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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 23, 1915
Page
2
A wartime poem titled A Soldier's Hymn pleads for mercy from God before battle. It invokes Britannia and Erin and calls for Britain Scotland and Helpless lands to be defended. The verse salutes soldiers, mothers, and fathers, and asks for victory while praising courage and unselfish duty.
In a tense exchange Lilian and Di confront feelings and rumors about Richard Durham. Lilian admits doubt yet clings to truth, while Di presses for a decisive choice affecting marriage, loyalty, and the futures of Tom and Durham in a storm of passion and fear.
Diana, famed for her radiance at Idylburns Hall, guides a canoe race as Durham eyes her with guarded longing. After a near win by Norman, Diana consoles the victor and retreats into a secluded arbour where Durham confronts her with a cooled, poised request for congratulations.
In a tense exchange, Durham presses Diana on his claim of love and her past, but she asserts boundaries. She declines romance, offering friendship instead, as both weigh trust and duty. The scene ends with a calm, mutual gesture and Durham accepting the new footing.
Fashion column discusses economical dress, double and three-tier skirts, and a Magyar influenced bodice. It highlights whipcord fabrics, Russian blouse sleeves, and dressing-gown details, urging practical home sewing and occasional modern accents.
To obtain patterns for coats shirts blouses and more send postal note with 1/6 airmail? or stage IDs. Patterns are issued weekly from Sydney NB and marked by lumber for each design.
A garbled instruction fragment advises on food handling and kitchen tasks. It mentions onions or vegetables, adding alcohol to water, and using oil to seal holes with powdered resin. A warning about floor coatings and lifting a carriage over rough places is included, and a remark about potential spine or brain issues if precautions aren’t followed.
This OCR text mixes care tips for bamboo furniture with a tomato and onion salad recipe. It mentions cleaning bamboo with warm water and salt, drying with a soft cloth, and notes yellowing when treated. The salad portion details layering tomatoes onions parsley and a dressing of oil and vinegar with hard boiled egg garnish.
A fragmentary guide describes sewing a dressing gown from four yards of fabric using a patten with six pieces. It outlines materials such as tulle and silk, methods to cut edges, join seams, and assemble a two-part bishop sleeve and other components. The piece reflects home sewing advice during wartime.
A private family faces a harsh meal planning burden with twenty one meals daily and one hundred forty seven meals weekly. The house-mistress struggles to maintain variety, fearing fatigue and physical labor amid growing duties and growing household size.
A historical tutorial describes nail and cuticle care focusing on shaping the wade and keeping tools back. It emphasizes moderation in polish, patient care, and gentle cuticle pushing after warm water soaking to soften skin before filing.
A fragmented, recipe heavy text describes assembling ingredients and methods for layered snacks and desserts. It mentions cut halves, buttered tins, bread rounds, chopped hats and red pepper, peach pouches, whipped cream, almonds, onions, mince, and a ginger apple syrup method with sugar and water.
The text describes a small amount of fish germination used in cooking a white cake and puddings. It mentions possibly adding yolk, using a cover with cold water, and advises not to break the sole. The fragment is garbled and difficult to interpret fully.
A recipe for macaroon pudding described as delicate and affordable. Boil milk or meat milk blend then pour over chopped macarons, cover till warm. Beat egg yolks with almond extract, fold whites stiffly and mix into the custard. Bake into a large pudding or several small ones and serve with sweet sauce.
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