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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 09, 1913
Page
3
Fashion notes praise extravagant furs at Sydney races and discuss veils and hats. The column shifts to kitchen tips with recipes for Lamingtons cakes puddings and dessert sauces, plus stove and teapot cleaning advice and a dental ad.
The text recounts an Eskimo village tale of a tailor and a beauty, including social slyness and the community abstaining from drink to restore order. It notes criminal justice differences, the high value placed on self control, and a memory capable people, with remarks on education and English influence.
Advertisement from Colac Herald listing wide range of discounted housewares. Tables show dinner plates, teapots, cups, saucers, glassware, silver items, brushes, lamps, baskets, clocks, and more with sale prices. Promises large stock and a cash purchase emphasis. Address given for the sale.
A. H. Searle builder and contractor announces acquisition of the Education Department premises on High Street Colac district. He will operate a Timber Yard Hardware Lime and Cement store and aims to supply building materials in large quantities to customers and local merchants for past work and future projects.
An OCR fragment advertises J G Johnstone Co private base rooms and roomed cottages. It mentions Moore Street and Moors Street locations with weekly payments and deposits, though many words are garbled.
Applications received for a Colac music faculty listing instructors in pianoforte organ theory harmony counterpoint composition and related vocal and organ duties. Names include F. L. Lampeon dramatic tenor and organist at St Pauls with a focus on voice production and piano orientation.
A fragment tells of a young captain of the Waggleton Wyniterers Football Club and his sister discovering him studying his looks. He reveals the club will honor him with a present that night as a joke and curiosity.
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