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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 25, 1943
Page
3
Homemaker guidance urges saving kitchen fats to support the war effort. Collect rendered fats in wide-mouthed cans, take to meat dealers for pay, and send tallow to soap makers from which glycerine fuels explosive production. Also notes donates to local salvage committees and cautions on handling fats safely.
A reader reflects on Dr Christie advice to farmers, discusses practical on farm problem solving, ponders a winter roof failure joke, and updates on a mineral prospect near a mountain with an iron ore body. Weather chatter follows with ice storms and warm days challenging residents.
Mrs. Tom Barger lost her wedding ring on the family farm thirty years ago. The Bargers later moved to Meadowville. A farm boy recently found the ring on a country road near the old farm, weather worn after three decades.
Nearly 10 000 women over 40 are to be directed by the Labor Ministry to serve as home helps for expectant mothers or hospital patients. Hired by city councils at a shilling an hour, they will handle cooking cleaning and washing and care for the household until the mother is ready. Each borough will have about 10 helpers in full operation.
The essay notes the return of daylight saving time and longer mornings. It contrasts winter darkness with brighter evenings as sidewalks reopen and buds appear. Birds, dripping icicles, and warmer sunshine signal spring though March remains uncertain.
Soviet women in Moscow receive high title Hero of the Soviet Union for exemplary and courageous fulfillment of military assignments during wartime.
The article recounts the 1918 German spring offensive on the Western Front, detailing Ludendorff’s plan to split British and French forces, the British defense near Arras and the Somme, key towns captured, and Foch being named Allied commander in chief. It notes 30,000 British soldiers and 600 guns captured and the shift in momentum toward Allied resistance.
Canadian press outlines a color coded garden plan to maximize healthful foods. It links vitamin content to plant color, listing vegetables for vitamins A B C and D and notes greens and yellow hues aid the diet. The guide emphasizes spinach, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and berries among others.
Blantyre Nyasaland reports that mission work has greatly extended access to simple schooling. The effort places basic education within reach for a large portion of the population, highlighting early 20th century missionary influence on literacy and community development.
Ottawa reports wartime entertainment for Canadian troops in the Fourth Year of war. LCA lists two weeks of overseas squadron programs with double features, station bands, dances, lectures, a YMCA music circle, and variety shows. Activities are spread among officers, sergeants, airmen, and troops with both on base and open events.
Fifty members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps were welcomed in Britain at Wellington Barracks by Maj Gen P J Montague. Guards officers joined the ceremony as the contingent paraded past, with Montague saluting and addressing each member individually.
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