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Newspaper

Colac Herald

Location

Colac, Victoria, Australia

Date

May 08, 1912

Page

3

Fashion and Beauty Advice for Women of the Day

The column offers fashion notes on skirts and hats, plus grooming tips for busy women. It discusses inexpensive tailoring for garments, prefers soft pleats over wide ones, and notes white felts and beavers being in style. It also covers facial and neck care, hairdressing, and simple beauty recipes using tannin, almonds, borax, and onion juice for skin and neck whitening.

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Frugal Cookery From a Historic Menu Row

A long OCR inspired kitchen note describes tomato mushroom pies, beef roast with vegetables, cream puffs, custards, sauces, and sweets. It includes steps, ingredients, and methods for preparing savory mains, pastries, and condiments, with several recipe fragments and measurements.

Practical Beauty Tips From A Busy Working Woman

An article offers home beauty guidance for working women. It covers skin and hand care with lemon juice glycerine lotion, sugar rub for dirty hands, and nightly Vaseline and Epsom salt mix to soften nails and hands. It notes foot tiredness linked to high heels and suggests comfort-focused footwear advice.

Selby Asper Franette Spee Jin Rory Aecuse

Timepiece selection for all needs advertised

A local shop promotes clocks for dining room, bedroom, kitchen, hull, workshop, and table, with designs, sizes, and prices. It offers a wide range of watches including sporting, wrist, ladies’, in gold, silver, or gunmetal, priced from 17/ a to 10/10, and highlights Pearlson’s guaranteed gun metal watch as high value. It also advertises jewellery and electro plate, urging customers to visit Pearson First for savings.

Hull Pearson

Beech Forest Physician Bruehl Advertises Services

Dr M D Bruehl of Beech Forest a physician surgeon and ophthalmic surgeon offers daily consultations from residence near the Public Hall Beech Forest. He can be found nightly at Tinver's Hill on the Rail Ways at the Hotel Fort.

Bruehl Berlin Beech Forest Tinver’s Hill

Eeee A O S Ma Ed

A fragmentary readable slice records unclear items and names from a newspaper page. The text is garbled with missing context and lacks a coherent event or person to summarize.

Watertights Boots and winter stock show at Thomson store

A local boot maker touts own tannering and leather quality as Watertights markets unveil winter stock. The display features latest millinery furs knitted jackets golf wear long cloaks and tweed coats with a new dressmaking department under Masterson. Clothing rainproof coats oilers rugs and underwear complete the winter assortment for men women and children.

Ian Colac Evan Jaeger Dr . Jaeger

Bilson and Co Advise on Vast May Event

Fragmentary OCR hints at a business notice from Bilson and Co regarding a May event or sale. Names such as Ely and Legeent appear amid garbled text, with references to a potential partner or location. Further readable details are unavailable.

End of coal strike debated by miners and leaders

From Our Correspondent April 5 London reports a ballot among miners showing a determined stance to resist return to work. Large abstentions, leadership pressure, and calls for renewed action are noted amid poverty claims and political friction over Home Rule and labor unrest.

Aoe Emg Minera Pipers Minera Union Miners’ Federation London East End Bull Vernon Hartshorn Alriken Mc Alexander Ure K.G Scotland Asquith Merull Prince of Wales Paria England Teddy Colonial Office Old Land Creat Britain Bonar Law Belfast North of Ireland Kingsyar Wedneway Tom Mann Melom Mann Tate Passa Guy Bowmen Brothers Buck Ulster Mia Pankhurst Home Secretary SsLill Misa Christabel Pankhurst Agate

Oxford Beats Cambridge In Rough Water Boat Race

Spectators crowded the banks at Hammersmith as Oxford won the annual boat race by six lengths amid rough water and swamping of the crews. The event, part of agitation for votes, drew attention despite a lackluster viewing experience.

Hammersmith Oxford Cambridge

Woady Yallonk Stakes Won By Weering Lass In Fourteen Aged Dogs

Cressy Coursing Club held the Woady Yallonk Stakes for fourteen aged dogs with Lily Me and My Word other top entries. Weering Lass defeated Lady Argyle while Dainty Losa beat Harrigan and Lily Me. beat Molly Drum. Golden Gauntlet edged Lucky Reef and My Word defeated Athena. Dorey Boy withdrawn after undecided.

the Cressy Club Lily Me A. Nelson T.o'brien Lady Argyle Morrow Dainty Losa T. O'Brien Harrigan G. M'Murray M. L. Euward Molly Drum Neville M. L. Edward A. Lawson Ada Goldress R. Kennedy Tt. Kennedy Gy Young

Geelong Harbor Commission resumes hearings amid cross-examinations

The Geelong Harbor Commission resumed meetings on Monday with continued sessions late at night. Witnesses discussed remarks about Mr Bell and Mr Carr, premium allocations among insurance companies, and questions on depreciation funds and fuel efficiency for the Hornsby suction gas engine.

Geelong Harbor Trust Royal Commission D. MacKinnon Sally Angus Gray Wal Doyle G. EF. Holton Bell Fowler Secre W. P. Cary aMr Carr Alr Bell Carr Royal Company Hornsby Siemen Ion Nest Jas, Hall

War and Art Debate at Royal Academy Banquet

A London gathering at the Royal Academy included Sir George Mein and Sir William Hall-Jones among attendees. Winston Churchill and Asquith urged preventing war by securing victory and boosting private and state support for keeping a national collection of paintings, with Sir Edward Poynton proposing a reserve register for first refusal on works offered for sale.

London Royal Academy George Mein Australia William Hall-Jones New Zealand Winston Churchill The Admiralty

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