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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
3
A guide for busy mothers on child health and quick snacks. Recipes include Chocolate Crisplea and peanut confections using condensed milk. Also notes a rhumba party menu with Cuban dishes arroz con pollo and decaffeinated coffee for guests.
Hugh Whitney Morrison directs CBC Talks and hosts We Have Been There. The text shifts to recipes for a Cuban coffee beverage and a decaffeinated coffee tapioca dessert, including steps, ingredients, and serving suggestions. It also mentions a lemon fruit filling for spice cake and serving ideas.
The poem by Gwendoline P. Clarke-Christman sends Christmas wishes to mothers fathers teachers and children. It honors those grieving in wartime with lines about Tom at sea and air force boys while urging perseverance, charity, and prayer for peace on earth and goodwill throughout the year.
Americans will soon be able to purchase in the United States items made from Portland stone salvaged after intense heat. Debris from shattered London buildings is transformed into lamp stands ink wells cigarette trays clocks and bird baths designed by Royal Institute of British Sculptors fellows and master masons. Each piece comes with a certificate of genuineness detailing the original building and a photo volume of the blitzed city. Proceeds benefit the RAF Benevolent Fund with a bull dog medallion and ARP or AFS insignia featured on the stone.
A humorous piece notes a typographical slip on the press that escapes the eye yet dominates the issue. The boss reacts with horror while the copyholder laments the single visible error. The rest of the edition remains clean.
Bruce Pearce in the Himoce Reformer notes Donald Gordon of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board urges housewives to track prices, avoid excess packaging, and shop prudently to keep store prices within the basic period. He explains price variation by store and cautions against inflation in war economies.
The poem recalls bells on Christmas Day and familiar carols with lines declaring peace on earth and good will to men. It contrasts despair with a refrain that God is awake and right will prevail.
The fragment recalls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s lines about peace on earth and goodwill toward men as the world moves from night to day with a ringing song on its way.
The Canadian dairy sector launches a drive to salvage discarded milk and cream cans for repair or tinning. Steel is crucial to wartime needs, and can manufacturers face supply difficulties. Producers are urged to bring surplus cans to their local creamery or cheese factory for processing.
A WWII era note explains rubber dinghies supplied by UK manufacturers of corsets stockings and more. The dinghies fit packs of 18 by 3 inches and aid air crews in cold immersion, with paddles flares and emergency rations from chocolate makers.
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