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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
13
A Dominion Department of Agriculture guide promotes cottage cheese as versatile and inexpensive. It suggests making curds from sour skim milk, then serves recipes including Sea Foam Salad Tomato Cream Beet Salad and Cottage Cheese Salad with fruit, coconut, and vanilla.
Lord Chancellor and government prepare legislation to move aged magistrates to a supplemental list for pension, aiming to relieve court workloads. Officials say more than 10 000 magistrates may be affected with some over 90, as Parliament is urged to grant powers if transfers are insufficient.
Dutch East Indies supply vast wartime resources including 30 percent of world rubber and 17 percent of tin, with significant oil, copra, and financial support. The region houses a modern army, pilots training for Britain, and a fleet aiding Allied navies as war demands accelerate.
London regulation gives coroners power to hold inquiries when a registrar reports reasonable evidence of death in air raids where bodies are missing destroyed or unrecoverable. It removes the need for High Court leave to presume death, speeding inquest actions.
The article outlines two whitewash formulas from the Dominion Experimental Farms. A rainproof mix uses quicklime, salt, zinc sulfate, skim milk, and optional alum for outdoor surfaces. The disinfectant wash combines lime, salt, alum, lyes or creasol, cement, and washing blue for bright whiteness, with guidance on metal surfaces and application.
The piece emphasizes sea power as central to Britain's war effort protecting Atlantic trade and food supplies. It notes Royal Navy protection of merchant convoys, routes to Africa and the Middle East, and Allied successes helped by naval campaigns from Lofoten to the Mediterranean. It warns of German surface raiders, U boats, and mines threatening Britain’s western approaches.
In a farmer’s diary style note the author laments radio outages delaying news and weather, complains about timing with seeding, and describes farm life including a busy son, a sick cow, rat issues, and a desire to write a memory book. The piece blends daily challenges with humorous anecdotes about misplaced belongings.
The New Zealand government bought twenty properties averaging 29 000 acres to resettle ex servicemen. The project costs about 750 000 for land plus buildings animals and machinery. Initially three or four men will occupy each property with training courses offered to those needing farming instruction and experienced farmers allowed to develop the land. The aim is to identify the best farming material among ex service men for long term use.
Ottawa reports Dr Hengerty outlines best foods for parcel packs to Britain. Cheese meat butter and beans supply fats proteins vitamins while dried fruit canned goods and irradiated items aid nutrition for children and elderly. beware gifts over two pounds may be confiscated.
War era plea urging Canadians to support victory by saving, lending, and working. Cites Hitler’s conquests and Churchill's call for tools to defeat tyranny. Describes hardships under dictatorship and the moral duty to fund defense efforts.
Fragmented OCR text shows student notes from grades 4 to 8, reports on hockey and a January pay plan, with names like Carol Young and Jack Baynton. Mention of a hockey game at Brysdenock, a 21 February date, and various pupil quotes and classroom captions.
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