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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
3
A mixed item page covers garment maintenance urging regular cleaning and careful pressing with cloths and starch plus sleeve and collar handling tips. It includes simple kitchen recipes for oat bars and apple graham fluff and reports a British grant to Sierra Leone for drainage and irrigation projects.
A diary describes a lively poultry flock of two hundred fifty bebles and their growing quirks. The writer notes the dogs, a late furnace install, Red Cross fundraising success, and the heartbreak of destroying a beloved dog named Rusty after it mauled a neighbour’s geese, with plans to adopt a calico puppy.
London report details a bold wartime medical trial in which Tony Hyett, born during a German air raid, had both feet amputated above the ankle as an infant and later fitted with tiny artificial feet. He now walks, rides a tricycle, and climbs, showing remarkable recovery.
Gen. Francis de Guingand, chief of staff to the 8th Army, receives CB CBE and DSO from the King at Buckingham Palace. The officer recalls earning the DSO before Alamein and notes the CBE after reaching Tripoli and the CB for Sicily campaign.
A string of quoted snippets shows dialogue with abrupt shifts and garbled phrases. It includes a heated exchange about honesty and perception, a ground-floor resident complaining to a postman, a preservation of meat joke in class, and scattered classroom banter about pencils and spelling.
African workers in Burotxelutil collected and presented wild rubber as a contribution to the war effort. The rubber was sold and the proceeds paid to war charities.
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