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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1932
Page
2
A brief note suggests slippers as reliable last minute gifts for Christmas. The piece emphasizes practical comfort and quick shopping options to ensure a thoughtful present for hard-to-buy-for recipients.
The piece describes how Christmas centers on children as adults focus on buying toys. Amid joy the season pauses big life issues to celebrate gifts and playful plenty, with a gentle, loving tone highlighting the child's happiness as primary.
A festive scene features Muriel Evans juggling gifts as MeG-M and Nanas greet her. Couples joke about catching flies, gender guesses, and a lecture on the end of the world. In a city office, a senior partner takes two weeks of holiday while the junior reports two weeks of business.
A fragmentary verse describes three gates of gold that guard speech. It advises self restraint before telling a tale, urging truthfulness and consideration of consequences. The piece pauses on the idea that only after passing these gates may one speak without fear of outcome.
Instructions for making nut rissoles with rice, almonds, filberts, milk and egg yolk, fried to pale brown, plus a home style wholemeal bread recipe using wholemeal flour lard or butter yeast salt and tepid water. The rissoles are formed, battered with egg white and breadcrumbs, then fried and drained. The bread dough is mixed, kneaded, risen, shaped in tins, and baked until hollow sounding.
A collection of practical household hints covers peeling eggs handling, cheese storage, mould prevention, protecting rusted bins, carriage of patent leather shoes, oiling furniture castors, reheating boiled meats, and varnish care. Practical steps include vinegar wraps, paraffin oil immersion, burning newspaper, ammonia wash, and leather drying methods.
A Aberdonian wrote to a London firm asking them to forward shaving paper without payment. The firm replied pointing to page 445 of their 445 page catalogue where small orders require remittance. The Aberdonian replied requesting the catalogue be sent now.
A provocative prompt questions whether women should wear shorts on golf courses and how athletic apparel, including Nike gear, would appear in public and media. The discussion centers on comfort, competitiveness, and evolving fashion norms in sport.
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