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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
2
The fragment lists various entries including names such as Kennedy Nate and von er teh Rew, with mentions of farm produce, breeds, and class categories. It appears as a catalog or prize list from a fair or event, interspersed with scattered locations and partial titles.
Local dairy and culinary judging lists reveal participants led by Mrs R Pogue and Mrs Haynes with multiple entries in cake, scones, lamingtons, and jam tarts. The event features several named entrants from Toolamba and surrounding areas, including Mrs Coldwell, Miss Russell, and Mr McCormack, with prizes noted for various baked goods and confections.
A long list of entries from a school or fair details winners and participants in craft and writing categories. Notable names include Judith McKay Myra Gilmour Barbara Green Mona Maidment and May Keddie with items such as baskets of flowers maps of Canada and Tasmania essays and handwork projects. Prizes include first places in work books maps and various needlework entries.
A list of homemade preserves and related items from local sellers including apricot jam, orange marmalade, quince jelly, grape jelly, and grapefruit jam. Names like Miss Semin Ly Mra T Naughton Mrs TE Harris and Mrs Gil Colie appear alongside products such as honey, pickles, and marmalades with multiple entries per seller.
Flow ers and names appear in a fragmented notice likely recalling a bouquet event or memorial for Mollie Deneher aged 14 with several individuals listed. The readable elements indicate a personal remembrance or unspecified public notice featuring multiple names and a somber context.
Exhibition catalog lists items including oil paintings of flowers landscapes and seascapes by Mrs McPadyen and Mrs Barnett Miss Keamy Mrs Calman and others. Water colors pen and ink sketches and photographs by multiple exhibitors accompany brief attributions and counts.
Household hints discuss enamelled bathware and cleaning methods. It covers enamel stannine techniques, starch sugar mixtures, vegetable rinses, vegetable oils to deter mosquitoes, and storage tips for leather boots with Vaseline. It includes scouring with chlorine baths for sinks, linoleum care with shellac, and glue-like mixtures for pipe cleaning and gloves.
A wealthy Melbourne tradesman keeps a priceless cricket ball mounted on ebony and sealed under glass, valued at £20 though five times that would not fetch it. He brought the ball from England thirty years ago with a cricket bell from a clubmate, and vowed not to open it even in poverty, recounting his long work journey since arriving in Melbourne.
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