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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1912
Page
3
Lingerie robes, lace blouses, and evening slippers dominate summer dress trends. The piece covers fabrics, embroidery, and trims, plus guidance on home wear and gentle critiques of girlhood behavior and courtship dynamics.
Household advice covers tea with horn scent to lengthen flowers in heat and preventing slimy sponges by borax soaking. It includes pie tips to vent steam with macaron pieces in crust and a method to cinch a waist with elastic and a hook and eye.
Take ripe tomatoes and cook gently until soft then sieve to pulp. Add minced shallots cayenne pepper bruised ginger and cloves per pint of pulp. Boil gently until reduced to one third then add vinegar before removing from heat. Pour into heated bottles cork and seal store in a cool dry place.
Recipe notes describe making a cheese paste with grated tedic ee sa flour butter and cayenne then shaping and baking. Another section covers veal patties with cold roast veal ham egg mace pepper lemon peel and puff paste, plus a marrow jelly and a digestive tabules promotion. The passage blends cooking steps with a product advertisement for Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tablets sold by Walter Stephens.
Powell and Wm Doucall announce they have acquired the carriage factory of the late James Brett in Colac District. The new firm promises the New Firm Guarantee, steady support from past customers, and high quality BUGGIES CARTS FARM WAGONS and all vehicle types crafted by export tradesmen.
The Rev G Fielding of St Matthias Church Paddington delivers a dream vision set 124 years ahead. He cites a referendum against Christianity in Sydney and across Australia, with a future governed by secular leaders amid industrial strife and looming Northern powers.
A reliable remedy for eruptions irritations of the skin and blemishes. Claims it treats bezema pimples sores chilblains chapped hands sciatica itching bleeding piles cuts burns bruises beards bad legs stings of insects and various inflammations. Sold by Walter Stephens.
An advertisement promotes Comstock's Nerve and Bone Liniment as a powerful remedy for pains through deep penetration. It claims to relieve neuralgia lumbago rheumatic aches and supports swelling burns and bruises. Available from The W H Comstock Co Sydney sent by mail at set prices.
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