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Newspaper
Yea Chronicle
Location
Yea, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
4
The Minister of Defence approved height and chest standards for enlistment in Australian forces. Minimum height without boots is 5 ft 2 in with 33 in chest. exceptions allow 5 ft with district commandant approval for certain infantry roles, machine gunners, and drivers. The move aims to boost reinforcements and morale amid recruitment concerns.
A vintage domestic column offers recipes including potato soup with butter milk and sago, tripe pies with forcemeat, and inexpensive brawn. It details peeling slicing frying in butter, simmering with water, skimming, adding milk sago and seasoning, then boiling until sago clears. Also describes preparing brawn from a pig’s head with brine, cooking bones, and forming firm meat with seasoned liquor.
A fragment lists quirky kitchen ideas from leftover sandwiches fried to a brown crisp to salted almond sandwiches baked in oil and cayenne. It also offers charcoal biscuits claret jelly butter cakes moonshine and other vintage culinary hints with steps and measurements.
Rail tariffs list prices for various routes and classes. First class return fares are shown for multiple destinations with single and return options. Second class and single journey rates are provided, including adjustments by route and date.
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