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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
8
Cookbook style column presents wartime Christmas wishes and numerous recipes. Includes cranberry sauce, sausage stuffing, roasted fowl guidance, beet salad, hot water pastry, frozen pudding, toffee sauce, and reader questions with Brussels sprouts and red cabbage pickle recipes. Contains household tips and step-by-step cooking instructions.
A reflective note from Glendoline P. Clarke urging families to preserve Christmas traditions at home. The piece emphasizes lasting memories through a shared tree, star, and humble celebrations, even amid war abroad. It closes with a wartime greeting from Clarke and a quote from Frank Lloyd about self-improvement.
Canada’s wartime shipbuilding surge saw 75 000 workers in 1943 across 25 major and 63 smaller yards. Of 400 cargo ships ordered, 321 were delivered including 255 ten thousand tonners. 90 of these were sold to the United States Maritime Commission. Canadian merchant seamen expanded crews from 37 to 150 ships, and a single ten thousand tonner could carry vast loads including 250 tons of food, 2 100 tons of steel, 1 900 feet of bombs, lumber for 99 wattages, aluminum for 310 bombers, and two complete bombers stowed aboard.
A JAMA summary notes inhaled tobacco ash can carry arsenic carbon and minerals but the tobacco itself is not harmful in small amounts when ingested. It cautions that incompletely burned tobacco residue may contain alkaloids and advises avoiding contamination of food by ash from the cigarette.
The influence of women grows in spending power politics and morality. The piece asserts women control about 85 percent of family spending and argue they push toward sound finance and good governance. It notes increased political interest since suffrage and higher moral standards among women.
A 200 million plan by the Commission of Palestine Surveys seeks to divert Jordan waters for a multi purpose irrigation and hydro electric project. Walter sthowdermin and Chaim Welzmann support a Jordan Valley Authority style program to reclaim land, boost agriculture and industry, deliver runoff and groundwater a, and replenish the Dead Sea while supplying power. The scheme targets settlement growth and regional development as a Near East model.
Reporters in EC's Europe service note cautious German predictions about war progress. A German army newspaper claims shortening the front aids artillery mobility and reduces wear on locomotives and engines, while other outlets discuss the potential path to victory and improved logistics.
The article describes a Swiss custom where a cheese linked to a child is kept from birth, named after the child, and then presented at the marriage font with the partner’s bread. Guests share a piece for luck and the remaining cheese is saved for funerals, distributed by named local custodians.
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