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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Nov 02, 1944

Page

7

Of Interest to Women Apple Recipes and Tips

A column offers practical kitchen guidance with apple based desserts including apple pie apple dumplings apple crisp and Dutch apple cake. It covers sugar quantities cooking times and basic pastry steps plus storage and meal prep notes for homemakers. It also mentions Christmas parcel sending and home crafts. The Quebec government plans fire protection measures around isolated settlements with fire barriers.

Towa Quebec Prevay Pascalis Vastauer

Busy Cities and Blankets in Ginger Farm Diary

A Ginger Farm diary details a two day city trip for boots, underwear, and stockings, plus a movie, family coincidences, and a week of chores and Red Cross work. It ends with train gossip about Bert Blank and wartime chatter, then a joke about lithal pie.

Daugter John Red Cross White Cliffs Dover Toronto Bert Blank England

Bomber Pilot Makes Narrow Escape in Italy

Pilot Officer Boyes of Fenwick Ontario recounts a Halifax mission over Yugoslavia. A bomb bay jam forced him to chute from the burning aircraft as the wheat field caught fire. He and three crew members walked twelve hours to reach friendly locals and guides toward the coast.

RCAF Italy Byard Barney? Boyes Fenwick Bayes Boyes

Cripps Calls British Women to Engage in National Affairs

Sir Stafford Cripps, minister for aircraft production, urged British women to take a larger role in national and international affairs at a Gisl Gulie Conference. He praised the Guide movement for guiding young women to responsibility and noted women could have shaped policy between the wars. He warned that reconstruction requires hard work and active participation.

London Stafford Cripps Stafford Britain

November Snow Flurry Marks Start of Month

The forenoon snow flurry lifts hopes for a long Indian Summer. A kitchen chimney spark damaged the McDougall farmhouse roof during a westerly gale on Saturday afternoon. Acton LOL No. held its annual church parade with over 100 attendees at Knox Church. Mr N P F Melam sold all cheque matching business to Mr Jan Gilmour Morriston. A Young Peoples League garden party featured a kitchen orchestra led by Miss Wattle Mason. Georgetown Council adopts Acton plan to hold municipal elections in the last week of December.

Duncan McDougallis Acton Morriston Young Peoples’ League of the Methodist Church Wattle Mason

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