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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 12, 1940
Page
2
Fashion notes highlight top trends in women’s handbags featuring suede in cranberry and wine, green and black, carved shell mounts, gilt fittings, and crocodile textures. Styles range from shopping bag shapes with practical handles to traveling kits, with bejeweled pearls, sequins, and quilted velvet accents.
A vintage health piece outlines hair growth factors and scalp nourishment using vaseline and natural tonics. It cites jaborand and rosemary as nourishing agents, with tips on massage, cleansing, and antiseptic rinses to combat greasy or dry conditions. It ends noting Germany's 1940 tax estimates totaling 38 billion marks.
A collection of household hints covering jam preservation, cake and pastry techniques, and cooking shortcuts. Tips include glycerine in fruit jams, cream of tartar with butter and sugar, heating bowls over hot water, fruit juice as a milk substitute in cakes, and using lemon juice to improve digestibility and whiten vegetables. Also advice on icing, pastry, and avoiding boiling over.
Cream butter and sugar add egg and salt then mix with chopped nuts and baking powder to form shapes and bake quickly. Roll a water dough, rest, roll and cut into sticks sprinkle seeds, bake hot. Summer biscuits combine butter sugar eggs flour and spices, roll, cut, bake, decorate with jam and chopped nuts.
A sensational note claims two flies weighing a grain of wheat can, in a single summer, produce about 5.59 trillion full grown descendants. The piece likens this to a health warning about flies carrying disease and their impact on human consumption.
A fragmented recipe section describes making honey cakes by creaming butter with brown sugar and honey, adding eggs, sour milk, baking powder, and cayenne, then rolling thin paste, topping with egg white glaze and walnuts, and baking. It also outlines biscuits with butter, sugar, eggs, salt, rolling, cutting, and icing, plus a citrus icing for color.
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