Mixed Berry Pie and Vintage Home Recipes Feature
A garbled home food column offers strawberry and rhubarb pie ideas with a sour cream strawberry pie variant. It includes Rhubarb and Strawberries recipe, fruit desserts, and a Nutri-Thrift menu with fishy expressions and bake times. The piece also highlights Frances James, CBC singer from New Brunswick, Toronto, on Curtain Memories with George Stewart.
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Sedan
Canada
Frances James
New Brunswick
Toronto
CBC
CBC Toronto
George Stewart
Homemaking Q and A from Acton Free Press
Mrs B M D suggests cleaning rope clotheslines with washboards and soap suds. Mrs D R asks how to wash black lace without fading, advising ammonia solution and cool rinse. Miss C Mec asks about substituting evaporated milk in milk sherbet. answer confirms equal parts water and evaporated milk.
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Anne Allan
Acton Free Press
Portable wireless distress transmitter aids lifeboats
British merchant ships required to carry a compact wireless distress device. Pressing a button broadcasts an SOS for two minutes over 200 miles with 60 repeats hourly, aiding rescuers by providing bearings. Weighing under 50 pounds, it floats if jettisoned and has Morse key for a wireless operator. Won £50 prize from the Royal Society of Arts council.
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S.O.S
Council of the Royal Society of Arts
London
Soldier son returns home in rain soaked reunions
The narrative recalls a son on sick leave arriving by car after walking in a downpour from Bronte. He had just left a Montreal hospital with mumps, traveled on the Flyer to Toronto, hitchhiked to Milton, and joined family after a longer absence. The weekend included a quilting gathering and updated farm life amid continuing rain and crop concerns.
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Montreal
Wen
Partner
Toronto
Bronte
Milton
Bob
Palermo
Taranto
Omer
Cheering Words For the Sowers In Wet Ontario
Ontario agriculture officials advise farmers on sowing in record wet conditions. John D. MacLeod of the crops branch says early maturing varieties of oats buckwheat and millet can still be sown on well prepared seedbeds to achieve fair yields though heavy moisture remains. Buckwheat can be sown until early July and serves as a weed mother crop and livestock feed.
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Toronto
Ontario
John D. Mcleod
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Macleod
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Simcoe
Victorian
York
Calferin
Agriculture Department
Cartier
Alaska
Ajax
Mabel
Bishop Pollard Leads Home Guard Recruitment in Lancaster
Rt Rev. Benjamin Pollard Bishop of Lancaster advances a Home Guard recruiting drive from pulpit and public platform. He serves as a lieutenant in the local Home Guard and practices what he preaches.
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Lancaster, Eng
Benjamin Pollard
Lancaster
Home Guard
One Hundred Films For Russia
Britain sends hundreds of film reels to the Soviet Union to bolster wartime morale and propaganda. In two months 64 news reels and 20 shorts have shipped, with 24 more planned, totaling over 100 films for 1942. Subjects include factory production, convoy ships, armed forces training, and two city films built from London Can Take It and Target for Tonight.
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Russia
Britain
London
Moscow
AHS
Armen
Doondon
Lenin
Debates on conscription shape Ottawa week noted
In Commons the government faces possible opposition as debate on conscription extends. Liberal Cardin predicts 50 Liberals may back the amendment while Agriculture Minister Gardiner argues overseas service needs no immediate conscription.
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Commons
P. J. A. Cardin
Transport and Public Works
Agriculture
Gardiner
Clouse of Commons
Canada
TC. Douging
C.C.F
Weyburn
KHL
New Democracy
Blackmore
House
Hanson
Inglat
Quebec
King
Cardin
Chiat Chere
Tstey
Isley
Islends
Aleutians
Apanese Tardoon Deatete
Alaska
Oak cut at Burnham Thorpe honors Nelson plaque
A wooden oak cut from Lord Nelson’s birthplace Burnham Thorpe was used to feed a plaque installed by residents of Decking Norfolk in a Swater torpedo boat of the Royal Navy. The Packing for adopted the boat.
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Londen
Burnham Thorpe
Lord Nelson
Decking
Norfolk
Royal Navy
Village Halls Association to Preserve Local Histories
The Association of Lunes Village Halls proposes a scheme for each village to maintain pictorial and written histories. Tawes EF sh and cCP Sussexvale Ages will begin keeping “Domes day Books” of the town under this program.
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Sussexvale
Association of
Lunes
Food Ministry Cuts Tea Allowance for Office Workers
The Food Ministry reduces tea allowance to one pound per week for office workers across Brattam, cutting the previous provision in half. The reduction does not extend to industrial workers.
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sLondon Ah CV Food Ministry
Brattam
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Atrawberrieh
Private Hogan
Ginger Farm
Gwendoline P. Glarke
Peto
Ang
Ric
Duke of Windsor
Ottawa
ROW Francis
Canadian Press
Sigff
Ander
Stuart
Iat
Plana
Alexander
T. V. Anderson
Arthur Slaght
Parry Sound
Tialifax
Esquimalt
B.C
Pride Board
Nelson
Ceylon
India
Salada’ Tea Company OF Canada, Limited
Freddie
Ut Bay War Savings
National War Finance
England
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