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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
3
Bargain basement style ad offers costumes voiles lace collars gloves and blouses at special Xmas prices. Claims latest fashions direct from manufacturers with heavy discounts and urged orders for timely delivery. Highlights include velvet frames purses passhags and a range of white muslin blouses and dresses.
A detailed guide to vintage hair styles and matching accessories for women. It covers coiffure trends from earlier days, fringe and chignon shapes, and how to wear fillets and velvet bands. Instructions include making opera-glass cases with embroidered brocade, buckram, and satin, plus creating satin flower decorations and ribbon roses for headpieces.
Damaged OCR text shows a collection of old fashioned baking and roasting directions. It mentions making a spiced fruit loaf with suet currants and brandy, roasting a turkey with veal stuffing and sausage, and a third cake recipe with eggs flour and fruit. It reads like a century old domestic cookbook fragment.
A garbled list of preserved fruits and fillings with instructions for jam and candied peels. Mentions beef suet, apples, currants, lemon and orange peels, wine and brandy, and spices. Describes preparing jars, cooking fruit juices, and forming pastry coverings for later use.
A fragmentary classified-style listing shows items such as Vollar Boxes and 2 11 Trinket Boxes, 14 and bk 2b Ti Frnes, Metal Rose Bowls, 1 viette Rings, Photo Frames with numbers like 23, 2/11, 21 and 41h. It reads as an assortment of small decorative items and prices or codes.
Bilson's displays Xmas toys and dolls, bicycles, perambulators in the furniture department alongside new beds, bedding, suites, tables, and linoleum. Alfred Heap's groceries run at Polwarth Stores until December 31, with Alfred Heap's Drapery at Bilson's featuring Miss Field and staff.
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