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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
3
A home cook guide offers do’s and don’ts for fresh vegetables, efficiency tips, and recipes for a celery sauce, French onions, Turnips with cheese, and devilled corn. The column also answers reader questions on soda with beans and pastry making, inviting letters to Anne Allan.
Twenty five years after the spring offensive began, Canadian Corps in the Arras-Vimy sector faced a German bombardment and land raids. In early March 1919 they repelled attacks at Lens and Mericourt, raided enemy trenches, and expanded defensive works including trench railways and water supply. The 3rd Battalion and Canadian Mounted Rifles led counterattacks and raids, taking prisoners and inflicting German losses while crossing No Man's Land under fire.
The Indiana city known as home to Notre Dame and a major manufacturing plant arose from the St. Joseph River bend. It became a fur trade post by 1820 and a townsite in 1831, deriving its name from the river bend where the St. Joseph turns north toward Lake Michigan. It sits on the Chicago Toronto Montreal route of the Canadian National and lies about 100 miles east of Chicago. The area was explored by Canadians and visited by Miami Indians during early history.
On November 20 1942 Clarke owner of Citizen's Dairy Belleville appeared before the Police Magistrate and pleaded guilty to possessing for sale butter with over 16 percent water and under 80 percent fat. A fine of 10 dollars plus 12 75 dollars costs was imposed and paid. The charge was laid by a Dairy Products Division officer of the Dominion Department of Agriculture Ottawa.
The writer recalls a Sunday on Ginger Farm amid a severe storm. Partner clears snow from house to barn, digs out the troughs and gates, feeds hens, milks, and hauls milk to the road. Chores extend to nursing baby chicks amid zero temperatures and strong winds, with extra effort needed to keep stock safe and warm.
Sweden tests radio mobilization of conscripts for the first time. The armed forces command orders certain classes to report to their designated war stations.
FR Johnson shares musings on classic songs, Collins Foster heritage, and wartime life. He quotes Lt Col Horace Hartley of Engelhart, notes inflation and rationing conditions in Europe and Canada, and urges conservation and farm labor caution amid shortages and draft impacts.
The document outlines an eight million head hog slaughtering objective for 1943, up from sixty four million in 1942, with about two thirds in Western Canada and one third in Eastern Canada. Eastern provinces aim roughly 22 percent higher, Western prairie provinces about 33 percent, led by Saskatchewan.
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