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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 17, 1912
Page
3
A fashion notice urges careful use of last season’s outfits, promoting rational silhouettes, lower waists, and adaptable skirts. It details tunics, overskirts, and sleeves, plus coat styles and new collars for updating wardrobes while emphasizing practicality and modesty.
The article discusses the master’s role in evaluating children, noting advantages over parents in forming impartial judgments. It stresses the need for sympathy patience and memory of one’s own childhood, and highlights children as shy yet natural actors with minds often unfamiliar to parents.
Drain salmon and skin. Mash fish then mix with melted butter. Beat eggs and fold in stale breadcrumbs, pepper, salt, parsley and suet. Combine with salmon paste, pour into a buttered mould and steam for one hour.
Step by step fish pudding with mashed potatoes and egg garnish. Mix white fish with breadcrumbs milk cream and beaten egg whites, bake in a water bath until puffed, then surround with hot mashed potatoes and a flower garnish. Also prepare sardines on toast with tomato sauce and horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, served hot.
A Geelong reader profile touts Doan's Ointment as a cure for eczema piles and skin troubles. The testimonial claims dramatic relief from severe skin irritation and urges others to use the product, noting price and availability through Foster M’Clellan Co. at 76 Pitt Street.
An article extols bowel regularity as essential to health noting waste buildup can cause headaches sleeplessness and digestive issues. It cites a testimonial from John Enehres of Dundaberg who says Dr Morse’s Indian Root Pills cured his rheumatism and constipation and that his family uses them for relief and the wife for life transitions.
The veteran European musician Wilhelm Kube, famed as a pianist, composer, conductor, and impresario, was recently honored on his eighty fifth birthday. Despite blindness he continues daily piano practice, recalling stories of Paganini, Jenny Lind, and earlier years in England and Germany.
A steel rope narrates its journey from molten ingot to ingot forming, hammering, and rolling through massive furnaces and a 1,200 horsepower mangle. The tale follows transformation into eight pillets and the brutal shaping that gives the metal its strength.
A first person narrator describes passing through rollers and drawing through draw plates to create a long thin rod, then a polished wire coil, then being twisted into a strand and finally a massive cable. The process emphasizes repeated shaping, cleaning, annealing, and tempering, culminating in a 200 ton mass producing a rope of exceptional strength.
In a humorous exchange, Seaman Jones requests extended leave to handle a family matter. The commander probes the need as Jones fumbles through a convoluted explanation about guardianship roles. The captain relents, moved by Jones's sympathetic O. O. and grants the time off.
In a Michigan University lab an experimental setup used an induction coil and Crookes tube to project X rays. A black pasteboard revealed internal bones as green phosphorescence showed each bone and even the beard of a boy, with his body clearly visible through translucent clothing.
A fragment recalls a quarrel over which is the oldest trade, with a blacksmith and a gardener arguing. The gardener cites Genesis about Adam in Eden, while the smith counters with a pun on tools and fire, though the text is badly garbled.
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