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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Apr 23, 1942

Page

6

Adare Visit Reveals Ireland's Quiet War and Charm

The writer travels from London to neutral Southern Ireland with Canadian editors. In Adare the village’s whitewashed cottages, thatched roofs, Desmond castle ruins, and elm-lined streets reveal a picturesque past. Ireland's neutrality, wartime tensions, and a poetically described landscape shape the stopover.

Neutral Erre Ireland Chaice Scotland Empire London England Bournemouth Britain British Overseas Airways Einglish Paate Poole Las Salit Poole Harbor Othe Chaim Han Tient Hut Houpet New York Lisbon Europe Coune Ateways Portugal Canada Adare B. K. Sandwell Trish Sore Cromwell Bilack Abbey White Abbey Desmond Castle de Valera Treland Trish Uiste Tagerle Grattan van Be Ferguy Dunraven Avalla Maigue Desmond-castle Fitzgerald Deamond Lord Dunraven Gerald Griffiths Vale

British Meat Shortage Sparks Rabbit Crow Horse Trade

Dublin dispatch reports British meal shortages push meat buyers to Ireland to source rabbits crows and horses at cross roads markets. Prices range from four shillings per pair for rabbits to nine pence for crows as buyers hope for a wartime diet shift despite censorship and limited advertisements.

Dublin Dare Eire London Britain

Halton farmers plan record spring grain sowing

Halton Agricultural War Service Committee reports farmers plan the largest spring grain acreage in years due to favorable fall plowing and seed shortages. Milk and meat production rise with more cows and laws, while meadow and pasture conditions prompt renewed emphasis on top dressing and supplementary crops for hay and pasture.

Halton Farmershare Halton Agricultural War Service Committee States Agricultural Representative T.E. Whitelock Whitelock Britain Hatton Agricultural War Service Committee Geo. Raithby Ge Animal Husbandry Department Co Aoc Pvt Raithbs OAC Sudan Raith Per Acer Hans

Fragmentary OCR News Item on Wartime Topic

Reading is unclear but mentions Norway and German officers and a claimed taking over duty. Details and entities are incomplete, with many garbled words and missing context.

Norway

Food conscience urged to combat rationing era greed

In Jerusalem Anglican Bishop Dr Graham Brown asks readers to adopt a food conscience amid rationing, high prices, and markets. He calls for fair sharing of staples, repudiation of profiteering, restraint, avoidance of waste, and adherence to dietary guidance.

Jerusalem Graham Brown

Lane fires house in Birmingham plane crash aftermath

Occupants of a British plane were killed when it crashed near here and burst into flames, setting a farmhouse on fire. The crash left a blaze that consumed the building as rescuers searched the wreckage.

Birmingham

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