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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
7
There’s a summer menu plan with cold plate luncheons including Celebration Salad in Crisp Lettuce Cups Fresh Asparagus Hollandaise Sauce Radishes Celery Hot Orange Bran Muffins Teed Tea with Lemon Fresh Pruitt Salad Cream Cheese and Watercress Sandwiches Carrot Sticks and an Individual Lemon Chiffon Pudding. Recipes show lemon garnish cooling benefits and a lemon French dressing tied to a cold chicken salad with celery and grape halves.
Fashion note suggests a versatile inter season coat in blue and wine red striped tweed. Features include red leather belt and buttons, robed collar, patch pockets, vertical and horizontal stripe use, bloused back. Stripes predicted to grow in popularity with advance models.
Minister of Finance Hon. J. L. Isley announced proposed amendments to the Income War Tax Law. Exemptions of up to 40 for children from war zones and 50 of gifts to certain war service funds are allowed. Donations to other enterprises may deduct up to 10 of income. Dependents' Allowance Board in Ottawa receives growing applications as armed forces strength rises.
A Cornish laundry owner was buried in a coffin he ordered eleven years earlier and used as a safe in his office, a tale of unusual prudence. In Silver City NC motorists complain traffic lights linger red with a tale of a driver who slept at a red light. A Minneapolis nursery firm makes 25 bulletproof prams for Aruba buyers. No lynching occurred in the U S in the first six months of 1940, a rare refrain. A Brazilian schoolboy held in a cellar with a snake scare. teacher’s neglect ends in tragedy. Strand South Africa sees repeated blackouts due to rats in transformers. locals plan extermination. In Cardiff a woman named Davies receives a call-up notice but is sent home due to a mistaken gender assumption.
A London article advises civilians to stay calm during air-raids. It urges taking cover, gathering family, using gas masks, and moving quietly to shelters while avoiding panic or loud alarms.
Tenders accepted for 40 million dollars of Dominion of Canada Treasury Bills due October 16 1940. Average discount price 0.91808. Average yield 7.16 percent.
Gwendoline P. Clarke presents a serialized chronicle set at Ginger Farm. The piece reflects rural life themes and offers vignettes of daily work, family routines, and local color in a reflective narrative style.
A farmer reports 27 dead chickens found in the pen after a suspected skunk raid and notes a prior incident. He links the event to broader wartime parallels and questions traveling farm magazine agents who press for subscriptions amid scarce finances. He recalls two agents, one a disabled veteran and another with a soldier’s button, both urging subscriptions and testing his patience. He worries about overrun publishers and tips his stance on supporting deserving cases.
War era notes describe German price inflation and black market coffee at three dollars a pound, cucumbers at 75 cents, and Allied bombings of European airdromes. Britons and Russians are shown in wartime posture, with Kaiser reportedly in Potsdam and a Calais defense remembered.
The Department of Munitions and Supply and predecessors report 36000 units valued at about 67 million dollars including special bodies wheels and tires. Ten thousand units have been delivered and plant capacities should hit 5000 units per month this year. Further orders for 7000 units will shortly be placed.
Canada will add Universal carrier vehicles to its war production. The Caterpillar treaded armoured carriers will carry three Bren guns or transport ammunition and wireless gear. Ford Motor Company of Canada in Windsor is chosen to manufacture these devices for home and overseas forces.
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