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Newspaper
Maitland Mercury
Location
Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 26, 1939
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a round or event titled Mat Wit with vague phrases such as Vi Ouilly and 1443 years hour slubet. No clear names, places, dates, or outcomes are readable.
The Daily Mercury prize list features Mrs. A Richards Rutherford as winner for Passionfruit delicacies. Read on for a parade of recipes including Passionfruit Souffle Passionfruit Canoves Tart and many fruit filled desserts from readers Miss Allie Crappel Glen William to Miss Rita Ford Glen William and more.
A Maitland Mercury page lists multiple fruit dessert recipes using passionfruit. Recipes include Passionfruit Conserve Passionfruit Jam Fig and Passionfruit jam and Passionfruit Puddings with detailed steps and ingredients credited to Mrs. B.E. Gilson Miss Allin Trapper Mrs. S.E. Mowig and Miss R. Anderson from Hinton Glen William and New Lambton.
A column of household tricks and advice cites Mrs. B. Kime and Mr. Thorley Singleton as prize winners and covers tips on cooking rhubarb with Preston fruit pulp, cleaning lamps, whitening fabrics, stain removal, preserving leather, baking apples, removing moths, polishing windows, and keeping dresses and suedes in good condition.
In a tense forest chase, Con disappears after entering a submerged passage. Dwyer and Dunstan race to track him, while Grace faces danger at Long Hollow. Dick and Grace confront decisions on departure and protection as Con presses toward a hidden escape.
Advert says Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills cleanse 15 miles of kidney tubes and purge waste from the body. It claims fast action, and urges readers to buy from local chemists in Sidney for relief from pains, heaviness, and swelling.
Passionfruit meringue uses egg whites caster sugar and a cool baked meringue shell filled with whipped cream and passionfruit pulp. Porcupine dessert layers sago milk passionfruit pulp almonds and pink colour then tops with cream and a passionfruit sauce for decoration.
A promotional snippet urges women to use Charmagan Charmosal daily to preserve youthful skin through hot sun dust and wind. It claims millions already trust the product and that Charmosan powder lasts long without fading under heat.
An oddly garbled advertisement references Creme Charmosan and a bold display by chemists, drapers, and stores. The fragment suggests a fashion or beauty product promotion with pricing and placement cues, but details are unclear.
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