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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 04, 1904
Page
5
A survey of summer fashions notes elastic styles and diverse coats from basque to Eton sacques with varied skirts. Cape revivals influence wraps with new sleeve treatment and decorative under-sleeves. Embroidered cloth dresses offer affordable elegance, while cloth bodices feature stoles and draped fronts for travel and everyday wear.
A fashion note highlights spotted muslin as charming and dainty. It praises black spotted muslin with a cream lace collar and frilled hemlines, praises plain black muslin blouses, and notes pale blue and cerise muslins as popular summer shades with decorative folds and skirts.
An article describes a smart tailor made costume for girls with a box stitched skirt strapped to a loose Eton coat. The design features a wide neck collar, white or blue facings, a neck scarf threaded through tabs, bell sleeves, and a wide waist belt. Suitable for seaside holidays in summer.
The piece contrasts French and English toilet habits, noting the importance of the dressing table in aristocratic circles. It cites Josephine as an exemplar and describes a Duchess’s lavish setup with demijour, lace curtains, and a single grand apparatus housing nacre, buhl, ivory, and sandalwood.
The article notes falling hair as a common worry for women in spring, often tied to general health. It suggests a local treatment of brushing the scalp to induce redness and glow, followed by rubbing with an Auria wash made of three ingredients.
A historical remedy describes applying a mixture of equal parts drachms of pure glycerine and four ounces of limewater, followed after two to three weeks by half an ounce of tincture of cantharides. Apply morning or evening, adjusting to scalp sensitivity. A jaborandi containing tonic is also advised to strengthen weakened hair.
A special writing by Miss Amy Monro, principal of the Cooking School, Teershan County, outlines refined puddings suitable for domestic use. The piece highlights simple methods, accessible ingredients, and step by step guidance for home cooks.
Instructions describe slicing four bananas arrange on jam add lemon juice and icing sugar make a boiled custard from milk eggs and sugar cool and pour over fruit then top with stiffly beaten egg whites and pink sugarлады
A vintage recipe detailing pastry and lemon cream components. The pastry uses flour sugar baking powder fat and water, rolled and fitted to a dish with decorative edges and a toast to prevent rising. The lemon cream blends arrowroot sugar butter lemon zest juice and egg yolks boiled briefly, then set in the baked crust and finished with egg white icing.
A simple custard method uses four eggs milk sugar and flavoring. Separate yolks beat with sugar and flavoring bake in a dish set in warm water and finish with meringue topping lightly browned.
A vintage dessert method mixing apples and rice. Peel and boil apples with sugar, simmer till soft, mash into a base. Cook rice in water then milk with sugar and salt until absorbed. Top apples with fluffy meringue, pink sugar, brown briefly.
A historical recipe for Urney pudding with jam sauce outlines ingredients including flour, soda or baking powder, sugar, butter, eggs, and jam. The method describes buttering a pudding mould, lining with paper, steaming the batter for 14 hours, and serving with pink or jam sauce.
A historical kitchen fragment lists jam, vanilla, arrow root, water, carmine, and sugar with a brief method to combine water and jam. The text ends mid process, lacking complete steps or measurements for final preparation.
Sugar is placed in a saucepan and brought to the boil. It is thickened with arrowroot that has been moistened with cold water and strained before use.
A vintage recipe for Sultana Pudding without eggs. It lists ingredients including flour, soda, butter, brown sugar, mixed spice, milk, sultanas, and candied peel. Method involves rubbing in fat, mixing with sugar and spice, dissolving soda in milk, and steaming in a floured cloth for 24 hours. Serve with sweet sauce.
In the Caspian Mangishlak Peninsula five small lakes exist. One bears salt crystals thick enough for a man and horse to cross. Another lake is perfectly round and rose colored. Salt crystal banks frame the water like snow while the water shows violet to rosy red hues and releases a violet-scented perfume from seaweeds.
The Fairfax exhaust box is promoted for motorcycles offering extreme silence, unrestricted exhaust, and increased power. Made of aluminum, it reduces back pressure and uses a lever from the saddle to unleash full engine horsepower on hills. Available in several standard sizes.
Mme Curie reports three strongly radio active substances found in pitchblende. Polonium is allied to bismuth and separated by sulphide precipitation, sulphide sublimation, and basic nitrate precipitation. Radium, allied to thorium, is obtained by crystallisation of chlorides. Actinium, allied to thorium, remains inseparable. Radium is the only one isolated as a pure salt.
A French market tyre claims automatic puncture repair and no valve. It uses a thick fabric and rubber wall with an adhesive inner layer to seal punctures instantly. To inflate, a special needle creates a temporary hole, then pressure is maintained as the hole closes itself. The 30 inch tyre weighs about two pounds more than standard pneumatic tires.
Dr W D Morton of New York says he has achieved cancer cures using radium. He treated three proven cases with an internal quinine sulfate solution followed by near body exposure to radium. He notes not all cases will respond and invites other physicians to test the approach.
The text claims a whale jawbone reaches 26 feet and its tongue could yield a ton of oil. It also notes Chicago law requiring bread to bear weight and purchaser’s name stamps.
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