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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
11
A simple stew method instructs browning onion in fat then browning meat rolled in flour. Combine in a covered saucepan with water and tomato juice, simmer an hour. Add vegetables, cook until tender, thicken with flour slurry, season with salt and pepper before serving.
Consumer section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture shares practical lamb dishes using all front cuts. Recipes cover scalloped lamb, lamb stew, tomato dumplings, lamb loaf, kidneys sauté, and braised shoulder chops with simple instructions and common ingredients.
A letter from Ottawa recounts a family’s worry over meningitis at a Newmarket base and quarantine impacts, plus daily life notes on bicycles, mercury shortages for transformers, and a farm fire. Also covered is Canada’s 19th Parliament reopening, wartime price policies, power agreements with the United States, and King’s Hyde Park visit.
A London psychologist reports that loneliness and wartime role changes have caused minor mental disturbances in many women. Some suffer simple maladjustment from life changes while others develop unusual phobias as husbands are posted overseas.
Canadian farm radio commentators from across the country gather in Toronto on November 10 for the first national meeting of the Farm Broadcast Department. The opening broadcast features Pergua Mutrie Hugh Boyd Don Fairburn Ralph Marven Nel Morigan and Orvill Shugg with Armand Berube directing the French network from Montreal. Berube will attend but not participate in the opening broadcast due to no French Farm Forums yet.
Pr searchlight personnel at a lonely Midlands post cultivated two percent of an acre in spare time and produced in one season eight tons of potatoes ten thousand cabbages sprouts and cauliflowers five hundred pounds of carrots eight hundred lettuces and other vegetables.
The speaker laments widespread destruction from fires caused by raids across England. He notes hundreds of blazes shattering thousands of homes and urges collective action like sewing and knitting to aid those powerless to help themselves.
Britain’s rising income tax spurs private porcelain collections to overseas buyers. London's sale revealed owners owning over a hundred dinner and dessert sets. Australia Canada New Zealand South Africa and the United States purchase these pieces as valuables for use and display.
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