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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
7
Easy budget friendly dishes using leftover chicken with quick cooking tapioca to create creamy gravy biscuit pot pie and a peppermint tapioca cream dessert. Also includes a five minute fondant and uncooked candy ideas for children with no cooking required.
A fashion sketch showcases an oyster white satin evening dress. The straight front shirt features a flared back insert, a simple embroidered bodice with straps, and a tight jacket with a petal collar. Gold and silver leaf embroidery decorates the jacket and collar.
Dominion Forest Service reports Canada grows six million Christmas trees annually with potential to sustain production on under two hundred square miles. Growing demand in U S markets includes New York City Boston Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit Chicago and Pacific coast cities. Trade valued near $450 000 in 1938, with expansion over the past decade. Farmers increasingly plant managed plantations and one Ontario farmer earns about $4 000 yearly from trees for Detroit and Buffalo markets. The industry supports employment and promotes forestry practices.
A reader reflects on time passing toward Christmas in wartime Canada. She lists preparations like cake and pudding, questions if they should be made when others go without, and recalls a humorous city scene. The note also discusses potential local flying field plans and wartime disruptions to business and transport.
Completion of the last beam station at Scondouc New Brunswick ties into Trans-Canada Airways eastern extension to Moncton. Construction continues on a new airport hangar and admin buildings for Moncton to support Trans-Canada Air Lines. Service is expected between Montreal and Moncton before year end.
The Workmen's Compensation Board logged 6 195 accidents in November up from 5 241 in October and 5 283 in November last year. Benefits awarded totaled 7111 18 with 452 90 for compensation and 102 58 28 for medical aid. To date this year 55 382 accidents recorded versus 55 374 last year and total benefits 5 571 062 61, against 5 859 306 31 to end of November last year.
The speaker notes news on radio about German planes over Suffolk in England. They compare life in Canada favorably and mention having few near relatives in Suffolk, with relatives moved elsewhere, reflecting wartime sentiment and evacuation concerns.
A. H. Williams of Canadian National Railways says well planned apprenticeship training ensures replacement of skilled craftsmen across shops and yards. The program accepts limited new apprentices each year to cover normal payroll turnover and CN Railways encourages graduates to become professional engineers.
The Queen toured three military clothing factories employing over 4,590 workers, mostly women, and showed interest in a bride-to-be among the workers. Officials noted peacetime to wartime production gains with Army coats, shirts, and boots now produced much faster, aided by mass production machinery and updated patterns.
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