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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 17, 1904
Page
5
Ladies column describes the coming autumn styles with accordion-pleated skirts, prinsesse effects, and boned corselets. It notes the bolero coat and tailored open fronts, plus straight kilted flounces on short skirts. Patterns favor dark blue sarge fabrics, silks, and velvet accents.
The article notes the basque coat reemerging in style, suited to both stout and thin figures. It describes a black satin original with a gauged yoke, white satin fronts embroidered in black, a coffee lace scarf, and a waist-gouged deep basque creating a dignified silhouette for the wearer around fifty.
Fashion notes describe a revived pointed bodice with draped silk and taffeta, featuring gouging stitches, velvet bows, guipure lace yokes, and lace frills. A matching draped blouse for crepe de Chine or wash fabrics offers a bowed hem, lace yoke, and ribbon bands. Full sleeves end in tucked flounces with jag frills.
A fragmentary line suggests a possible affair or trimming action connected with cromway imads and an 48 skatehed context. The incomplete text leaves the exact event, parties, and location unclear, leaving readers awaiting fuller details.
Fashion notes describe round and deep yokes for blouses from early Victorian style. Methods include using lace or two deep collars to simulate sloping shoulders, with careful fitting before covering with lace and attention to shoulder seams.
A housekeeper describes methods to lift candle grease from materials. Apply a blotting paper, then use alcohol or spirits to rub the stain, turning wax to powder and lifting it without residue. A stronger approach involves drage of apis or lavender with brandy or wine spirit to dissolve and remove the mark.
The article describes clove tea as a mouth rinse for painful gums and teeth, prepared by infusing four grains of cloves in a pint of boiling water for an hour, then chilling and straining. It also mentions an horseradish infusion and a Cologne addition as alternatives, plus a cold milk infusion for tender gums.
A discussion of a softening cream for dry skin and a home made recipe. Ingredients include cocoa butter lanolin rose water alder flower water and glycerine optional. Cocoa butter and lanolin melted with gentle heat then waters added and mixture beaten until combined.
A fragmentary 19th or early 20th century musing argues that rainwater is superior for complexion and costs less than commercial products. It suggests catching rain in a tub or tin bath, warming it over a fire, and adding a few drops of ammonia to tap water to improve cleansing and elasticity.
A compact guide lists practical household tips and remedies for cleaning fabrics, removing ink stains, preserving lamp wicks, keeping steel knives bright, scalding milk, repairing towels, boiling lamps for throat relief, cleaning fur hats, treating serge and cloth, and making an eye wash with salts, opium tincture, rosewater.
A fragmentary note describes using a rag to dab at yesterday night and morning, applying water to a tamped chimney, wiping away a noisy substance with alcohol, then polishing withArnolds alia to complete the task.
A clipped article notes Miss Am Monroe promoting household recipes with practical tips for homemakers. It mentions strain on domestic chores, simple methods, and project ideas to improve kitchen efficiency.
Instructions describe methods for preparing various lamb cuts with options to bake roast or boil. Include gravy mint sauce parsley onion sauce and jelly pairings for leg shoulder loin shoulder and leg joints. The text emphasizes serving methods and flavor accompaniments from a historical kitchen guide.
A fragmentary recipe describes mint sauce with finely chopped mint, sugar, boiling water, and a gill of vinegar. The mixture is sweetened, poured over, steeped fifteen minutes, then vinegar is added and stirred.
Recipe fragment lists butter water and parsley as the main ingredients. It instructs melting butter, stirring off heat, adding water to boil and thicken, then seasoning with salt and chopped parsley.
Instructions suggest using the same ingredients to prepare onion sauce and propose substituting with nine boiled onions for the recipe variant.
A kitchen note describes a caper sauce using smangr patents as a template. It suggests substituting 1 tablespoonful of Shepwed supers for parsing steps, outlining a quirky method to adapt a patent style for culinary use.
A vintage recipe outlines custard puffs made with butter flour water and eggs. Boil sugar and water, mix in flour, cool, beat in eggs, bake slowly in greased tins for four hours, then cool and split top to fill with whipped cream or thick custard and dust with icing sugar.
A brief recipe card lists ingredients including 2 eggs, a heaped tablespoon of sugar, a pint of milk, and vanilla flavouring. Heat eggs and sugar, add milk and essence, pour into four greased dishes, bake in a water bath until set, then cool and fill puffs with a spoonful each.
The text appears to be a quotation and aphorisms rather than a news item or notice. It contains sentiments from Shakespeare and Phillips Brooks about virtue and strength, lacking identifiable people, organizations, places, events, or dates to summarize into a newspaper card.
A fragmented excerpt reflects on an unnamed guide in despair who breathes new divine hope into the heart, naming Clarke as a possible, if oblique, reference to a fellow seeker within a mournful, introspective tone.
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