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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 29, 1940
Page
6
Betty Barclay presents dessert ideas and new kitchen hints for home cooks. Orange Icebox Cake layers whipped cream with orange pieces and marshmallows in ladyfinger crust, chilled overnight. Swedish Crisp Cookies mix butter sugar eggs and spices then bake quickly in a hot oven.
Cut rabbit into pieces and pack in crock with vinegar salt pickling spices pepper and onion for 24 hours. Boil drained rabbit until tender, brown flour and butter, add water to form gravy, mix with rabbit and broth, then simmer with cinnamon allspice and onion for one hour.
Trim fat from thick chops and dip in melted butter. Broil chops 8 minutes then turn. Place a thick slice of peeled orange on each chop and broil 8 to 10 minutes longer. Sprinkle generously with salt pepper and paprika and serve hot.
Prepare vanilla pudding as directed. Fold whipped cream and shredded coconut into the chilled pudding. Spoon into baked tart shells and top with remaining toasted coconut.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board reports investigations into distribution and sale of about forty items in the first four months of its operations. Sugar, wool, textiles, butter, leather, fuel, beans, flour, oil and other goods were examined with involvement from the RCMP and Weights and Measures Service to address profiteering and ensure fair prices. prosecutions require board authorization.
Hints on fashions celebrate rainwear that is stylish and usable. A DOW raincoat in eggshell taffeta is waterproofed with a separate hood and a belt of black patent leather. Large flap pockets attach to the belt to hold essentials. the hood is taffeta lined with a blousy back and inverted pleat.
Aenn Chronicles notes Rusty barking at an unusual sight a horse and cutter on the road then describes a quilting bee and a Toronto trip to see Gone with the Wind at Loews theatre. The writer praises Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh while contrasting war images with Canada and the Empire.
A dawn paragraph notes a milk deliverer facing a grey world yet keeps moving. The brief portraits the routine routine of delivering milk as a steady daily task amid gloom.
A Sunday School lesson recalls Jesus in the upper room with disciples for the Passover, Judas betrayal, and the institution of the Lord's Supper. It discusses Jesus foreknowledge, the meaning of this bread and wine, and the covenant through Jesus blood.
Canada exported raw furs worth 12,653,355 dollars in the year to June 30 1938 with London and New York as principal markets. United Kingdom shipments totaled 8,363,694 dollars and the United States 3,610,520 dollars. Montreal Winnipeg Edmonton and Vancouver hosted 1938 auction sales where 1,438,101 pelts valued at 4,992,956 dollars were sold.
A police officer questioned a woman found beneath a car after an accident. The exchange appeared tense as he asked if she was injured and pressed for a clear answer amid the unfolding incident.
Rev. Geo V. Webber, General Secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada, urges safeguarding the weekly day of rest and worship amid wartime. He warns against Sunday theatre openings and commercialized sport to aid war efforts, and notes protests over Sunday advertising by newspapers and CBC.
About six hundred elk or wapiti spend winter in Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada, part of the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. Each autumn they cross the international boundary, a gesture of goodwill that helped found the peace park, with the northward migration reversing typical seasonal patterns.
A garbled excerpt lists multiple biblical citations across testaments and letters, referencing sins redemption and exodus imagery. The readable parts mix Matthew Romans Ephesians Hebrews Colossians Corinthians Revelation and numbers, but lacks coherent narrative.
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