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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 11, 1940
Page
2
This fragment outlines a crochet project for a garment, detailing needlework rounds, stitch counts, shaping for the crown, increasing and decreasing, and finishing steps. It mentions pattern repetition, casting off, and securing yarn with damp cloths and an iron.
A garbled page offers quirky kitchen notes on preserving fruit cakes with baking powder, cleaning basins with vinegar, and removing stains. It mentions cracking and chipping onions, boiling onions in water, grinding crumbs, and preventing skin on rolled milk by adding malt as it boils.
A scrambled OCR style kitchen item list with multiple recipe fragments and cooking steps. It mentions pear and passionfruit jam, Appia Cake, cake batter and ingredients, a steak and kidney pie, peach custard, bacon pie, chocolate pudding, and chocolate foam sauce. The text includes numerous misspellings, garbled phrases, and inconsistent units, but identifies dishes and some ingredients.
A cluttered page offers eye care lore advising sparing use of eye makeup and highlighting sparkling eyes as most attractive. It prescribes baths, borax mixtures, and homemade lotions to soothe tired or irritated eyes, with exercises and warming routines to improve comfort and appearance.
The piece recounts how the Red Cross emblem was born from Henri Dunant’s experiences at Solferino. It details his four days aiding the wounded, his book exposing the horrors, and the subsequent Geneva meeting that led to the Red Cross Society and the emblem on white. It closes with a reflection on tragedy, hope, and a more prosperous future for mankind.
Malaya service opportunities call for trained trade students to undertake 24 hour shifts as motor transport drivers. They will be required to serve in any part of the Empire for the duration of the war, with Great Britain as a base.
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