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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
6
From the Consumer Service Section recipes for Viennese Tarte and Chocolate Ice Box Cake show economical, high calibre desserts using eggs milk and fruit. Procedures include meringue layers with almonds and a chocolate custard filling, with chilling and layering steps.
A fashion note outlines smart daytime attire with a white crepe blouse featuring pin-tucks and a high shoulder yoke plus a square collar with hand embroidered monogram. It mentions a dark brown gabardine bag with patent buttons, and the popular step-lift pump in gabardine with patent, noting the walled last to highlight trim contrast.
A practical wartime instruction outlines how to ship soft candy to troops. It recommends lightweight tin boxes lined with oiled paper and filled with warm fudge and small marshmallows to keep texture moist during transport, then wrapped and addressed for mailing.
Britain earns a 2 million pound deal to build and repair yards at Istanbul's Golden Horn. The plan makes Turkey a major Eastern Mediterranean shipping hub, reducing dependence on German yards and potentially drawing Greece and Yugoslavia to place orders with Istanbul. The Golden Horn project could alter Black Sea competition with Russia and Romania.
Six representatives from the Canadian Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Knights of Columbus, and the YMCA join Canadian troops overseas. They are carried on active strength and tasked with carrying welfare units of their organizations in cooperation with the Directorate of Auxiliary Services as operations continue abroad.
In a long diary style note, Barber explains weighing buying versus hiring a tractor for Ginger Farm. He lists four reasons to upgrade including worn horses, limited help, son’s interest in tractors, and alfalfa field work. Despite costs and war uncertainty, a rebuilt Blank tractor was purchased and welcomed, easing Partner’s strain and bringing relief to the family dynamics.
The motorcycle becomes vital to Britain's war economy serving active duty on land and home front, aiding exports to South America India and South Africa, police and messenger work, patrols, and municipal duties. Drivers rely on motorcyclists as guides, likened to mechanical sheep dogs showing the way.
"Daddy," said his little daughter as they watched an airplane. "Do you think they will ever get to heaven flying away up like that?" "Not by going away, my dear," he replied. "They are more likely to do it by coming down."
The article contrasts Sir George Simpson's two month route from Montreal to Edmonton with modern Trans-Canada Airlines flights. It notes the old overland and river journey via Ottawa Nipissing Lake Superior and Red River routes, and compares with current Montreal or Toronto departures reaching Lethbridge by evening and Edmonton by the next afternoon, with night flights from Montreal and Toronto.
A Canadian citizen values home comforts after long walks as armies modernize with trucks. Soldiers still walk daily and seek YMCA centers for rest, food, and diversions through CA programs. Many commuters also support the YMCA War Service Funds with this homely reflection.
Writings from Aldershot report in the Hamilton Spectator describe M C A mobile tea cars delivering hot tea and biscuits to troops. The service boosts morale for soldiers in cold camps and remote training areas, supplying a vital human touch the army cannot provide.
In a morning sermon the parson urged repentance and belief, warning his congregation that without true penance they will be lost in a measure. He emphasized that merely hearing the Word without genuine conversion fails to save souls.
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