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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 25, 1939
Page
4
A fragmented collection of kitchen guidance with archaic phrasing. It outlines simmering vegetables, thickening soups, serving guides for meat and vegetables, and notes on old fowl preparations with sauces. Includes steps for rendering, boiling, and combining ingredients to produce meals.
The feature blends fashion notes with kitchen lore as Mary Howard discusses accessory curio pairings and the culinary habit of making pot au feu. It covers using lobster ornament, glove details, and a practical recipe for a hearty day’s soup with vegetables, herbs, and stock, stressing preparation and serving guidance.
A garbled OCR fragment contains stray phrases and names such as Williams Pink Pita and references to a person named Mie MAW. The legible content is sparse and nonsensical, preserving little coherent narrative and no clear events, dates, or locations to summarize.
A fragment of a grooming feature discusses smart new hair styles and maintaining a permanent wave. It advises taking time for care, using a hairdresser comb, pins, curlers, and a hair setting lotion to keep hair in place and prevent frizz. The text notes logs about dealing with fat and planning routines before bed.
Pattern 1718 offers a transfer motif in two small designs and a larger 10x10 inch block with accompanying stitch illustrations and a color chart. It instructs on easy embrnkery stitches suitable for new or old material and lists material requirements. Send a postal note or stamps for 0/1 to obtain Pattern Aumiter Requited at The Colled Neellevealt Sydney.
The readable text contains partial phrases about keeping wood, smiles, and massage. No named persons, organizations, places, dates, or concrete actions are evident. Likely a stray or damaged snippet with unrelated sensory descriptions and nonsensical insertions.
A poetic fragment evokes inland rain arriving with Nor’Wester winds over a drought scarred land. The scene shifts from red daylight to grey drizzle as rivers rise and silence deepens on the plains. The poem laments despair, lauds rain’s return, and ends with imagery of the island rain and hopeful steady cadence.
An unclear fragment discusses hair styling options promising bright results. It mentions perming, reducing length, and claims about the effects on hair texture and appearance. The text references costs, techniques, and perceived benefits without coherent narrative or verifiable details.
Health notes discuss conditions linked to acidity in the body and skin eruptions. It mentions acid symptoms, a potential connection to vitals, and references to a Lady and various medical terms, though the text is garbled and contains many unclear words and names.
The article explains styling hair with a curler to set a permanent wave, using a net to protect pins while sleeping. It advises how to roll each hair strand at a slant, keep pins in place, and suggests wearing a daytime net to maintain the curl. The piece notes extra care extends the wave and reduces the hourdresser’s bill.
A dated culinary note describes skinning, stewing, deboning, and chopping aged poultry to make a meat filling. It instructs simmering in water until bones separate, returning meat to broth with seasonings, straining, then moulding and chilling the dish. Gelatine may be added, with cream to remove stains and a sun-drying step for finishing.
Fashion notes describe a shift from old world elegance to bold midseason styles. Hats retreat, skirts shorten, bustles reappear, and mothers approve as new fabrics and tailored lines refresh spring wardrobes across garments and accessories.
The article reviews midcentury beach fashion with likely feminist overtones, noting feminine charm, tailored shorts, two piece outfits, frills, and hats. It mentions lace edged cutiwale, orient turban styles, and the impracticality of tiny hats with flowers while questioning rising beach coverings and high heels.
This essay argues happiness is not youth but the later years, noting youth brings stormy, constrained growth and external pressures. It describes the awkward in-between phase where girls become women, facing limits while seeking independence, and questions the assumption that youth equals happiness.
The text explains how baby stools reflect digestion and diet. It lists normal ranges from meconium to semi solid stools and explains how colour, consistency, odour, and reaction indicate feeding adequacy. Abnormalities include green stools, curds, large bulky stools, pale or mucous stools, and signs of infection or malabsorption. Consult a pediatric nurse for guidance.
Auned text reflects on youth and middle age, arguing youth enjoy more freedom and spending power as they become their own master. It notes youth’s arrogance toward older happiness but concludes middle age gains broader experience and overall contentment through life’s different stages.
A cracked recipe describes making a fish omelette with two eggs, Hoss batter, and salted seasoning. It instructs beating yolks with pepper, mixing in cooked fish with porter and anchovy sauce, lemon juice and parsley, then folding in beaten egg whites. Cook in butter, finish under a grill or in a hot oven.
An advertisement touts a two shilling pint of a home remedy for chest nose and throat ailments. It promotes mixing concentrated Heenzo with water for internal use against coughs colds bronchitis and other ailments and claims antiseptic and relief benefits.
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