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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
3
A vintage guide to storing leftovers and repurposing them into meals and treats. It covers safe storage in the refrigerator, using leftover liquids to flavor soups and sauces, turning vegetables into turnovers, and quick recipes for bacon muffins sardine croquettes lemon pudding and rice desserts. It also offers household laundering tips for treasured linens and lace with powder and towels.
A reflective diary entry recounts weeks of war letters from Belgium and daily domestic details. It covers snow removal, milk deliveries, road work, a theater visit, and neighborly quarrels, with snippets of wartime news and local observations.
Dr W Sherwood Fox and Professor Rose Wil announce the J William Worsey Graduate Fellowship for Research in Food Distribution at Western University Ontario. Open to US and Canadian graduates, $3500 yearly plus travel, applications due June 1, winner July 15, second year focus on field research in food distribution. Dr Worsey of Dominion Stores supports the effort to study producer to consumer channels affecting consumers and producers. A second item notes Hypholth penicillin variant showing promise in meningitis pneumonia and other infections, cheaper to produce than remicitin and soon widely available.
An auction listing items for sale includes horses cattle hogs and dairy stock plus harnesses implements farm machinery and a large real estate offering. The sale is set for a Tuesday at a Trafalgar township location two miles east of Milton with a reserve on the farm real estate of about 1000 acres.
Farm described with brick house and frame barn on a windward site. Water in stable, 40 acres fall ploughed, 40 acres wheat, remaining 60 acres pasture. Sale explains sale reason and inspection prior to auction. Terms cash on chattels. settlement with Clerk on sale day. Auctioneers listed.
Wartime gardeners are urged to keep planting in 1945 to ease transport strain. The Dominion Department of Agriculture offers free pamphlet The Wartime Garden with advice on what to plant, garden insects, and maintenance.
Quebec reports that Treasurer Gagnon and Trade Minister Beaulieu returned from Mexico where they said Mexico plans to buy Canadian ships to bolster merchant marine. They claim Canadian products will find a good market in Mexico.
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