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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1904
Page
5
Noted fashion column outlines skirt and collar styles, including kilts, pleats, tapes, and laces. It describes tourist friendly skirts, home made trims, pelarines, and numerous collars and waist pieces with references to fabrics such as satin and taffeta.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a wardrobe feature list focusing on waists and neckwear. The text references garb accessories and a display or section title, with incomplete lines indicating a broader fashion feature.
A housekeeper recounts an onion based treatment that cured an elderly woman with bronchitis after doctors gave up. A large raw onion sewn in a cloth bag was pounded, applied to the chest with a flannel wrap, then a poultice left for four hours. A second poultice and wash followed, and the patient quickly recovered becoming active again. The woman says she has methods to help others with the same remedy.
An old time health note extols sun exposure as a restorative for thinning hair. It claims sunlight improves color and hair growth, advises letting hair hang to air out, and suggests summer resort retreats for women to benefit from sunshine.
Fragmentary text describes turning old garments into new for boys. It mentions a pattern and guidance for learning the craft, stressing gradual skill building and steady practice. The readable portion lacks complete instructions or specific steps.
Practical home washing tips for linen and blankets from summer care to stubborn stain removal. Advice includes boiling water handling, sun drying, watering with a rose-hooded can, cold water immersion, rinsing until smuts vanish, and air drying to keep whiteness without blueing.
A recipe from Warrimney lists ingredients for Fairy Cakes including butter, sugar, baking powder, flour, cornflour, eggs, milk, lemon peel and essence. Instructions beat butter and sugar to cream, add eggs, milk, then flour and powder, fill patty tins, top with lemon peel and bake moderate oven a quarter hour.
A recipe lists ingredients such as butter sugar and flour for a seed cake. Instructions describe creaming butter and sugar then adding eggs milk and dry ingredients before baking in a greased paper lined tin at gradually decreasing heat for an extended period.
A historical recipe describes making almond biscuits with sugar, egg, almonds, flour, and baking powder. Boil water, butter and sugar creamed, then mix with flour and powder. Roll lightly, stamp rounds, brush with egg, place almond pieces, and bake in a moderate oven until pale brown about sixteen minutes.
A listed recipe outlines ingredients for lemon buns including one and one half cups flour eight ounces sugar six ounces butter three eggs four gills milk lemon rind four teaspoonfuls lemon zest and a piece of candied peel. The method begins with Mourad baking.
Incoherent OCR shows steps to combine sugar rind and batter, shape into rounds, glaze and bake briefly. Reads like a rough kitchen note with many garbled words and unclear ingredients.
A recipe describes making a coffee cake by creaming butter with sugar then beating in eggs, sour cream, and leavening. It instructs sifting cream of tartar and carbonate of soda, mixing until smooth, baking in a greased dish 40 to 45 minutes, then brushing with butter and cinnamon sugar before cutting into squares. It mentions serving pieces in diamond shapes once cooled.
The passage quotes multiple authors on knowledge progress and faith. It frames progress as essential to humanity and religion, arguing growth in understanding and practice sustains both individual and church vitality. It contrasts progress with conservatism and urges continual improvement guided by divine truth.
A riddle style note ponders danger of a clock on stairs as it runs down and strikes one. The piece references whirling winds of Arabia that excavate sand pits to about 2001 depth with pits potentially obliterated in hours.
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