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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 16, 1914
Page
3
Instructional text describes fashionable daytime blouses and skirts with matching outfits, voiles, embroidery, and lace trims. It notes washability, high backs, and open necks, plus adornments like feathers and flowers. Also offers sewing techniques for edgings and picot work and tips on flower preservation and care.
Practical tips mix domestic chores and small repairs including sewing loose buttons on jerseys, mending fabrics, caring for toothbrushes, storing silver properly, and preparing leather care with soda and soap. The piece offers miscellaneous household steps with dated language and instruction.
Fragmented OCR recipe fragment lists steps for a cheese dressing and pastry mix. Mentions flour pepper salt butter cheese yolk and grated cheese with vague quantities and preparation actions. The passage is garbled and includes stray words and illegible phrases from a historical source.
An old advertisement claims Dunn’s Hackardare Pill and Dean’s Kidney Pills ease backache and kidney trouble for men and women. The copy urges readers to buy from Foster McClellan Co in Sydney with bottles priced at 28 shillings or six bottles posted on receipt of payment.
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