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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 09, 1904
Page
1
Ladies column reviews tea gown and demi toilette styles in champagne voile with soft pastel colors, bouilloné trims, lace motifs, and floral embroidery. Describes Victorian inspired bodices, full skirts, and three coiffure sketches with buckles, combs, and waved hair.
The passage details simple to elaborate coiffures decorated with combs made from dark or light tortoise shell or white horn or ivory. Very common setups use two side combs, a back comb low, and a back-of-head piece, with varieties ranging from small wedding rings to tiny diamonds and stars of cut steel.
The article describes strong astringents to control moisture in hands, warns that frequent use hardens skin, and prescribes a lotion of tannin camphor and spirits for occasional use. It advises rubbing tannin powder before gloves and using lemon juice to dry and tighten the skin after washing with water.
The guide urges selecting a pig breed by highest value in ham and bacon, Berkshire for ham, Yorkshire for top cured meat, or whichever yields most money. It then outlines feeding from birth, using affordable, nutritious scraps, milk, corn, and pasture, with clean water and shelter, feeding twice daily until five months, then shifting to high quality meat feed.
A fragment discusses soil depletion from year to year and the need to return nutrients. It mentions hens failing to lay eggs unless given proper elements, notes egg production dips in winter, and suggests green foods like bouls as essential. It emphasizes bone material supplying needed nutrients to fowls.
A compilation of quotations and aphorisms from various authors including Carlyle Hughes Matthews Lowell Milward Be Miladstone Westcatt Smiles Lubbock and Wilson. The piece extols diligence energy and character while reflecting on duty patience self education and enduring achievement.
The passage argues that essential elements for egg formation are readily available in farm produce and that preparing suitable fowl feed is simple and inexpensive. It questions why poultry keepers neglect use of such feed, noting it saves time and enhances garden grazing.
A reflective excerpt argues that true relish of life comes from exertion and purposeful activity. It asserts that leisure without work breeds discontent, and that greatest creators began with discipline and steady labor. It cautions against retirement into idleness and emphasizes sustained effort for happiness.
Housekeeper reports R Monrad Kuster found snoring is a habit, worsened by back sleep, and caused by mouth potency during sleep. A jaw-supporting bandage was devised to hold the lower jaw up and prevent drooping at night, usable for children with habit of mouth breathing to reduce catarrhs and deafness risks.
The page describes borax uses for homes and health. It covers powder form, mild solutions for cuts, soothing infant baths, skin whitening, nipple care for nursing mothers, eye care, and general skin softening. It notes dosage varies by use and recommends diluted mixtures for infants and delicate eyes.
Take stock and vegetables boiled and strained then cooled skim fat. Soak two ox tails then cut into joints and simmer in fresh water with ham slices until tender. Return stock to pot add tail pieces plus port wine pepper and a pinch of four and pepper for flavor.
An old medical note describes treating ringworm by cleansing the scalp, then applying a solution of one part iodine to thirty parts flexible collodion to the scalp daily for four days. After fifteen days remove the collodion, wash, and apply a mercury bichloride solution before washing again and applying vaseline. If needed repeat the treatment.
A damaged OCR fragment shows a recipe style instruction for mixing flour with sugar and eggs. Phrases mention pudding, mixing quantities, and baking steps, but are unclear due to garbled text and missing context. The readable bits suggest a basic batter preparation with beaten eggs and sugar.
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