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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
27
A vintage food column presents holiday recipes and cooking instructions with wartime sensibilities. It includes cranberry stuffing, sausage and bread stuffing guidance, beet salad, hot water pastry, frozen pumpkin rum pudding, toffees, and a question box with devilled sprouts and red cabbage pickle.
A reflective piece urges maintaining Christmas traditions at home despite war. It highlights the value of a familiar tree and decorations to comfort families, notes global hardship from France to Canada, and ends with a benediction to keep Christmas in the heart and home.
A historical overview notes Canada's rapid 1939 to 1943 shipyard expansion with 75,000 workers in 25 major and 63 smaller yards. It cites 321 of 400 cargo orders delivered, including 90 ten thousand tonners, some sold to the U.S. Maritime Commission, plus mutual aid hulls. Canadian merchant seamen rose to 150 ships, and a sample ten thousand tonner carries large wartime loads and equipment.
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes that cigarette ash itself is not toxic when swallowed in small amounts. It warns that incompletely burned tobacco near the ash may contain higher levels of tobacco alkaloids that could irritate if ingested with contaminated material.
A discussion on the growing power of women in spending and politics. It argues women control most family expenditures, influence financial policy, and increasingly engage in political questions, with higher moral standards and a push toward good government and fair business practices.
Plans by the Commission for Palestine Surveys at Dr. Welzmann's request outline a 4 9200 000 000 Jordan Valley Authority style project. The proposal envisions Jordan River diversions, runoff use, and hydro power to modernize agriculture and industry, resettle Arabs, and offset Dead Sea loss while replenishing sea water.
Excerpts from European press quoted by Reuters discuss the idea that shortening the German front could ease supply lines and reduce wear on locomotives engines and rolling stock. Analysts cite German military papers as suggesting both potential advantages and the impact on battlefield mobility.
A Swiss custom ties cheese to a child's life with a found cheese named after the child stored away. At marriage, the cheese is presented with the partner's bow at the font and eaten to bring luck. Leftover cheese is preserved in separate receptacles and later shared by mourners.
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