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Newspaper
Warwick Daily News
Location
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 27, 1940
Page
3
A compact set of linguistic questions about italic usage in the Bible name variants spelling chauffeur mis-spellings and a batch of riddle-like queries on insults, anatomy, poetry, animals, and genealogy reflecting a humorous, period newspaper style.
This description outlines vivid cotton prints with a dark ground to match costume colours. Blues such as baby, Sydney, Toronto, Paris blue and purple navy form the base. Bright pinks, yellows, greens, and scarlets blend with blues, plus quieter under Sprigg Song for piece dyed goods. Tropic red and redearth good for sports shirts and apricot tones noted.
The bustle hat with spool waist and streamers gains momentum, the forward tilted top hat with cushion brim pairs with bustle dresses, and the tri corne becomes a featured repeat in couture and millinery shows. The era highlights tricornes as a renewed style in period ensembles and accessories.
The community lists numerous residents and visitors in Warwick spending holidays or vacations. Names include Mr and Mrs C B Garland at Sandgate, Lulu Braithwaite in Warwick, Dulcie McCahon in Toowoomba, Mrs BR Sims at Redcliffe, Sister E P White in transit to Toowoomba, Muriel Stay returning from Brisbane, Betty Armitstead at Dragon Street, and many others visiting relatives or staying at Southport, Brisbane, Sydney, Emu Park, Emu Vale, and nearby towns.
The Warwick Juvenile Temperance Legion held a Saturday concert and Christmas party at Williams Memorial Hall before recess. The event featured a decorated Christmas tree with gifts, a tableau, recitations, and community singing. Each child received a gift, sweets, a letter, and a story page. a silver badge was awarded for three years of service. The evening raised £1 0s 3d to support war savings certificates.
In Nassau last night the Duke of Windsor as Governor of the Bahamas prayed that the end of hostilities would not be distant. He lamented Britain’s entanglements in old world quarrels and called for heed to church teaching and Christmas message. He expressed sympathy for innocent war victims and praised fighting forces.
An advertisement touts Pinkettes as a gentle laxative to improve digestion, clear digestive wastes, banish headaches, pimples, and biliousness, and restore a fit, healthy appearance by reducing fat and improving bowel function.
The piece surveys summer dress trends with draped skirts, bold waistlines, and contrast trims. It highlights tailored pleats, inset panels, and fluted godets, plus high necklines with varied detailing, large pouched pockets, padded shoulders, and novel sleeve inserts like raglan and dolman. Accessories favor flat heels, wedge sandals, large monogrammed handbags, and the return of the pochette envelope shape.
The text outlines a child's daily meals from breakfast to dinner, with detailed portions and food choices for ages from birth to after five years. It emphasizes milk intake, variety of fruits and vegetables, protein sources, and avoiding rich pastries, spicy foods, or excessive sweets, plus strict meal regularity and firmness in mealtime rules.
In Toulouse on Thursday the German authorities fined the people of Orleans one million francs after an unsuccessful manhunt for the perpetrator. The German military telephone inc. was not involved in the action.
A pantry of turkey and ham based dishes is outlined. recipes include Savory Ham with potatoes and olives baked in a buttered casserole, Turkey Fricassee with stock and peas served in pastry cases or on toast, and Turkey and Egg Scallop layered with white sauce and hard boiled eggs.
Practical guidance on repurposing leftover foods from potatoes to desserts. Includes reheating methods for potatoes in salads gratin or fritters and using softened vegetables with butter. Covers dessert reuse such as jelly custard stewed fruits and plum pudding reheating with custard or in slices fried or baked.
A collection of practical tips for cleaning, preserving, and cooking tasks. Advice covers cleaning tinsel shoes with oatmeal and cloths, rust removal for buckles using bath-brick and lemon juice, mustard to remove fishy smell from saucepans, lemon and glycerine for hands, extending shoe and stocking life with copa varnish, garter use to spare stockings, raking leaves with a cork on rake prongs, removing grease from soup with lettuce, and enhancing mayonnaise with grated radish and cayenne.
BRISBANE. Private George Luckett 26 of the ALP was fatally injured when the car he rode in to Noosa Heads capsized near Tewantin. He was spending his final leave with his parents at Tewantin.
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