"The Tory press is frightfully worried because the Referendum will cost £100,000 or thereabouts. That is one of the alleged Tory objections to the ...
Article : 83 words"I am a supporter of the movement, but I prefer the use of the term universal service to conscription, as the latter word conveys associations which I do ...
Article : 125 wordsA now idea in one-piece robes is shown in our illustration, carried out in viyella or crepo. It is made quite plain and full at the hem with patch pockets ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 674 words"Here are a few plain facts for the calamity howlers and for those who would encourage Germany to now talk of peace terms. The Empire's sea-power ...
Article : 92 words"The Countess of Warwick is painfully frank about the 'brainless, chattering, thoughtless, empty company' of social butterflies who are usurping the ...
Article : 74 words"The country knows what it wants. It wants a strong Government to wage war with vigor. Nothing oles matters, and it feels that nothing else matters." ...
Article : 31 words"In England they are threatened with a threefold famine—a famine in munitions, a famine in coal, and a famine in meat. Among the English officers ...
Article : 63 words"Every big piece of ordnance wants 500 shells every day. Every soldier wants ample high explosives. We hold only 35 miles of battle front as against more ...
Article : 52 words"Few people sem to grasp the idea that Australia is in the war up to the eyes, and that the necessity for exerting every nerve in the factory as well as in ...
Article : 77 words"To announce that a freely-governed country like Australia is being asked to take up conscription appears to me to give the impression of weakness, and ...
Article : 80 wordsChop up finely four ounces of cooked ham and one hard-boiled egg. Mix together with a gill of white sauce, a seasoning of pepper and salt, and a little ...
Article : 123 words"I earnestly appeal to you that during the war you should relax aud suspend altogether the strict application of the Trade Union rule with regard to girls ...
Article : 53 words"Legislation is likely to be introduced into the Queensland Parliament with the object of preventing the exploitation of child labor in the dairying ...
Article : 93 words"I believe that in this crisis of our history personal service by everyone at the call of authority is the national need. Delay is wasteful of priceless ...
Article : 82 words"But look at our position to-day! There isn't a country in Europe to-day that does not realise that the destruction of Prussian Militarism is the first ...
Article : 79 wordsTake two ounces of butter and rub it into lialf-a-pound of flour. Mix together two ounces of sugar, half an ounce of chopped peel, and a teaspoonful of ...
Article : 73 wordsOf late the generosity of the public has been so focussed on the larger war funds that one has been tempted to lay aside the claims of the equally deserving ...
Article : 601 wordsStatistics show that thousands of Buildings are needlessly burnt every year because they are built of inflammable materials. Guard against this ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 76 words"The urgent need for economy in private life has produced, the paper petticoat. The idea is not Japanese, but German, and is part of Germany's reply ...
Article : 98 words"General Joffre needs only the undivided loyalty of the civilian population to enable him to have the Germans at his mercy, and to give the Russians ...
Article : 41 words"When I see fine young soldiers in hospital blue hobbling about on one leg, I am tempted to calculate the money value of a leg. "What would you take to ...
Article : 123 wordsTake any left over vegetables—potatoes, carrots, cauliflowers, haricot beans, etc. Slice, tlie potatoes, break the cauliflower into sprigs and slice any ...
Article : 78 words"Probably there never was a time when the taking of a wealth census could be of less use to the Government or more irritating to the people. It is ...
Article : 55 words"Girls are girls, and all are very good; but your Sydney girl is the girl in excelsis—Gloria" in excelsis Deol— and if I didn't love her best of all I ...
Article : 94 words"We might mention the interesting fact that the Nielson Embassy, instead of contracting its expenses, hopes to expand them. We have been told that ...
Article : 107 words"The announcement by Mr. Fisher in the House of Representatives that the total subscriptions to the Commonwealth War Loan will substantially exceed ...
Article : 91 wordsWhen the aiser visited Petrograd in pre-war days he inspected a Cossack Guard of Honour. One of the oflicers had a very fine ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is gratifying to note that the public are well satisfied to do without German Lager Beer. The fact is Foster's Australian Lager is so good that even ...
Article : 111 words"This mad conspiracy against the German nation with England at its Lead, is already showing signs of exhaustion, and right soon it will collapse ...
Article : 42 words"The resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly yesterday morning in favor of closing public houses at 9 o'clock puts the Government in the ...
Article : 57 words"While tie re-taking of Neuvo Chapelle was officially described in glowing terms, the first occasion on which Neuve Chapelle was taken last autumn, when ...
Article : 122 words"Probably large numbers of British troops who survive the conflict will prefer to migrate at once to Australasia or Canada, rather than risk the chance ...
Article : 117 words"Berfen by laud and helpless by the sea, deprived of effective aid from Russia, helplessly hammering at the rock walls of the Dardanelles, the end of ...
Article : 82 words"Everybody will be glad that the charges preferred by Dr. Springthorpe against the administration of Australian Red Cross work in Egypt have at length ...
Article : 72 wordsPut a small quantity of putty powder (which can be bought at a chemist's) into a saucer and mix it with sufficient olive oil to form a paste. Rub on the ...
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Advertising : 166 wordsTake au old and worn-out long-handled soft broom. Cut the hairs short, nail a piece of carpet over it, then cover with the leg portion of a pair of old ...
Article : 50 words"Should not be washed with soda and water, as this makes them liable to burn again. Fill them with cold water, add a large spoonful of salt, and ...
Article : 47 wordsPut an ounce of oxalic acid in sufficient scalding water to cover the hat. Put the hat in and hold it down with a stick, so that it is entirely covered. ...
Article : 53 wordsMuslin curtains, etc., rinse in water to which alum has been added in the proportion of two ounces, to each gallon. This makes the fabric ...
Article : 35 wordsTwo French soldiers took their placcs in the trenches—the one middleaged, who had long since received his baptism of fire, the other a mere youth, ...
Article : 152 wordsColoured muslins and so on dip in cold water to which vinegar had boon added in the porportion of one. tablespoonful to a quart of water. This will ...
Article : 37 wordsPlace a tiny piceo of cotton wool in tlio tip of each finger. This prevents tho nail from rubbing the giovo into a hole. ...
Article : 29 wordsBuy a dye resembliug, as closely as possible, the general colour of the carpet, dilute it in proper proportion, and brush over the shabby faded parts. ...
Article : 45 wordsFor cleaning mirrors and windows there are several articles on the market, but a little soda or kerosene and a little starch put over the glass and allowed ...
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Cowra Free Press (NSW : 1911 - 1937), Sat 2 Oct 1915, Page 3
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