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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 05, 1929
Page
12
The article discusses how meal service timing affects harmony in a home. It stresses rapid transfer from kitchen to dining room, warns of cold, soggy dishes and lost flavor, and suggests a kitchen dining service hatch as the simplest fix. It notes clubs or hotels as substitutes during servant shortages.
Many underestimate curtain needs for privacy and charm. Simple, attractive curtains can be fashioned at home from leftover fabric. An ecru pair with a taffeta border in room colors completes the look.
A dressy style called Fuiry mode dominates winter fashion with heavier materials. The illustration blends serviceability and current style, featuring a closely fitted body and sleeves, yoke over the right hip, and frill detailing. Neckline shows a prominent V line, two tone contrast urged with brown and beige, and a shoulder puff adds brightness.
A Victorian style guide details curtain designs with double border widths, ruched tops, and embroidered flower pot motifs in colored silks. It recommends finaly pleated dark material for ground-floor windows, fringe bottoms for a modern look, and buttercup yellow linen with white embroidery for living spaces.
Rainfall in June and the first half of the year runs well below normal. The Young district reports 130 points in the past month against 201 average, six months total 618 versus 1231. Farmers have endured the dry spell so far, but relief hinges on regular, ample rains.
An article advises thin people to eat fattening foods yet stay thin due to poor assimilation. It recommends Sargol tablets with every meal to improve blood nutrition and boost red blood cells, claiming weight increases of three to five pounds weekly with no known harm.
At Forbes Football Club a Tuesday meeting urged stricter discipline after players clashed over defrances and playing for outside teams. A judiciary committee was formed to judge Buckman and Le Brocque for clearances, with Messrs Ryan Kelly Mandell Fell and Johnson named.
Forbes trustees dispute Chamber of Commerce report on the Methodist School Hall. They explain the Education Department rents two rooms since 1921 and 1922, deny excessive use or repairs and note plans to demolish the hall when no longer needed. Trustees blame delayed action but urge state education funding for new accommodation.
The wool market shows foundations for firmer prices as demand improves but warns against rushing to optimism. Crossbred tops fall 1d to 468d, merino tops down at 38d, while Bradford and Yorkshire trends reflect late-season buying. Industry hopes a sustained revival will bring stability and confidence for manufacturers and growers alike.
Bedgerabong locals celebrate a 15 sets to 11 win as Derriwong and SUmbridge clash in regional tennis. Wongaroung ladies host, with spectators enjoying a bright Saturday of matches and a future Tit final anticipated.
A district wedding was celebrated on Saturday for Miss Ade laide Hodges and Mr. Vivian Coombs. Both families live near Bogas Gate and are well known locally.
A reader urges Forbes council to reestablish a Town Band on a round footing and suggests hiring J. Turner as both caretaker of the Town Hall and bandmaster. The writer notes Turner’s prior service as bandmaster before the war and argues this joint appointment could organize the band for summer readiness.
A longtime NSW Victoria musician urges Forbes to form a town band. He recalls Ballarat contests and laments Forbes lacking a band, urging the council and older bandsmen to take action before Forbes becomes too sleepy to rise to the occasion.
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