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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 21, 1942
Page
2
A household guide presents no bake Magi s Lemon Cream Pie using sweetened condensed milk lemon juice and grated rind plus whipping cream. It also covers a Fruit Cream Pie with fruit additions and a sour cream dressing for seafood dishes, offering simple steps and chill time for ready to serve desserts.
London fashion expert Digby Morton unveils a three piece industrial overall for women workers. The hard wearing drill set includes a shirt, slacks and apron that wraps around for maximum durability and ease of replacement components.
Nicholas Schooster, a Holland native, recalls sea voyages from 1917 including a long Canada passage. He settled in Halifax, hosts Salon Music Saturdays at 7 20 p m EDT 8 20 p m ADT for National Network listeners, and stays active in curling golf tennis and swimming with the Polar Bear Club.
A boom in long-handled cut-throat razors accompanies Sheffield cutters as Britain tightens civilian supply. Factories, with 25 percent output for home use, shift to blades for naval and military needs. stamping machines driven by workers, mainly girls, convert steel strip into blades by the thousand amid wartime demand.
Gunner Marks of a Midland searchlight battery received three separate leaves to marry the same woman. During early London raids he could not reach Jewish authorities, so he was married by a civil process. After another leave and a Jewish ceremony, records were destroyed by enemy action, forcing another marriage to complete the union.
Chronicle of a salvage effort in Acton led by GWENDOLINE P Clarke. A two month old collie pup was found among rubber items, warmed, fed, and reunited with its mother. The piece notes fifty pounds of grease recovered, scrap iron sold for Institute funds, and broader wartime community mobilization. It laments a spring rain disrupts events but praises the salvage program and civic resolve. June weather and local references appear in passing.
The Canadian Red Cross runs about 2 million POW food parcels annually with plans to double to 4.06 million by year end 1942. Volunteers pack eleven pound parcels at Montreal and Toronto depots for Geneva, benefiting prisoners in Germany Italy and Africa. Each box includes milk powder butter cheese meat and staples to cover a week of rations.
A Midland and Scottish Railway research team tested Libyan desert wind conditions to improve air cooling for tank gear boxes and engines. They built a tank rear model, achieved a 90 percent efficiency gain, and foresee future tank design gains. The department also reported rapid painting advances, barbed wire and helmet studies, and women replacing painters in the war effort.
More than 300 settlers in Alberta are aided to work homesteads under Premier Aberhart's Agriculture Lease Law. Rent is based on a percentage of actual land production, with leases usually for 20 years and renewal options. Applicants must be British subjects 18 or older, live on the land six months to a year, and build a dwelling. Taxes and rent depend on yield. poor crops can jeopardize ownership as some settlers lost homesteads under earlier schemes.
London report on two women, Mrs Ethel Line and Mrs Sarah Agar, who shifted from baking fancy pastries to preparing sand for metal castings in a war foundry. They and other TSU women have replaced men since the war began.
A restaurant owner who sold food judged by an inspector as dangerous and likely to kill a dog was fined the equivalent of 100 dollars and costs. The incident drew attention to food safety concerns and compliance.
Two men who rifled a mail bag containing letters for soldiers preparing to sail overseas were sentenced to 12 months hard labor.
In a garbled report from Cardiff London, 21 year old Darla Phillips, a worker in a Welsh factory, pays for a trip to London. She remarks on London girls as she contemplates smarts and style, noting they seem dowdy.
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