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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1943
Page
3
The piece offers nostalgic holiday cheer with a call to light candles and share love and laughter. It blends a festive mood with practical recipes for cranberry relish, vegetable turkey rolls, gelatine molds, peach flake meringue, and assorted desserts, plus tips for serving and menus for guests.
Nine girls and eleven boys totaling twenty delegates journeyed from Ontario to Chicago for the 4H Club Congress. Canada was represented by Quebec’s first girl delegate. chaperone was Ms Lilly Petty of Brant County. Delegates toured Field Museum, Navy training, and Chicago landmarks, attending services at First Methodist Church and a large 4H banquet with notable performers.
December 15 1943 rationing schedule lists Coffer Tea Sugar Butter Meat Preserves coupons now valid with varying expiry dates. Coffer tealots allow 8 ounces coffee or 2 ounces tea. Sugar and Canning sugar coupons expire by December 31. Butter coupons cover 0.5 pound units with several expiry dates. Meat coupons grant 1 to 2.5 pounds per pair across several dates. Preserves notes D1 and D9 valid for preserves or spreads.
London reports show CWAC kitchen life with Pte Helena Mattahall and Pte Dorothy Gautier praising meals and a vegetable peeling machine, while rations officers push for a balanced diet as cooks adapt to English supplies and dehydrated meats. Britain records a record harvest with 1,000,000 tons more cereals and 250,000 tons more potatoes than last year.
A Ginger Farm diary reflects on mood during war time, noting Churchill's illness and family reunions, then describes a candlelit church service that rekindles Christmas spirit. The writer finds solace in the Nativity story and hopes for a hopeful holiday despite ongoing conflict.
A collage of jokes and quips features mismatched banter from Schmaltz and others, a sailor’s misadventures, a bank visit for a charge account, drill sergeants testing recruits, and comical misunderstandings about love, sleep, and Grecian urns.
Speculators push Britain’s cattle trade higher paying record sums for pedigree cattle sheep and pigs. Recent sales include a Guernsey bull worth about 15000 dollars and five Friesian cattle above 10000 dollars each as markets anticipate Europe’s need to be fed.
A reconnaissance photo from August 17 1943 shows the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg severely damaged by U S 8th Air Force bombers. The image captures wrecked factory buildings and nearby hospital structures undamaged, highlighting the factory as a major Luftwaffe fighter producer amid air war.
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