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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1915
Page
5
The article details sewing materials and garments for women and homes. It covers washable fabrics, accessories, summer frocks, skirt designs, pockets, trims, and decorative touches. It also includes care tips for fabrics, shoe styles, and simple home decorating and wallpapering instructions.
This fragment outlines several apple dishes including sliced apple in sugar syrup served with cream, stewed apples with lemon jelly and milk bread pudding, custard poured over sponge cakes, and an almond studded roll baked with apples. It repeats steps for preparing apples, dough, and baking, with notes on whipping eggs and folding sugar.
A Thompson and accompanying party on Murray Street notifies the public that due to a general rise in material costs he has been compelled to raise charges for goods and articles manufactured and used in the trade.
Mr Clifford from Natura Health Co Melbourne will visit Colac at the Victoria Hotel from Thursday to Friday offering free consultations on home treatment for health issues. The notice invites men and women to consult for potential relief and promising benefits, with a free health booklet available by mail.
Fragmentary text references a late night event from 11 pm to 1 pm in Melhoursa with mentions of drone making and fateeres. Details and proper names are unclear, producing an uncertain item.
A new General Butchers shop opens in Mannere Bullen Street offering beef mutton pork bacon and small goods. The owners promise cash purchases and lowest prices to customers and invite a fair trial with careful attentive service.
Winchelsea branch of the ANA held a fortnightly meeting with a 100.01 Wan card game challenge accepted. A meeting will be held at Shire Hall on Saturday evening the 28th for a forming branch purchase action at M'kiwitt's Auction Mart. Recruits listed include Levlie Richmend Tupert Richmond Charlie Richmond Antony McCallam Terry Salih and George McAnuchy.
Parents praise Hean's Essence as a soothing remedy for sore throats coughs and colds in children. The home preparation method uses a bottle of Hean's Essence water and sweetening to yield eighteen penny bottles, with dosing guidance and cautions about substitutes.
The Kit Club meeting on Saturday ended with a balance of over £6 and 10 members present. Ninety Town contributed musketry and two members volunteered for active service, both accepted. Retiring officers were re-elected with Captain J Hennessy as captain, S Morris as secretary, and M Kean as treasurer. A brush kangaroo shoot funded the Australian Wounded Soldiers Fund yielded 26 brush and one fox from 13 shooters, with about 70 skins to dispose of. Contact J Hennessy for skin prices. Constable Falor takes a two week holiday. Constable Considine to relieve.
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