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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1912
Page
4
A dense trade directory style page lists numerous local businesses and services across Northam, Dowerin, Goomalling, and surrounding areas. Names include Arthur Bell, A H Greenham, Donovan, Goomalling Hotel, Gillie Edwards, Levy, Patton, O’Brien, Malperson Co, and Watkins and Mitomell among many others, with varied trades from hotels and dining rooms to veterinary services, furniture, and millinery.
Readers are advised on kerosene use as a cleansing aid to whiten and freshen clothes with minimal odor. Instructions cover removing heavy grease from childrens garments, applying ammonia wash, and reapplying kerosene as needed. Also included are DIY household items like a string holder and a knitting needle holder.
The reader is guided through a whimsical method for brewing coffee, detailing steps from heating water to steeping, pouring, and finishing with optional sugar and cream. The instructions emphasize timing, temperature, and careful stirring, with a playful tone throughout.
A jumble of dessert recipes and kitchen instructions covers making custards, sponge cake, butter cream, and baked custard. Steps include beating eggs, heating milk with sugar, folding in flavors like vanilla, nutmeg, and almonds, shaping into cups, and baking in a water bath.
The Quelquetting meeting of the Mumberkine Jarokine Race Club is set for tomorrow at Tenpwell with many entries in each event. A special train leaves Sortham at 9 30 am and returns from Janmecubbins at 00 am. Jackpots include the Ulial Stakes and multiple handicap and purse events featuring horses such as Joy Girl Lily Spl and Lady Rossa with various weights and prizes listed for each race.
Acceptances and Dongaster Handicap entries listed for a race day in April. Specific details about contestants or times not readable from the fragment.
At the Northam Municipal Council meeting Cx Milner introduced the Noctham Band request for aid. He noted the band had grown from a 10 pound annual subsidy to a valued town asset after spending about 75 pounds on town hall use for picturing shows. Council debated financial help, the band’s debt, and the need for a timely decision at the next meeting with plans for a further finance discussion.
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