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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 10, 1925
Page
3
A 1910s analysis argues diet drives obesity and illness. It compares human and primate eating patterns, notes excess albumen and uric acid from modern diets, and stresses careful regulated dieting under medical guidance to avoid health decline and premature death.
Miss Mabel Green, blind from birth, typed dictation at normal speed and transcribed notes with a seven key machine. Working for the National Institute for the Blind, she and author Arthur Harrows produced The Story of Broadcasting, claimed to be the first book written entirely via such method with flawless accuracy.
The article describes a rare white kookaburra with gleaming white plumage and pink beak and eyes, noted as shunned by normal kookaburras and sitting apart. It also highlights a pink fluff resembling a white possum, admired for beauty.
The article discusses recognizing early signs of obesity and cautions against rapid focal fat loss. It cites a Swedish book Growing Thin or Growing Fat with practical tips on meal timing, liquid intake, and gentle weight control. It recommends morning alkaline drinks, larger morning intake, and small evening beverages, plus rules to chew well, stop eating on time, and drink sparingly.
The article highlights Kosciuszko as a premier winter retreat for Australian youth and students from Sydney and Melbourne. It notes bright, low humidity days, vigorous ski activity, daily dancing, and expanding hotel capacity to host about 2,000 guests each winter. Government tours promote inclusive trips with practical literature on travel and snow attire, sustaining growing public interest and seasonal carnivals.
The author argues for aggressive pruning of roses, stating that vigorous varieties respond best to hard cuts. From long observation and years of experiments, roses are cut to within eighteen inches in August, then regrow over twenty four inches in spring. Experts claim this harms roses, but the method has proven practical and profitable.
A medical article warns mothers about the dangers of baby comforters or pacifiers. It links harrowing effects such as adenoids, mouth ulcers, nasal obstruction, misaligned jaws, and increased infection risk to long term use, urging removal and branding the item the discomforter.
Describes Sydney’s harbor lights at night as a welcoming, jewel like display from Double Bay to Neutral Bay. The writer praises crimson signals and arc lamps, notes reflections on the water, and contrasts beauty with daylight ugliness. Ferries move softly, conveying a message of welcome to ships and people.
In the northern section of Rabaul near the Botanic Gardens lies Ching Town a shaded street lined with flowering trees and marked by red blotches on the ground. Roughly a thousand Chinese shopkeepers tradesmen and cooks live here under a blend of East and West architecture while practicing native attire and pidgin for communication Chinatown supplies Rabaul with cooks firemen blacksmiths fitters gardeners and wharf laborers.
A dialogue shows one Doctor worried by a patient’s death and another mentions two medicines. A visitor asks the patient’s age and a farmer jokes, claiming the cow is two years old by the hems, revealing a rural pun about aging.
The article recalls a long tradition at St Bernard Monastery where visitors received food and lodging free. With over 20,000 annual guests now and winter isolation at 5000 feet, the monks shift to a hotel with fixed tariffs.
A vintage recipe collection describes rhubarb dessert with lemon peel and butter, vegetable sausages made from peas carrots onions and parsnips, and cup puddings for invalids. It includes chocolate butter icing with vanilla and chocolate.
A handwritten list of old time recipes including Welsh cheesecakes with short pastry, sultana cake, ginger pudding, cheese pudding, plain lemon pudding and an aside about patience and hard work. Measurements are inconsistent with many OCR errors but indicate egg, sugar, butter, flour, sultanas, candied peel and treacle. Baking methods include steaming in basins and browning in ovens.
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