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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1941
Page
6
A home style guide highlights eggs as economical and versatile main dishes for meals. Recipes include scalloped eggs with cheese sauce, a rice eye casserole, bread egg cups and buttered toast toppings with milk, flour and seasonings.
The Commonwealth Apple and Pear Board plans to supply every soldier in the Australian Imperial Forces with an apple each day as a morale measure. The slogan implies a daily fruit habit will be ensured for service members in Canberra.
Ottawa dispatch outlines census rules for June survey including homemakers definitions, part time workers students and job distinctions. It explains how to classify women with multiple earnings, lodging house keepers, and various occupational labels while urging careful enumerator distinctions.
A long local column laments poor road conditions across Ontario and blames government and highways for the delay. It urges readers to stay off roads, maximize pantry supplies, and adapt chores from baking to sewing while noting a wet fall and late spring slowed seeding. The writer shares garden dates, broodiness in hens, and efforts to work around road-imposed obstacles.
Last month the government launched a war savings drive to fund planes tanks and other equipment for the armed forces. Schools aim to raise funds via banking or stamp methods and urge all students to pledge portions of earnings to War Savings Certificates or stamps to help defeat Hitler.
Washington livestock growers use dyed No 2 potatoes for cattle under federal supervision. They are paid five dollars per ton to divert surplus potatoes from human consumption. The process colors the potatoes with a harmless dye and allows sale for livestock food under federal inspection.
Readable fragments describe a nostalgia stained scene with a factory visit, a theater, and a tobacco shop reflecting on recent events. Names and places are partially legible but the overall sense centers on a paused moment in a town dealing with shifting routines and quiet awe.
In Manchester a British recruit finds himself in an auxiliary unit handling women’s garments while stationed at a supply depot. London reports a wartime dog training program spurred an influx of dogs sent by the public, with officials stating only the needed animals will be kept.
Rev Percy J D Jones of Wandsworth Common the chaplain to Vanguard the Battle of Jutland died after being struck by a motor car in Battersea. He sustained fatal injuries while walking near his home.
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