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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1938
Page
3
Fashion notes describe a shift from severe trims to graceful lace hats. Sailor shapes with small brims suit the bob haircut, while pill-boxes remain popular for many face shapes. High back brims and deep bands rise, with trims featuring flowers, velvet ribbon, birds, ostrich feathers, quills, and bows as veils reappear.
Directions describe making an attractive lampshade and blotter from buckram and wire, including overlap techniques, binding with adhesive tape, and adding an orange silk cord. It also covers decorating a cover with felt towers and daisies in orange, yellow, black, and green, plus pencil placement and adhering pieces to buckram for a decorative display.
The text offers a string of domestic hints and recipes. It mentions washing amber in milk and polishing with a chamois, using talc in shoes, whitening clothes with crushed shells, dissolving blueing in water, lemon for cutlery, and various cleaning methods for knives, skewers, and cake testing. It reads like stray guidance from a vintage household column.
A fragmented recipe item outlines banana layer cake, strawberry cream puffs, and strawberry short cake. It lists ingredients such as mashed banana, butter, flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, strawberries, and cream with basic methods for mixing, baking, and assembling the layers and decorations. The text preserves the period cooking tone and contains several garbled phrases and misspellings from OCR.
A handwritten style recipe for Passion Fruit Cream Cake Mix self raising flour salt vanilla essence and sugar with milk to form batter bake in a ring tin then layer with passion fruit cream and chocolate icing Butter and sugar beaten then eggs milk added Text includes several garbled words and alternate steps but preserves core cake structure and frosting idea.
Joseph Henry Allmott Jr. of Myrtletown was killed when a motor truck ran over him on Hamilton Road Brisbane after swerving to avoid a hole. His parents, Mr and Mrs T H Allmott, drove past, drawing a crowd to the scene as the boy, riding a bicycle, died before aid could arrive.
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