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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
6
A jumble of recipes and guidance appears with sections on lemon days soups cakes and desserts. It includes lemon celery vector items and a variety of baking and marinating instructions plus notes on marinate times and serving ideas.
The article surveys wartime home front activity in New Zealand and Britain. It discusses women’s groups, nursing orders, and public service roles, plus civilian duties like scrap drives and bottle recycling, aiming to support soldiers and wartime needs.
A fragmented report notes British women involved in domestic labor and public life, highlighting factory and electrical work, community gatherings, and calls for peace. It mentions figures such as Ketlen and Pat and describes wartime labor, home front roles, and sewing or electrical tasks as part of daily efforts.
The account highlights Florence Nightingale as a symbol of bravery amid danger. A heroine recounts pulling a burning wallpaper laden bomb from a doorway, saving lives with bare hands as smoke filled a room. She notes crossing the Atlantic fifteen times and surviving shipwrecks and desert crossings, emphasizing courage and persistence in crisis.
A rider injured in a motorcycle collision received compensation and medical aid. The deformed leg incident led to amputations and a pension grant of 0 p.007 Sitilis, with connections to FORA LEG Hornsey and No England 1CP.
A garbled OCR passage lists numerous names and terms without clear context. It mentions figures like Lafond and Wilh and ends with a large number 346,000, leaving the exact event or agreement unspecified. The text reads as a jumble of names, places, and figures from a damaged page.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Washington and Higbee with debt related terms. Readable segments hint at a discussion of state or local finances involving named places and individuals, but the full meaning is unclear due to garbled wording.
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