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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
3
A long-winded home economics note offers New Year party ideas and recipes. It lists cookies fruit punch frosting and cake ideas with step by step directions and tips for determining candy stages. It includes dessert suggestions and a few household hints from readers Mrs J E and others.
A narrator recalls a young patient’s calm face as a seamstress mother corrects stitches. The child expresses gratitude for a smooth start and longs for a future beyond the stars as a New Year dawns.
A collection from 1923 notes a forecast of open winter despite thus far mild weather. Local items include turkeys selling at 20c per pound at Kincardine and a school music supervisor appointee Mrs Minnie R Moore. Obituaries list Elizabeth Cunningham Bingham in Sault Ste Marie and Ann Overton Ebbage in Toronto.
The article traces cheese factory origins to Herkimer County New York, noting Harvey Farrington's 1863 move to Ontario to start Canada's first factory in Norwich Township. It covers subsequent Ontario openings, Brockville area activity, Quebec creamery beginnings, and the later Manitoba Shoal Lake development, with creamery origins in Huntingdon County in 1873.
London reports abundant pigeon meat in winter menus as farmers stage large scale shooting drives to protect crops amid rising pigeon populations. Restaurants offer diverse dishes while officials weigh long term control methods.
A wartime kitchen note provides a doughnut recipe using shortening sugar milk eggs baking powder salt nutmeg flour and lemon extract. Instructions describe beating until foamy, folding in dry ingredients, adding milk, forming a soft dough, rolling to three quarters inch, and frying at 360 to 375 degrees then draining on unglazed paper.
Sunday School lesson outlines Jesus baptism by John and temptation in the wilderness, then calls Simon Peter Andrew James and John to become fishers of men. It emphasizes obedience, repentance, and Jesus teaching authority with divine approval.
A family letter from Canada recalls a quiet Christmas with returning relatives, Boxing Day traditions, and hopes for postwar peace. The writer notes a photo gift, wartime U predictions, and plans to feed the chickens before tackling larger tasks. Also cited is New Delhi reporting on 10 000 motor vehicles converted to producer gas saving over 16 million gallons of gasoline for essential war purposes.
Weekly editor reviews Ottawa items from rail station loudspeakers to the Women’s Active Service Club canteen serving 320. It notes a bookstore raffle, Cab Calloway, thefts, Victory Loan subscriptions, price controls, farm production plans, Canadian Legion courses, an upcoming airmail service, and mutual aid with Allied nations as Canada intensifies war mobilization.
A rambling collection of old jokes and musings about charging for glasses and miscommunications. It recalls a Mark Twain dinner moment and a Vermont farm shopper, ending with wartime lend-lease figures for Britain and Allies.
The text argues that a God sent messenger bears a divine message and has authority above Moses. It cites biblical verses including Matthew Luke John and Hebrews to claim Jesus spoke with God given authority and that believers should teach as the oracles of God.
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