Household Hints for Cleaning Cooking and Care
A collection of practical household tips on cleaning cookware and fabrics. Instructions cover eggshell polish for bottles, leather rubbing with chamois, starching linen with glycerine, preserving fabric with velvet brush polish, refreshing old newspaper as carpet help, moth control using sugar and water, reviving wilted flowers with camphor, cleaning with ammonia and soap, making raisin pudding with carrot, removing stains from crockery, fish pan cleaning, moth detection with candle in water, washing cats? and glass polishing, as well as improving gravy with salt and flour and keeping whites from turning blue with soda.
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Fiahy
Record of a cow milk production set at Bundanoon
The Sydney correspondent of the Kalgoorlie Miner reports a Freisian cow named Woodcrest Johanna Tehee, owned by E Loyd Jones of Lynfolme Bundanoon, calved May 7 last year. In 273 days her milk yield reached 20.60 lb with 33 butter fat, totaling 699.379 lb of butter fat equal to 830 lb of commercial butter.
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Sydney
Kalgoorlie
Agricultural Department
Woodcrest Johanna
Paper consumption and forest policy in Canada
A historical note on global paper use from Great Britain to the United States, stressing high demand and forest depletion. It highlights Canada and Newfoundland as timber sources and quotes a policy shift requiring reforestation, with the saying Once a spruce forest, always a spruce forest guiding the aim to plant trees as they are cut.
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Timne of & Tie
Great Britain
United States of America
Newfoundland
Are Lighthouses Doomed By Wireless Beacons Idea
A Daily News report suggests wireless beacons near Lizard Cornwall could replace lighthouses. If accepted by Trinity House, ships with wireless would locate themselves by beacon beams from a single mast, increasing safety in all weather while ending the lighthouse romance and keeping old navigational aids as day marks.
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Daily News
Lizard
Cornwall
Trinity House
The Long Arm
A noted coincidence recounts three shipwrecks on December 5 at the Menai Straits. In 1664 a boat with eighty one passengers foundered, only Hugh Williams survived. A century later 1705 and in 1820 another boat with many passengers sank at the same spot, with the sole survivor again named Hugh Williams.
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Menai Straits
Hugh Williams
Interesting items from a distant era of curious facts
A collection of oddstatements and observations spans topics from nutrition and water purity to demographics and fashion. It notes Britons’ annual food spend, U S postal trivia, Norways population, and sea depths near New Zealand, along with quirks about cats and opals and a motor ambulance on a sheep ranch.
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United States
Norway
Ona Apot
New Zealand
Alberts
Lantaenwan
Fragmentary OCR stock market dialogue leads to puzzled exchange
An indistinct quarrel over market events and a jury scene appears in a fragmentary OCR passage. The characters discuss the stock market and a hard time, with casual, weary dialogue hinting at tension and confusion.
CUPS AND SAUCERS
The article explains earthenware and fine chinaware production using Cornish china clay and other materials from Devon Dorset and Dieppe. It covers slip preparation, moulding with plaster of Paris, drying, assembling handles, firing in a large oven with saggers, cooling, glazing by dipping, and potential multiple firings for decorated pieces.
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London Daily Mail
Devon
Dorset
Dieppe
France
South America
Paris
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills Advertised by Mrs White
A York reader touts Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as curing backache and preventing kidney trouble. She recalls severe pain, doctor’s liniment failed, then relief from Doan's, with continued good health years later. Advert claims price 2/6, Foster McClellan & Co, 313 Murray Street, Perth, urging consumers to get DOAN'S.
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J. H. White
Mears Street
York
Dean
Doan
Foster McClellan
Murray Street
Perth
Miss Upstart Eyes League of Nations Ambition at Club
A wary acquaintance remarks on Miss Upstart flaunting wealth and social ascent. He notes her entry to an exclusive Country Club and reports she bragged at luncheon about seeking admission to the League of Nations as part of her broader ambitions.
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League of Nations
Horrors of the Next War at Edgewood Baltimore
Manchester Guardian correspondent reports on Edgewood Maryland poison gas works. Describes Chemical Warfare Corps, production capacity, defenses, masks, goggles, test chambers, and multiple gases including phosgene Lewisite and chloirophrin. Warns of bombs, aircraft, and potential mass destruction and calls for ending war.
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W .L. Nevison
Manchester Guardian
Washington
America
Edgewood
Baltimore
Chemical Warfare Corps
Army
Artillery
War Office
Hague
Preparations underway for Labor paper launch in Western Australia
The article notes a March campaign push to start a LaborOnly newspaper in Western Australia. It recounts a Jananey 1 ball scene where a young socialite lit a cigarette in a ballroom forbidden for smoking, prompting the hostess to enforce decorum. Commentary praises hostesses maintaining traditional standards in a social world increasingly ruled by the jeune personne.
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Western Australia
Now-N-Dayn
Jeune Personne
Fastern Districts Racing Association Schedule
The Fastern Districts Racing Association lists a series of race dates and locations begining with Jenacubbine Towlyay Meckerrin Vebitary to Vebrary on March 22 and continuing through April and May in towns including Kellerberrin Northam Goomalling York Toodyay Mevkering and Cunderstin with final dates in July.
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Ree
Kellerberrin
Nowtham
Jennacubbine
Neck and Neck in Bourke Exchange and Local Gossip
Traveller reports sending a wire to Stickitt brothers in this city. Official confirms but with no further comment. Mr Highnote claims to be cultivating his voice and was seen irrigating it last night. Question about a new girl is deflected as the old one who painted me.
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Bourke
Stickitt Brothers
Yessir
Couriers' Office Notice to Country Owners
Addrem, Next announces prompt attention to country owners. Couriers' Office issues notice detailing service steps and contact for inquiries. Official reminder emphasizes timely responses and file updates. Local office coordinates delivery paths and scheduling with landowners and agents.
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Addrem
Couriers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fastern Districts Racing Association
Finturas
Jenacubbine Towlyay
Meckerrin
E. J. McKenzie
As Purchased
The
Premier Bakery
Steedman
Northam
Westock
Army Boots
Phillips
Commonwealth Tips Bank
Australia
Aeneet
Steet Eeeries Savings Bank
Gepestis
W. H. Foreman
Ww. H. Foreman
Baker
Door
Mechanics’ Institute
Mervyn Carter
Northay
the Boot Doctor
J. Hegarty
Ing
A. K. Quinn
W.R. King
Northam Courier
Goomalling-Dowerin Mail
P. Coffey
Tanvay
Victor
Riskley
Harry Bygrave
Startad
Northam Municipal —_ ICE and
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PHOMS
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