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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
10
A homemaking column offers fig based recipes and prep tips. It details washing soaking steaming and combining figs with rice bread crumbs and custard with meringue. Additional notes cover pastry shrinkage and keeping broom bristles durable through hot salty water.
Narrator recalls hosting visitors during a farm stay. They moved eighty pallets, rode to Guelph for shopping and dog-spotting, and faced a calving spree with three heifer calves in as many days. Aboard the train home Daughter brings onions and pussy willows, while London notes Red Cross messages passing through Geneva.
A German broadcast via the BBC reported a planned match between Gradjanski Club of Croatia and Magyvaradi Athletic Club of Hungary was blocked. Partisans halted the Hungarian team by delaying their train at Brod station and tearing up rails along the Agram Be line during a Segnuee fight.
The text surveys Canada's wartime economic organization up to the latest date, with an Introduction on the war program, Armed Forces growth, financial steps, and government bodies. It reviews the wartime economic commission and features a special article on the effects of the war on Canadian forestry and resource depletion.
Those who received ration book No. 4 must inspect sheets for green tea coffee pink sugar orange preserves purple butter brown meat and Ti and SK coupons. If the book lacks the stated counts return it immediately to the focal ration board.
The text notes Western butter output increased relative to other provinces from 1938 to 1943 as Canada’s dairy focus shifted westward due to wartime needs. Prairie provinces produced about 30 percent of creamery butter in 1938, with war effects erasing the geographic center toward the West while Ontario and Quebec remained the largest producers and population centers.
Estevan CP reports Andrew King formerly of Rouleau Saskatchewan has moved to Estevan after acquiring the Estevan Mercury. His poster printing plant will stay in Rouleau for now and move later. He served on Rouleau Town Council for ten years including a term as mayor.
In Berkeley California Prof Rath Hainer and UC agricultural engineers devised a shearing bar to split beet seeds into small meda allowing mechanical thinning. The method, first used widely in 1943, saved over 3000000 man hours by enabling thinning at intervals.
The Board of Trade urges Canada to legalize oleomargarine production and sale to bridge the butter shortage during wartime. The measure would be temporary, ending when butter supply meets demand and substitutes are no longer needed. Powell River News reports from British Columbia.
A Canadian National Railways Morse operator’s pay cheque vanished into payroll deductions for cane sex commendably and a five hundred red Victory Bond. The incident, part of the Believe It or Not class, highlights the rarity of such a mishap as nearly 2,300,000 pay cheques are issued yearly.
The passage praises loyal residents who champion their hometown, spreading its advantages and supporting local organizations. They help others love the town, advance public causes, and extend the town’s reputation and influence beyond its borders.
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