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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
7
Betty Barclay presents sought after Lima bean ideas not from her own kitchen but from famous food editors and institutes. The guide promotes canned or dried Limas with health angles and provides several practical preparations including baked bean blends with tomato sauce and a potato parlor of optional flavors.
Britain expects a record 1939 sugar crop of 500000 tons from home beet, enabling 66 cargo steamers to be freed for essential imports. Crude molasses from beets saves space for 40 ships, boosting cattle feed and reducing subsidies. Beets cover nearly 350000 acres. gov price support aims for another big yield in 1940. Beet tops supply fodder for sheep and can be silaged.
A fragmented query describes a precocious sister seeking information about feeding tadpoles to a baby. It hints at a curious experiment and includes garbled dialogue about risk or harm, with unclear speaker names and context.
The narration describes spring wardrobe notes focusing on taffeta gowns. A mauve dress with black dots features a waist seam and a black suede belt. It has a tiny white silk collar with printed binding and a circular skirt with front and back center seams.
Anglers enjoyed keen sport in Banff National Park last summer with many limit catches. A guide reports parties caught almost 800 fish in waters easily reached from Banff. Restocking and fish culture by the Canadian Department of Resources sustain high quality sport with seasonal licenses available at park headquarters.
An exchange in a railway compartment reveals an affable Latvian traveler and a quiet stranger who claim familiarity. The traveler notes a fourteen year prison sentence and reports discharge this morning.
Wartime diary notes describe Institute tea and display with sixty guests, a large charity sewing effort including quilts clothing and accessories, and ongoing war work. Partner renames their cat General MacNaughton reflecting political upheaval, daily routines, weather chatter, and a final mention of selling the last of the chickens with mixed feelings about the steady orders.
Major J R Thomson heads Toronto personal services bureau aiding enlisted men with 600 confidential files. The unit handles debt settlements, family reconciliation, pension guidance, and document recovery, with free assistance across Canada and England. Colonel Macintyre emphasizes morale, rehabilitation, and non profit support for veterans amid wartime strain.
Britain must prioritize exports to shorten the war says R. Hudson Minister for Overseas Trade. He argues saving home goods for export supports war finance and asks civilians to forgo nonessential purchases. Col. Macintyre seeks February 12 appeal of 500000 for Canadian Legion War Services to aid armed forces and returning men.
Retailers in several centres face a copper and small coin shortage as U S silver and copper coins circulate in Canada. The mint will replenish coins, while Foreign Exchange Control Board measures push repatriation. Merchants in Kingston use stamps, a Guelph bakery offers buns as change, a tobacco firm uses one cent match boxes, and some firms price in whole cents to avoid copper change.
A brief dialogue shows Bashful praising the good and beautiful while Stella expects father consent. A character asks about buying an automobile on the instalment plan amid a claim that 16,000,000 people can’t be wrong.
A jailhouse scene shows Convict No. 13 asking the librarian for The Life Story of Houdini while a mother sings with false feeling and Crusty Old Fellow scolds. The dialogue hints at dry humor and tension in a confined setting.
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