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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 09, 1954
Page
18
Christmas is near and men’s accessories offer strong gift ideas. Cuff links tie bars stickpins and watches appeal, with new styles and budget options. Rings come in initial signet emblem and stone types for a practical, giftable selection.
A fragment recalling British soldiers who fought and perished with duty unshared by inquiry. It invokes a wartime ethos and notes the so called China of Ue j bight Brigade in a commemorative, non-graphic register.
The text critiques a historical narrative mixing jealousy and errors. It notes massed troops misdirected in Crimea, Ireland’s potato famine, and harsh landlords who withheld food during hunger and disease. It laments brutal landlord actions and calls the era stranger than fiction.
Homemade gifts capture the old fashioned season. The article suggests hand made napkins placemats aprons and small sewn items plus knitted socks sachets and tea towels. It also promotes jars of jams jellies cookies and candy as fond, thoughtful gifts.
A company afternoon featured demonstrations of meat preparation and soup making. Workers described cooking and dicing meat, threading through fine tubes, and final product shaping. Guests watched a moving picture about dish preparation and learned about the daily output of one million soup cans.
A DIY guide suggests making Christmas gifts from fir plywood to auxiliary Santa’s workshop. Projects include nursery thymes characters, wall cutouts, painted figures, plywood cradles, a red rocking chair, a rocking horse, a tie rack, a dog tail hinge rack, a flywheel barrow, a doll house or train, and a fir plywood cupboard or box to store toys.
Legends link holly to Christmas rites. Stories claim the crown of thorns came from holly, berries redden with blood after crucifixion, and bringing holly into the home first grants rule over the coming year to that household.
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