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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 03, 1912
Page
3
The article offers historical guidance on table manners and personal care, detailing proper fork and knife use, napkin handling, soup etiquette, and seating decorum. It also covers toilet notes and morning face care with step by step instructions and cautions against awkward habits.
A Victorian style guide urges women to reduce housework by routing daily tasks. It links blackheads to poor circulation and advises tonics and Turkish baths. It demonstrates efficient laundry flow, recommends straight-line layouts, and suggests using trays to cut trips between rooms.
A detailed home canning method for tomato and apple preserves lists ingredients such as large onions apples pepper allspice ginger and vinegar. It describes boiling mashing straining through a colander and reboiling with sugar treacle and spices before bottling and sealing.
The article warns that kidney problems cannot be ignored as waste builds in the blood and may lead to chronic illness such as Bright's disease. It promotes a kidney medicine that strengthens kidney function, cleanses blood, improves circulation, and provides relief.
Fragments describe a rich chocolate pudding using bread crumbs eggs and milk. It mentions boiling milk mixing sugar and chocolate, pouring over bread, beating eggs, buttered moulding, baking or steaming, and thickening with flour then returning to a hot pan to finish.
The Terra Nova with Captain R F Scott's British Antarctic Expedition arrived at Akaron this morning reporting all well. One party remains in the Antarctic. The Terra Nova is expected to reach Lyttelton on Wednesday. The outcome of the dash for the South Pole is not yet known.
Akaroa reports Captain Beatty and Lt Pennell leading the Tetra Nova and Terr Nova in Antarctic waters. The parties map the west coast, uncover coal fossils, and report excellent health aside from Lt Evans who recovered from scurvy. The crews prepare for a November return south.
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