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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 18, 1941
Page
2
A quirky guide mixes craft and grooming advice. It covers macrame jewelry making from twine including steps for a choker and beads, plus cosmetic tips for dry skin and lubrication routines. The piece blends DIY fashion with health hints and product recommendations.
The text describes making braided collars using vandyke and rich cack braids and sewing tips for collars and cuffs. It then shifts to skin care advice noting protection for dry and sensitive skin, recommending protective makeup and cautious cleansing with soap to avoid irritation.
Useful hints describe drying stockings with tissue, cleaning felt hats with salt and Aganel, ironing trousers with back crease first, and dyeing faded trousers. It notes boiling water, soap lather, and a vinegar like rinse to refresh whites. A whitening mixture and aspirin addition are mentioned for perspiration stains.
A vintage recipe fragment outlines picnic options including lettuce kept in a screw top jar, plus two rolled savory snacks with chicken or ham, and a tomato and vegetable terrine. It also mentions a butter cake, a date walnut loaf, and a lemon walnut cake, with bake times and measurements scattered through the text.
Wartime guidance from Sir John Orr urges farmers to boost output by selecting livestock with highest efficiency. He compares ratios like cow to pig and bullocks, stressing minimal meat needed to provide essential vitamins and minerals. Emphasis is placed on vegetables, milk, potatoes, and affordable imports of wheat and fat to meet daily nutrition.
In London Evening Standard copy, scientists from the Rockefeller Institute and British researchers work on a flu vaccine. They aim to counter distemper and influenza strains with breakthrough methods developed after World War II, noting the vaccine’s early trials and the challenge of cross strain effectiveness.
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