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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 09, 1940
Page
4
A fragmented recipe lists ingredients including corn flakes butter sugar baking powder milk salt cayenne egg and grated cheese. The text is garbled with misread measures and formatting errors.
The Australian Defence Canteen Service and Postal Department run Canteen Orders to simplify giving to soldiers in Palestine and Australia. Orders are cashlike, protect buyers, prevent loss, and can be used for goods with paybook ID. Profits fund regimental amenities and gifts reach troops.
The Volunteer Defence Force grows stronger after another successful parade on August 3. Curani Red Cross gains £14 from an August 1 charity afternoon at Mrs. B. L. Clarkson's home. Arthur and Dully Purnell hosted a 21st birthday gathering with Dully announcing engagement to George Westlake. Eight Wyening-Bolyart-Calingiri recruits passed medicals for the Toodyay Light Horse. In Victoria Plains football Calingiri beat Wyening to become minor premiers with semi finals set for August 11. Hockey ended in a Wyening Calingiri draw as minor premiers seek next rounds.
The president's trophy at Toodyay Golf Club ended in a tie between P. Lee and G. Wing with 62 net. In a midweek playoff G. Wing won. A mixed team from Toodyay is scheduled to go to Bolgart on Sunday August 11.
The paper states weekly Friday morning print with contributions urged early in the week and no later than Thursday noon. Alterations to standing ads must be submitted by Wednesday night and will now be strictly enforced to balance the work week.
Simple hostess recipe tips for Corn Flakes Cakes with chocolate and nuts. Includes ingredients Kellogg's Corn Flakes walnuts butter sugar cocoa and eggs and baking steps from awakening to cooling on a slide. Describes beating eggs melting butter and baking briefly for setting texture.
The statement asserts that each Canteen Order will add to the comfort well being and contentment of our troops through improved provisioning and morale boosting services.
Friday night at Toodyay Town Hall hosted a fund raising card evening for the National Emergency League with bridge rummy euchre crib and a cake raffle donated by H W Hillbrick. Winners included E W James for the cake and prizes totaled 21 pounds 18 shillings for the night. Other victors were Brewis Pearce Lambert Ohde Garnett J Smith Peter Lee and Miss Garnett. A separate baby competition event in Toodyay Ladies Club room awarded trophies to Retallack Spencer Watson and others.
A compiled roster of local officials and club leaders. It includes parliamentary members L Thorn M.L.A Ver non Hamersley M.L.C Barnet B erat M.L.A Chas Baxter and J Phillips chairing the Road Board, with secretaries and officers for branches of Red Cross, police, schools, banks, and multiple community organizations in Toodyay.
A subscriber who refuses or neglects to take periodicals from the post office can be held responsible until the publisher is informed to discontinue. Refusal is prima facie evidence of fraud, and changing address without notice makes the old address liable. Anyone using a delivered publication pays for it, and advance payments require notice to stop at term end.
At the Calingiri branch annual meeting the secretary listed items made by members including 18 tray cloths 13 flannels 11 Manuel shirts 19 milk jug covers 6 face washers 7 toilet bags 20 prs socks 16 scarves 3 hot water bag covers 1 pr knee caps 1 balaclava helmet 1 pr mittens and 1 cardigan Funds raised and donations sent to the Lady Gowrie fund leaving a credit balance of £32 after £21 spent on donations and materials First aid classes are conducted by Mrs. Edmondson Altogether a very creditable year’s work.
Prime Minister Menzies announced a temporary halt to A L F recruiting as Australia concentrates on raising a 250 000 strong Home Defence Force. He noted 77 000 in camp, surpassing wartime highs, and highlighted 41 000 AIF enlistments in four weeks, exceeding 1915 figures.
We invite readers to send news and general items especially on land and stock matters. Secretaries of clubs and institutions should inform the editor of progress and intentions. Send notices of meetings and keep the district paper informed to record local doings.
A humorous note on newspaper life and the editor’s dilemma. The piece jokes that printing others’ material brings praise or scorn, clipping from rivals offends some readers, and changing someone else’s write up invites criticism. It ends with a playful confession that the paper swiped content from another paper.
All accounts should be paid to the Toodyay head office or to The United Press Ltd Perth office at 971 Hay Street.
The article lists weights for flour sugar butter and other staples. It equates two level tablespoons flour to 1 oz and two level cups to 1 lb, with similar rules for sugar butter cocoa salt and liquids. It notes a medicine glass as reliable for teaspoons and tablespoons and states three pennies weigh 1 oz and an ordinary egg weighs 2 oz.
An old promotional notice urges kidney health by flushing out waste. It claims the kidneys contain 16 miles of tubes and 15 miles of filters and warns of acid buildup causing backaches leg pains and swelling. It promotes Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as quick relief from the excess waste and urges purchase at chemists.
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