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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 12, 1911
Page
3
An article blends kitchen guidance with home crafts. It details a butter toast bread dish and milk sauce, then shifts to useful fancy work and curtains. It highlights skeleton stitch embroidery, curtain designs, color palettes, and practical sewing tips for travelers and households.
A long, instruction filled piece covers drying tablecloths pinning lines and starching methods. It adds steps for refreshing bread and ivory, cleaning bronze, preserving wax and moth prevention, plus recipes for cheese pastries and preserves.
The advertisement lists a wide assortment of discounted items including men's trousers and shirts, art photo frames, blankets, dresses, lace curtains, rugs, sheets, quilts, towels, gloves, shoes, and domestic wares. It promotes low prices, special lines, and a free extra pair of trousers with a purchase, highlighting quality fabrics and branded goods alongside household goods and tea. The long catalog notes wool trade commentary and a brief testimonial for Doan's Backache Kidney Pills.
An advertorial piece promotes swastika brooches earrings pendants and wedding rings at George Payne’s jeweller store in Geelong. It touts wide stock including necklaces rings and crosses with repairs gilding engraving and fast service.
A Colac advertisement invites shoppers to inspect a range of imported woollens and men’s wear accessories. The notice touts tailored fit and style by expert tailors and features machine and portable gramophones, phonographs, records, musical instruments, jewelry, and cutlery with weekly Colac visits to Oldfellows Hill.
A dated advertisement-like fragment touts an item named Cure or jmat offering rapid relief for itching. The brief text suggests a new order of day benefit and ease of use without medical detail.
An aged advertisement touts Wheeler's Cough Linctus as a remedy for coughs colds sore throat hoarseness and bronchitis promising soothing effects on tender airways and urging first use before trying alternatives.
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