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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1942
Page
3
Anne Allan guides homemakers to plan Christmas baking with wartime ingredients. She notes abundant Canadian vegetables and flour, suggests quick breads with shortening, and offers multiple recipe fragments for cakes muffins and puddings.
The piece profiles John Crosbie a 31 year old Montreal native who has spent seven years in the Maritimes. It notes his varied work in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, running an advertising agency, military service, and his current role hosting CBC maritime newscasts. The humor piece places him as mayor of Upper Upsal Gull and includes quirky domestic tips and reader Q A from Anne Allan on homemaking questions.
Do minion Department of Agriculture officials predict heavy demand for turkeys during the Christmas season. Rearing tips emphasize free range then partial confinement, moist mash feeds, and soaked ground grains to improve fattening efficiency.
Domina Daoust & Fils of St Louis appeared before a Montreal magistrate and pleaded guilty to a Dairy Industry Act regulation violation. A fine of 50 dollars plus costs was imposed and paid for mislabeling 56 16 boxes of creamery butter as First Grade when it was Second Grade. The charge was by a Dominion Agriculture officer, Ottawa. Belfast Britain asks Northern Ireland farmers to grow 100000 acres of flax next year to meet wartime linen demand.
The writer tests pen size hard coal in a cookstove and Quebec heater with mixed results. It cools the room but later burns steadily. Breadmaking experiments use Vitamin B flour and soy bean meal. A Toronto trip includes the Curiosity Shop visit and an TTC incident prompts a joke about patience.
Twenty five years ago in the First Great War Italy, backed by 150000 British and French troops, halted the Austro German drive along the Piave after Caporetto. The Caporetto defeat led to Cadorna's replacement by Diaz and the creation of the Supreme Allied Council at Rapallo.
The Bank of Montreal posts a record 1.175 billion in assets and deposits surpassing the dollar mark for the first time in its 125 year history. After taxes, profit stands at 3.283 million on a 4.31 percent return, with dividends reduced and government taxes rising to 2.53 million.
A page notes the Milltreal ticket office on St James Street near Dollard. a memorial tablet honors des Orme AUS who in 1660 led a small band to repulse invaders, inspiring a sturdy former colony town. The building, 1840s origin with later wartime metal salvage, reflects local history and wartime efforts.
In spring, the Comd dine emerged as enemy advances faltered under unity of command at Sermon headquarters. Allied action on the Western Front operated under Gen Foch with a coordinated April decision.
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