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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 15, 1940
Page
6
The column promotes an orange sponge cake as a star recipe for cake days with cool weather. It provides detailed directions for making an orange sponge cake and orange custard filling, including ingredients and steps, and invites readers to share better cake recipes.
The advance models of spring reveal the suit as popular. The softly tailored suit features novel designs with black wool paired to royal blue for the plastron on a softly fitted jacket. A low square neck shows black draped silk jeersay and a tight gored skirt has defined fullness. A bright blue felt hat trimmed with navy satin ribbon completes the look.
Citizens across Canada are asked to contribute to The Canadian Legion War Services fund seeking 500000 dollars. The organization supports education for servicemen, morale programs, and guidance during war, with aims to help veterans resume civilian life after the war and promote democracy.
In Acton a young man enters a publisher’s office with a small roll of paper asking to publish and sing his song. The publisher cautions the youth, “I’m a publisher not a magistrate,” and the moment ends with a humorous exchange. The piece then muses on Lord Tweedsmuir’s death and public life, plus small local happenings at Ginger Farm including Partner taking up knitting.
A vicar greets a crowd saying he is glad to see many new faces this evening and expresses a wish to shake hands with them after the meeting.
A High River luncheon features a quip by the Duke of Windsor about farmers and agriculturists. The narrator recalls felling a century-old elm with two experts and his added weight, illustrating that a little extra help from cooperation can achieve what skilled labor alone cannot.
A newspaper piece notes the lure of stepping back to 1880 with its Victorian parlor and slower life, yet argues progress brings automobiles phones radios electric lights and modern comforts. It contrasts lower wages and stricter conditions for workers with gains in freedom and sociopolitical debate, ending that the parlor was dull but not boring.
Dominion figures show Saskatchewan at 28.8 tuberculosis deaths per 100 000 in 1938 versus Canada 54.6. The gap suggests a national objective to reach Saskatchewan’s level, with some cities reporting as low as 15 deaths per 100 000 and progress since a century ago.
Admirers gather in a crowded hall to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Canada’s oldest living poet. The guest of honor reads selections from his works as the audience strains to hear over passing street traffic. A younger poet, Mr Blank, quietly reads his own latest publication The Printed Word, revealing context for the event.
War effort on the home front shows a massive rise in production across guns and grain metal meat and machinery agriculture and aircraft. Aerial view features three young airmen studying a reconnaissance map and Major General McNaughton with Lieut Colonel Lee as workers mobilize in blast furnaces and forges to support the war through industrial output.
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