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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1945
Page
3
A homemaker guidance piece offers lunch box ideas and recipes for nourishment and appeal. It includes beef loaf, cheese and egg spread, butter stretching tips, oat cookies, custards, and desserts with steps, portions, and storage notes for school or war workers' lunches.
Paul Johnsen, an engineer in VCCs Overseas Unit, returns to Canada after extensive service on war fronts. In London he will soon assume the role of assistant to Boo Cahoon in CHCs international engineering operations.
A New York AP report surveys cold remedies and defense mechanisms. Dr Noah Fabricant argues eight nose defenses, stresses rest, advis es against overuse of alcohol, and questions the effectiveness of vitamins and vaccines.
The chronicle recalls heavy snows, then thaw and floodless days across the county. It describes Red Cross canvassing, farm visits, a new collie, baby chicks, and oatmeal cakes, with a tragic farm loss and a note on wartime resilience and postwar labor hopes.
The text lists towing weights required to produce one pound of dried products. Fruits include apples 7 to 10 pounds and apricots 3 to 7 pounds, among others. Vegetables such as beets 10 pounds, cabbage 18 to 19 pounds, carrots 10 to 12 pounds, onions 14 to 16 pounds, potatoes 13 to 14 pounds.
Canadian troops overseas share homefront humor and menus as they anticipate return to Canada. Nighthawk squadron members in France discuss first meals and steak cravings, naming T bone steak with onions and lobster as favorites while dispatching brief notes from Saskatoon Edmonton Windsor and Manitoba.
Auctioneer J A Elliott offers from the estate of the late WM JO Chilton a public sale of livestock including cattle hogs poultry and a broad range of farm implements at Lot 4 Township Esquesing on Friday March 23 at 12 o'clock. Real estate a farm of about 100 acres with brick house barn and outbuildings will also be offered subject to reserve. Terms cash and details given by the clerk on sale day.
The Nutrition Division in Ottawa urges a pint daily for adults with at least a half pint minimum and higher needs for children. It notes milk is the best calcium source and compares calcium content with carrots beef potatoes and cheese as practical alternatives.
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