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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 05, 1911
Page
3
A readable digest of domestic guidance covering women’s management, needlework, cookery, and household tips. Practical lessons include sewing button technique, preserving fabric, stain removal, bread crumbs for puddings, polishing trays, tendering old hens, mirror cleaning, stocking care, broom use, fish scaling, and restoring faded colors with simple remedies.
A concise guide explains choosing fresh fish, checking gills and eyes, and proper handling. It outlines simple cooking methods from pan searing to baking, with tips on seasoning, temperature, and serving suggestions for quick flavorful results.
A practical guide on broiling and frying various fish. It covers oily versus dry fish preparation, scaling and splitting, butter or oil coating, and heat control. It explains broiler use, oven broiling, and plank cooking, plus egg crumb coatings, batter options, and frying technique to avoid dry flesh.
A dated recipe describes sauteing fish in small fat with careful browning on both sides and warns against oily fish. It covers prep with salt and pepper, flour, and adding salt pork fat. includes garnish ideas with olives anchovies bread eggs and jelly, plus a banana dish baked with lemon juice sugar and sponge cake layers.
Dr Mercer Bishop of Tasmania spoke at Ballarat Channel House on democracy's watchwords liberty equality and fraternity. He warned of modern life complexity and the dangers of money power while praising majority rule and the need for educated public judgment and unity in diverse operation.
Readers seeking information on home management and cookery should address their questions to the editor of Por Wives and Daughters at the Colac Herald Office. The notice directs inquiries to the publication’s specific department for homemaking guidance.
W Crouch of Taba Street Tiroken Hill NEW describes severe throat and chest irritation from heat and dust. He credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with immediate relief and cure, noting other medicines failed. advertises Tilson Cole Hoylan and Woods Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds at 1/6.
A July sale notice details a wide range of discounted goods at Bilson & Co including men’s trousers and dresses, blankets, bed mattresses, fabrics, lace, globes, gloves, and skincare items. The ad highlights reduced prices on coats, hats, footwear, and domestic wares, plus free extras with certain purchases.
Constable Day reports in Rokewood that Lilian Elizabeth Mayne, 20, confessed to bearing a stillborn illegitimate infant a month earlier and hiding the body in her father's paddock. She is remanded on concealment of birth. autopsy arranged. The discovery occurred at Corindhap in the yard of Mr Mayne, with a dog-gnawed, partly eaten remains.
A broad digest reports drop in Bendigo infectious cases since May, shifts in New South Wales government support for a slim majority, and many social and economic items across Australia. It notes migrants and industry, Empire era trains, budget figures for South Australia and New South Wales, a star cargo voyage, public lighting losses, a Brisbane hospital pay rise, a Melbourne drinking fountain, and various local incidents.
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