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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
3
This note offers affordable substitutes to butter and fat for energy and disease resistance, with recipes for a beef and dumpling stew, veal croquettes, cornmeal apple cake, pudding sauce, and doughnut batter. It emphasizes using alternative fats and simple ingredients to feed hardworking households.
A first person tale recounts a trip to town halted by an unexpected snowplow. The party battles deep drifts, near-collisions, and a stalled road, noting snow fences and winter’s reach. The narrator jokes about squaw winter and awaits warmth.
An American nervo soldier confronts a German corporal in a deadly exchange. The negro draws a razor and makes a mighty swipe at the foe’s throat while the German gleefully taunts him. The dialogue highlights fear and bravado as both sides threaten each other.
Dominion researchers report a new sawfly resistant wheat variety with promising milling and baking qualities. Development at Swift Current and plans to multiply seed in California and Canada aim to reduce losses from wheat stem sawfly, with potential prevention of heavy damage in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
In eight recent log-sawing contests at Blind River Ontario, Harvey Taréiff and Pierre Racine of St. Hyacinthe earned top honors with a strong performance. They sawed an 18 inch log in 26 seconds.
In LACOMBE ALTA residents celebrate a tax levy collection reaching a high percentage as a local note. The article interprets Jesus Beatitudes stressing humility sorrow meekness purity and peacemaking as guiding standards for followers. It links the sermon to practical living and enduring persecution with God’s blessing.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ogden Shops in Calgary near the Rockies prepare to produce the fifth naval gun mount type. The facility allies with British, Canadian and American sea services for war needs, after clearing locomotive repairs and extended heavy work to Winnipeg and Montreal.
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