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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 11, 1940
Page
6
A collection of era style recipes detailing Apple Cottage Pudding and Steamed Apple Pudding with apples, butter, sugar, flour and baking powder. Includes TAffy Apples with cider vinegar syrup and color, plus notes on mixing, baking and steaming times.
A combined blouse and skirt dress is shown as a practical winter outfit. The skirt features three inside tucks creating a flared center front, while the blouse displays two upstanding folds outlining a peplum. Brown velvet is highlighted for this ensemble.
Home-made candies remain popular in winter with recipes for Chocolate Fudge and variations such as Chocolate Nut Fudge Coconut Fudge and Marshmallow Fudge. The article includes supper dish ideas like Pea and Salmon Pie and Cod Cheese Bake with steps, ingredients, and cooking tips.
A Ginger Farm diary details severe winter shortages, water fears as wells fail, and livestock illnesses. The writer laments fuel and water costs while noting a cow’s recovery and an appeal for simpler times in a 1902 novel rereading.
Sir Thomas Holland, at Edinburgh University, warned a graduation audience that six years of neglect in German research has shrunk output and degraded quality. He predicted degeneration in military efficiency and warned it would take years to rebuild Germany’s once-dominant academic structure.
The Department of Mines and Resources reports about 2600 ring-billed gulls nesting along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Gulls arrive end of May and leave by end of August in six main colonies, with migratory patterns reaching as far as Florida by December. Cooperation with authorities and private citizens has helped their numbers.
Northwest Territories ore samples may be assayed free under a Quartz Mining Regulations amendment. Licensees recording a mineral claim receive two free assay coupons, plus two more on each year's representation work. Samples sent with coupons are tested at no charge for specified metals. Results cannot be used for advertising.
Canada's hydro electric industry grew in 1939 with new plants totaling 8 289 212 horsepower end of year capacity. Major additions included Consolidated Mining and Smelting at Well ington Lake Saskatchewan 3 300 hp Berens River Mines Northern Ontario 2 000 hp Ontario Paper Black River Northern Ontario 1 500 hp Gananoque Electric Cataraqui River Ontario 999 hp La Serre Power Quebec 700 hp Town of Bridgewater Petite Nova Scotia 600 hp Nova Scotia Power Barrie Brook Nova Scotia 500 hp. Transmission and distribution expansions paralleled capacity gains and demand rose across domestic, mining, pulp and paper sectors. Despite war times not yet boosting loads, the industry remains well positioned to meet growing power needs.
In a tense exchange after a streetcar crash, the motorman jokes he could not have kept his job if the victim had died, while the victim responds that he would have lost his own position. The banter emphasizes the narrow line between luck and duty in transit work.
The record mentions Lieutenant J. B. as commander of Canadian Forces in England during wartime, with reference to Expeditionary Forces and a figure tied to Tweedanutr, son of a lord. The fragmented text lacks full context or dates.
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