking buyer laments a dead horse while a helper dismisses trouble with wit.
A collection of short letters from young readers in Cairns Post style, dated October 1929. Girls Nawaley Hartman and Marjorie Kemp write about joining Home Circle and Cheerio. Rosemary Watsonville replies. Other exchanges welcome pen names Snowdrop and Snowfield as introductions to a growing Bairns group.
The Bairns Circle sends joyous birthday wishes to many named individuals including Joy vel Lily white Waverly Rose Alpine tes Francesia and Jack Hoxie with mottos about hope, beauty, and keeping on. The letter closes with Merry Erie Morn me Bells and a line about three things to love courage gentleness affection.
Advert appears to tout McCoy's Cod Liver Compound Tablets as a safe weight gain tonic for children and the underweight. It claims a thin woman gained 10 pounds in 22 days and offers an ironclad guarantee: if no weight gain after four 8 flask treatments, the purchase price is returned.
Fragmented lines recounting Mrs Eo fheeiu and Tamers, a mention of Marl play and Hy ly qua. References to Mrs RL Wouty Mw and a holiday tension among Samigvue Wren. unclear names, places, and dates.
The Edmonton branch of the Q C W A held special meetings to finalize plans for the shelter shed at the leal sports site. Donations funded by member contributions and local support push the project toward completion with tendering and fundraising events planned. A rain evening at Mrs G Dossette’s home and a tea stall at Edmonton’s carnival support Ambulance services and Baby Choice activities, with gratitude expressed to donors and volunteers.
A collection of domestic tips on odors from onions and silver cleaning. Advice covers using mustard to repel onion smell, polishing silver with brake linseed and leather, avoiding soda for scrubbing, soap and water as cleansing, water from boiled onions for gilt frames, adding candle shavings to starch for a crisper iron, and boiling potatoes briefly before baking. Also notes feeding children at school age.
Fragmentary OCR yields scattered phrases about Paris, fashion, and makeup with references to a queen city and a Morini archetry. The jumbled lines mention a powder that makes a person look pretty, tea or hosiery, and various oblique allusions to women and beauty in Paris.
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