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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1937
Page
3
A lively note urges restraint on spring shopping as new prints and colors tempt, warning that early purchases often backfire. It highlights fresher textures in woollens and silks, mentions vivid small designs that may reveal animal or floral motifs, and suggests matching lipstick to tone rather than exact shade.
Practical tips on lip exercises and shaping for a natural look. Emphasizes massage, avoiding biting, smoothing lipstick from center outward, and moistened application to prevent feathering. Warns that obvious lipstick marks and artificiality degrade beauty and grooming quality.
A DIY note shows how to craft a decorative sealed box for a bedroom using three empty kerosene or petrol cases. The fragment hints at steps beginning with placing a seal and assembling the components, but the text ends abruptly.
Fragments provide tips on moth prevention with camphor and silk stockings, rug cleaning methods, whitening linen with borax, soda paste for scorch marks, door polishing with petrol, stocking soaking, fur cleaning, and a long list of improvised cake and pastry recipes with ingredients and steps, reflecting a cluttered vintage domestic column.
An old fashioned recipe compilation outlines making almond paste decorations, sponge cake scraps, and several cake varieties. It covers almond paste figures for cake toppers, faux butterfly cakes with jam and mock cream, velvet cakes with boiled icing, and Welsh tea cakes.
An old advertisement touts Woods' Great Peppermint Cure as a remedy for bronchial coughs colds and influenza. The text emphasizes its peppermint formula and claims rapid relief.
A garbled excerpt discusses cures for acid symptoms and a claimed four hour window to see effects. It mentions inflammation and reassurance that those involved are doing you good in a general health context.
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