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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 16, 1904
Page
4
The article advises careful, considerate visits to patients. It emphasizes cheerful words, small tokens like a delicacy and note, and avoiding anxiety in the sickroom. Sit near the bed without touching it, listen attentively, share gentle stories briefly, and depart with a kind goodbye to encourage future visits.
Ammonia mixed with tepid water softens skin and cleans. Inhaling spirits of ammonia relieves headaches. Clean doorplates with ammonia diluted in water. Add ammonia to a pail of water to wash windows. A few drops in warm water removes painting spots. Ammonia on clothing neutralizes acid stains. apply chloroform to restore color. Shine nickel silver by rubbing with cloth damp in ammonia. Weak ammonia cleans grease spots and irons with hot iron over white paper. Ammonia applied to fresh cold sores may kill them if used early. Strong ammonia cleans brass. dilute to restore carpet colors and remove white. Ammonia in water can remove machine oil stains and restore fabric colors. Ammonia turpentine mix removes paint from clothing. saturate and wash. Wash brushes and combs in ammonia solution. Soak flannel and blankets in water with ammonia for whitening. avoid shrinking. If fruit stains remove color, ammonia usually restores it. Brighten carpets with warm water and ammonia. Regular baths with ammonia may reduce body odor. A teaspoon of ammonia in a quart of water keeps jewelry bright. rinse after cleaning.
A chemical compound called menis is described as poured on the underside of diamonds to clean them immediately, enhancing brilliance and clarity. The report emphasizes rapid polishing results and the eye catching sparkle achieved.
Take a knuckle of veal and simmer in four quarts of water for one hour. Add sliced turnips carrots a bunch of sweet herbs and celery then boil two hours. Thicken with flour, season to taste, and make dumplings from butter milk and flour drop them in and boil twenty minutes.
Readable fragments describe preparing herrings rolled with roe, baking in a buttered dish, then serving cold with beetroot salad. A second note outlines a brown jar meat dish with stock onions mace pepper salt flour sugar ketchup walnuts and vinegar baked slowly, served from the jar.
Boil a pint of fresh milk and dissolve three ounces of semolina. When thickened stir in two ounces of butter, cool slightly, beat in three egg yolks with sugar and flavoring. Fold in the whites beaten to froth and bake in a pie dish.
A recipe uses EBONY and CREAM to make a prune dessert. Prunes are softened with lemon, sieved, then mixed with gelatine and sugar, boiled, poured into moulds and turned out when cold, served with whipped cream.
An experimental bulletin explains temperature greatly affects milk keeping quality. Milk at fifty degrees shows fivefold bacterial growth while seventy degrees yields about a 150 fold rise. Milk at ninety degrees spoils quickly, whereas cooler storage can extend freshness to weeks, guiding dairymen to control temperature to preserve milk.
The text explains how milk kept at 70 degrees Fahrenheit allows rapid bacterial growth, souring and curdling within 36 hours, while cooling to 50 degrees prolongs the safe period. It emphasizes that temperature control is more crucial than initial cleanliness for keeping milk fresh, though cleanliness remains important to prevent contamination.
Ada Meller presents a Ladies' Column on current styles from London and Paris. Insights cover silhouettes, fabrics, and accessories shaping season trends with practical tips for readers.
A tailor made costume sitshed to a survicoably style for immediate wear shows the new Eton coat. Kensould make up well in any cloth or forge material. The description focuses on the figure at the back and waist and the brim.
The text details military silk braid waistcoats, white ploth, and wide turned beak cuffs with pleated batista frills. It describes a parrow of Bounces bordered with military braid, elbow frills, and natural frills over the lower arm. No. 8 shows a graceful sleeve with long close fitting lace and outer silk drapery. Nos. 9 10 11 illustrate bell cuffs wrist bands and tight sleeves with cuffs and decorative inlays.
The article details many sleeve designs including deep ravilier cuffs lace of muslin ruffles and thin sleeves on coats and demi-toiletten. It notes ball sleeves with turned back velvet faced cuffs and smoothed folds, plus plait coat sleeves with lace rabia and elbow sleeves finished with turned back cuffs and lace.
Soften silk with warm water containing a small amount of ammonia. Rub the fabric on the right side to refresh and use a moderately hot iron on the wrong side. Always rub and iron from selvage to selvage for best results.
A recipe fragment describes frying onion in butter, adding curry powder and broth, simmering until tender, then stirring in cream thickened with arrowroot or rice flour. The method calls for eight to ten hard boiled eggs cut in pieces and briefly simmered, though some words are unclear and the text seems damaged.
Fragmentary recipe notes describe cooking oysters in a pan with cream and pepper. Directions mention frying until brown and serving with a balance of ingredients, though several words are garbled and unclear.
A compact recipe item describes layering cooked macaroni with a rum flavored sauce and salvage bits, top with pastry or potato crust, and bake for about a quarter hour. It reads as a kitchen note from a historic column with improvised ingredients.
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