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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 27, 1938
Page
14
A compact reflective note urges simple living with three meals a day and courteous prayers. It advises good digestion, avoiding biliousness, and steady exercise while recommending patience and a peaceful approach to happiness.
Letters from Meerawa and Cairns Post readers describe ongoing rain and a hail storm near Aloomba. Jeannette and others discuss pen friends in New Zealand, Christmas plans, the Meerawa School fancy dress on October 22, and the Home Circle's continued correspondence amid family changes and upcoming holidays.
The Bairns Circle offers birthday wishes to Sleeping Beauty Fairy Cordmother and Fanged Daisy. They share mottos about laughter, memory, and time, wishing them many happy returns and noting the value of using time well.
A scanned recipe fragment lists pumpkin cake with honey sauce and fig custard. Steps include creaming butter and sugar, adding egg, mixing with dry spices, baking patty tins, and a honey cornflour sauce. A fig custard with milk, cornflour, eggs, sugar, and lemon juice is described, then baked and served hot or cold.
Mix one tablespoon suet with two cups flour a pinch of salt and two teaspoons baking powder. Add water to form dough wrap cape gooseberries cut into quarters, shape into dumplings and boil twenty minutes. Serve hot with cape gooseberry jam and cream.
Saturday night at Butcher's Creek Hall the annual ball saw Mrs Neal decorate the venue with district assistance. Miss H Walker and Mr Garrety provided extras. Miss M Homerke won the novelty waltz with her partner and Mr R Weck took the door prize while Mr Chap tan claimed the other prize. The following Monday a thunderstorm brought relief to farmers. Mr and Mrs Peters Cairns and Mr and Mrs FE Gordon visited from the State school.
A vintage ad extols Charmosan face powder as a luxurious, France-sourced cosmetic that brightens and smooths skin, claiming it postpones signs of aging and offers a refined, youthful tone. It warns cheaper powders cause open pores and blackheads, urging readers to buy the best for superior beauty.
The Edmonton State School fancy dress ball at Reid's Hall on Friday drew about 290 children in plain and fancy costumes. Prizes included hooks and toys, a sit down supper for all, and a 1030 pm dance with Mr A Petersen as master of ceremonies. Winners spanned ages from one to fourteen with a Bride and Bridegroom pairing among special prizes.
Thursday broadcasting timetable lists station slots from 4QG 4QR and 4G with local news at intervals. Entries include 6.30 4QG SES Close and 12.40 4QG 60 4QR, plus 6.10 4QR and 11 Close. Local news appears at multiple points.
The listing outlines a busy Melbourne schedule with stock exchange updates, weather bulletins, midday and afternoon musical programs, sports notes, and international news segments. Notable acts include The Watchman and The Play's the Thing, with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performances and late night music.
Cairns station lists a full day of programs from 7:45 am to 10:30 pm including Bright Breakfast, Midday Metrecines, Smile Club, Dad and Dave, Troubadours, Coronets of England, How the Other Half Lives and River Reveries with Rhythm Sessions and music features.
Bridget Dowling, who married Hitler's half brother Alois and is now Irish at heart, seeks to regain British nationality. She has been German subject since Austria's annexation, cites divorce as barrier, and notes her son Willie works as an English correspondent in Berlin while Alois runs a restaurant.
The text notes a medieval superstition that fever could be treated by wearing a spider inside a matshell as a neck amulet.
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