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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
4
Fragmented OCR recipe notes describe luncheon dishes with steps for cooking rice, making an aspic salad with egg, and assembling meat or fowl dishes. Instructions include reheating, salad components, mashed or mashed-like potatoes, and a crusted meat patty method.
The article discusses winter hair styling focusing on the Edwardian trend with hair scraped up at the neck and ringlets on top. It notes the fashion’s prestige in Paris and London and the challenge of wearing it, with hats perched to show curls and a shifting sense of style as overseas designers introduce new wardrobes.
The article traces ringlets from Queen Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette through Empress Eugenie to Victorian style, noting their return without hats for evenings and with velvet bows. It highlights adaptable hat trends and asks whether curls will be worn up or down in modern fashion.
The text outlines partial instructions for assembling a dish with rice, meat, and a breaded crust. It mentions boiling rice, draining, seasoning with pepper salt and cayenne, shaping into squares, coating with breadcrumbs, and freezing, then assembling layers with lard and aspie, finishing with a gingerbread-like batter and spice mix for a baking tin. The passage is garbled and hard to parse, but centers on a layered baked dish with rice filling and a spiced batter.
The readable portion describes mixing spice and batter with butter. It mentions adding Tre variety and raisins, grated rind, and ginger. The text is garbled with mis-spellings and unclear steps but indicates a cake or batter preparation with baking in a tin and incorporating fruit and flavorings.
A historical fragment counsels minimal effort for hand care, praising old kid gloves over cotton. It recommends rubbing hands with a weekly mixture of rosewater, sugar, and lemon juice, drying thoroughly after water exposure, and using lime rubber gloves for protection. The text notes varying remedies and storage, with faded references to materials and routines.
Fragments describe red lips, rosy cheeks, and a beauty standard praised by readers. Mentions of Pink Title, Williams, and references to complexion, skin tone, and facial features appear amid disjointed lines about cosmetics and facial attractiveness.
A mixed page features letters from Young Companions members thanking the club, sharing daily life and weather, and inviting entries. A bee hive tale follows, describing a beekeeper guiding a swarm to a new hive, smoke, queen cells, and lessons about bee biology.
Helena Rubinstein argues powder is the essential makeup item stressing its ability to enhance good points and conceal flaws. She details quality, adherence, color, and skin type considerations, advising lighter daytime use, proper shade choice, and careful application to avoid aging effects.
Advertisement promotes Mexicana patterns for linens with 10 motifs in Pattern 17K. It offers transfers and stitch illustrations, with color schemes. Requires a postal note or stamps for 4/1, plus name and address, sent to The U Noentes craft, P.O. Box 490K, Sydney.
The passage describes applying a thick coating to tone the skin from the eyebrows to the fingertips with emphasis on the neck, nose, and eye areas. A final brush along the eyebrows and lashes with a small brush completes the process.
A local notice urges residents to mail old door handles and finger plates for chromium plating. Screws should be sent as well. An electrician or manager promises quick turnaround at a small cost, with attention to easily removing parts.
An old advertisement touts a two shilling pint of a chest nose and throat remedy named HEENZO or MEENZO. It claims internal use for coughs olds coup bronchitis and use as a nasal antiseptic for rattarib and colds. It promises instant relief from sore throats and states it saves immunity.
The note seems to mix garbled phrases about sending something to a person called Gin Hugh and mentions a Colt company and a rise follow up. Details are unclear and difficult to parse for a factual newspaper item.
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