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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
5
An advertisement argues washing with Sublight soap avoids scalding steam and heavy labor, claiming it keeps women younger looking. It touts lukewarm water washing that cleans whites brighter, colors livelier, and fabrics softer with minimal effort.
A Ladies column offers practical craft and cooking notes. It details a dainty bonnet pattern with three pieces and lace embellishments, then transitions to several traditional Irish dishes with step by step cooking guides for stews hashes and a curry variant. It emphasizes serving hot with careful gravy control.
A collection of practical house hints includes polishing knives with charcoal powder and removing grease from wallpaper with spirits of wine. It also covers softening putty with a heated soldering iron, cleaning patent leather using a French harness polish, saving stocking wear by gumging wash leather inside heel seams, and preserving Maidenhair Ferns by wrapping damp towels around mature fronds.
A recipe fragment details two dishes Lamb Pile and Heef in Aspic with instructions. Lamb Pile uses neck meat parsley mint puff pastry and gravy baked one and a half hours. Heef in Aspic covers cold beef with capers and aspic jelly, sliced and arranged, served with chopped egg.
An unsigned dim painting bought for fourpence in Reggio Emilia by a dealer is claimed to be a genuine Vandyck after Professor Balletti offered five francs for it and later refused L100. Police were needed at Troy New York to quell a collar factory strike by hundreds of protesting girls.
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