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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
4
Anne Allan’s Homemaking column offers practical jam making methods including pectin use and sugar ratios. It covers jam and jelly production from berries and plums, plus tips on stains mildew honey and fabric care, with reader questions answered by Anne Allan.
Canadian article notes 1942 as farmerette year with 1300 Ontario girls in farm service camps and plans to reach 2500 next year. Private camps expand to ease crowded facilities. 17 Southern Ontario camps plan improvements. Unemployment insurance for farmerettes via a camp fund helps during slow periods.
The writer explains rationing tea and coffee is easing with a new cereal drink substitute that tastes like coffee when hot. Harvest progress is steady despite weather and two prisoners at large add mild tension. A near encounter with a road skunk provides comic relief as they return home.
Britain grapples with wartime egg supply as one dozen dried eggs per person monthly becomes the norm. Backyard poultry must surrender shell-egg registrations by July 25 to secure Oct 1 feed reductions, forcing small producers to shrink flocks or swap eggs with neighbors, while officials prepare a guidance booklet on unresolved questions.
In Bournemouth England a cratered area near central pleasure gardens is being repurposed into toy boat ponds for children as part of a conversion project.
London workshops in Kentish Town have produced bagpipes for Scots Guards and other units for 28 years. The business has supplied 12 sets to Germany via the Red Cross, features ivory fittings worth £500, and uses African blackwood for drones and chanters.
Letter from Gun Layer Herb Dron aboard a convoy crossing the Atlantic during World War II describes a subs attack near sunset with depth charges and torpedoes. He notes Liverpool bombing, Lewis department store activity, DEMS gunners, and a close call with a destroyer escort before a safe, stormy voyage home.
A reader’s nocturnal struggles are described in a letter from H. V. Dron. He recounts a year of constant rocking and fatigue yet hopes to set well after receiving the message. He signs with resolve to try for better rest in the coming nights.
Rev. E. J. Martin rector of Stoke refused to allow The Merry Widow to be played at a wedding in his church. He said he had previously allowed swing tunes at a funeral but would not repeat the practice.
Frt. Lt. Denys Horner, 27, unable to sit for more than two hours due to a spine injury, is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Official remarks call him the most experienced and skillful pilot in his squadron.
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