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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
4
Simple party fare ideas for a Christian season tea party with catering duties for family gatherings. Suggestions include new sandwich fillings and small cakes, with easy sweets and candies. A sample fish filling uses tin fish olives capers and cream batter between brown and white bread slices.
The piece urges a simple home first aid kit stored out of children’s reach with items like cotton, eye bath, adhesive tape, olive oil, Candy’s crystals, needles, cotton, and tweezers. It gives basic wound care steps for a child ripping skin on a barb wire fence, using wart water with Candy’s crystals, gentle washing, and iodine to close tears while nature heals.
The piece advises country households on managing pre Christmas duties while still harvesting. It urges maintaining a bright spirit, suggests kitchen tips for fillings and garnishes, and outlines a baking plan with fruit, spice, and decorative touches to share a cheerful holiday atmosphere despite the workload.
Instructions describe making rolls by layering pepper and salt between brown bread slices and inserting a slice of aspartus in the center, then combining brown and white bread into individual rolls. The fragment preserves a stepwise food preparation detail and specific ingredient mentions.
Recipe text describes preparing a layered cake with butter cream and stewed apples. Includes ingredients like white linen, foxhine, becade powder, vaseline, sugar, cinnamon, ground almonds, and custard elements. Steps mention beating yolks and whites, folding into batter, lining patty tins, filling with cranberry jam, and baking twenty minutes in a brisk oven.
The article details an eye irrigation remedy using boracic lotion Horace ganger water and castor oil. It instructs patient to sit in a dark room with eyes closed and avoid water, to allow the lime to sink and neutralize, then rinse.
A family letter section opens with Uncle Hugh chatting with children about holidays and country life, urging early entry for a new Chentias competition and fond wishes for their rest. Replies to letters follow from readers Rena Déckman Roy Davies Bee Drage Ken and Mr Barker, noting confirmations and encouragement.
A collage of playful exchanges and small town scenes features a sour note about harvest debts as a farmer and storekeeper argue over payments. The piece includes traveler banter, cheerful dialogue, and a request for Christmas verse lines, plus a teachers mock sermon and a lively Friends column seeking pen pals and hobby interests across Australian towns.
A fragmented report outlines a new cricket competition. It mentions semis and a December 17 date, with unclear terms and partial names. The text hints at familiar tennis terms and missing letters in several words, suggesting a cryptic transcription from an OCR source.
A dated guide lists home remedies for snake bites sunstroke fainting and minor injuries. It covers applying tight bandages to bites, cutting with a knife, sucking wounds, candy crystals, cooling for sunstroke, elevating and cooling for fainting, sponging the face, and basic wound care with linen and soap. It also gives cautions on splinter removal tooth care during fits and burn care with baking soda solutions.
A vintage style recipe describes mixing grated cheese with milk eggs and breadcrumbs with herbs until thickened. The mixture is poured into a greased dish and baked about thirty minutes until the custard firms and is served white as a nourishing dish.
Incomplete OCR fragment discusses infant feeding and system progress. The readable portion mentions Alyste shags and progress even without the...
A vintage advertisement offers a transfer pattern of a 15 20 inch picture with a colour chart and stitch illustrations. Send a postal note or stamps for 1/1 plus your name and address to The United Needlecraft, PA Rox SI90X, Sydney.
An aged fragment advises home remedies for burns with tea and clean rags and warns to seek hospital care for deep burns. It also mentions poisoning protocols and suggests hospital or baby health center guidance for mothers worried about infants thriving.
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