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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 17, 1941
Page
2
The excerpt blends fashion notes on striped summer wear with sewing and cleaning tips. It describes sheer fabrics, silhouettes, waist emphasis, and decorative jewelry. It also shifts to kitchen instructions for pastry making, dough handling, and baking temperatures, all in a single mixed style.
A clipping advises renewing shabby umbrellas with a home treatment. Dissolve a tablespoon of agar in half a pint of boiling water, dip a sponge, rub the canopy from top to bottom, let dry hanging with the umbrella open. Do not stand it paint-downwards, nor leave wide open to avoid rust and silk damage.
Fragmented recipe text describes banana chiffon tarve with butter gelatin lemon juice and milk, then pineapple marshmallow topping with gelatin sugar boiling water and pineapple flavouring. Includes steps to bake pastry case whip cream fold fruit and chill.
A garbled radio transcript shows slogans urging withdrawal from fighting Russia and peace with Britain. It claims Western powers deploy aircraft and arms to the east while touting Soviet resilience and criticizes Allied bombings. The text reflects confused sentiment and wartime fatigue.
An account recounts two orphaned girls found among wolves at a remote Indian outpost. Kamala and Amaia were cared for by natives after native watchers captured them. They reportedly learned to stand, speak a few words, and lived in a strange, moving, almost animallike existence.
Four seamen from English ships describe four months in a Vichy camp, then ashore in French West Africa after a life boat ordeal. They allege abuse by native troops, beatings with rifles, and filth and insects in the camp. They say they were forced to carry water and transported to the frontier by ferries in British territory as fears of invasion spread.
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