08 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1903
Page
1
The article describes chiffon and movaseline dresses with white or cream chiffon detailing, rose petals, and console pleated elements. It notes mounting on silk, delicate white or cream palettes, and the evolving style of collars sleeves and flounces. It highlights hats with pale pink or magenta tones and wire features for brunettes.
The text describes glove perfumes using ambergris, orange flower, rose essence, cloves and mace oil. It details rubbing ingredients into gloves with cotton wool and letting scents set in twenty four hours. It also notes scented threads stitched into frocks as a fashionable detail.
Fragmentary description of a coat with a strapped collar, velvet or white Ottoman silk mounting, fringe, and matching color. Mentions fringe, stitched cut, bottom trim, and pleats, with references to black and two colored cloth, ribbon velvet, and brown muslin used in millinery.
A vintage text describes a hair lotion using bicarbonate and powdered borax with a note to apply brushing in generous amounts. The exact ingredients and preparation steps are presented in fragmentary form within the bottle label.
A historical notice records nine pullets and one cock of Partridge Cochin stock. They hatched in spring and laid 436 eggs in the three warmer months with detailed feeding and care described. The report mentions Buff Plymouths Houdans Java and Barred Plymouth Rocks as other varieties and notes their egg production and characteristics.
The article critiques breeding trends for too little bone and notes risks from poor bone structure. It argues for a balanced approach, favoring animals with sturdier bone to prevent accidents and improve profitability, warning against extremes in either direction.
The article discusses hog breeding with emphasis on bone strength and market quality. It notes Cheater White Boar as a refined, vigorous feeder producing good market types and advises seed selection to balance bone fineness. It mentions wood ashes and potash raising bone. gains of nine to sixteen pounds per bushel of grain. It also includes a personal note about a royal thanksgiving and unrelated Russian royal details.
A housekeeper describes cutting apples into round pieces and wrapping each with minced can peel and a light suet paste. The bundles are tied in cloths wrung in cold water, boiled for forty minutes, then served with sweet sauce.
The recipe instructs slicing a penny roll, buttering, layering with currants and candied peel, repeating until full, then making custard from three eggs and sugar. Pour thin over the bread, bake in a moderate oven, beat egg whites to form hillocks on top, dust with sugar, and return to color the whites.
Instructions describe mixing ground almonds with sugar and water, adding stiffly beaten egg whites, shaping onto parchment, dusting with castor sugar, topping with almond slivers, and baking in a moderate oven to finish.
Boil vermicelli with milk and cinnamon, bake in a buttered dish, then pour cooled custard over. Do not boil the custard to avoid wateriness. Sugar tops before serving and use pie crust on the sides only. Also notes on bedroom placement and drying conditions.
The scene shows Queen Margherita conversing with a Roman girl and a child in distress. The queen orders a stock of stockings sent to the child, noting a pair of rose stockings with one filled with sweets and the other with money.
In a Plymouth tale Lord Charles Beresford shows his blunt seafaring humor after spilling coffee on a hotel tablecloth. A housekeeper scolds his tact, and he quips that stronger coffee would stain the linen, urging more beans to stain the cloth.
President Roosevelt tours the West and shakes hands with about twenty thousand people. In a small town Bill Graham, sipping wine with friends, finds himself unexpectedly grabbed by the hand and greeted warmly by the energetic leader who jokes about having the advantage.
The pianist Paderewski shares a self deprecating London episode. A street game persists as a boy whistled the familiar tune of his composition, and when asked for the song’s name the lad replied with a blunt retort, hinting at the musician’s celebrity plight.
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