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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1944
Page
3
A Mrs editors note shares festive baking tips and recipes aimed at homemakers and families. It lists clove orange cookies smart cookies fruit bars yule fruit bars and several dough and cookie variations with guidance on mixing rolling chilling baking times and oven temperatures. It emphasizes practical steps for baking and holiday treats for children and shoppers.
The writer and Partner relocate to the large south room at Ginger Farm Ontario, moving from the north end to escape cold and heat, while juggling furniture, a piano, a sewing machine, and storage chairs. The threshing machine returns to the barn, adding two extra workers for supper and signaling the end of another year’s harvest.
A string of light anecdotes from a classroom and sidewalks: a doctor asked to share blame at the last minute, a pupil calls a widower “careless,” a joke about milestones on a skyscraper, and a driver insisting taxpayers pay him. An English teacher tests grammar with island lore, gravitation basics, and wordplay.
British RAF aircraft, including Wallis designed bombs, finally destroyed the Nazi battleship Tirpitz in Tromso Fjord on November 12 after a three year hunt. Thirty-two planes took part, with 29 attacking and seven prior attempts noted. The loss of the ship ends a key threat to Allied naval forces and secures the region’s sea lanes for Britain.
Business readers are advised that advertising need not be clever to succeed. Focus on informing the public about desirable goods and present them as you would to a customer, highlighting special bargains and current prices to attract buyers.
The text argues Canada must focus half its industrial output on war supplies, warning civilian goods shortages rise if higher prices are paid. It claims such inflation would disrupt war material flow to the fronts and jeopardize military efforts.
Winter control of horse bot flies by cooperative action before December 15 can greatly reduce next year's bot fly numbers. Three species, nose, throat, and stomach bots, inhabit horses. treatment requires a qualified veterinarian and gelatin capsules of carbon bisulphide to expel bots from the stomach. A 1 1/4 percent dose per 250 pounds body weight is advised. starvation before and after treatment aids effectiveness.
The passage argues that German soldiers were weakened by diet and disease, unlike Canadians, and that Nazi expansion failed because conquered nations could not supply all they needed. A lesson is drawn on nations depending on themselves instead of grabbing neighbors' resources.
A cautious note warns that rapid recovery after the war could fuel unchecked spending and a speculative boom. The speaker cautions against overspending, keeping funds for possible unemployment and warning that inflated security prices risk a future crash.
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