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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 07, 1940
Page
6
Guidance on packing balanced school lunches to improve noon meals for children. Suggestions include including fresh fruit like oranges, milk, vegetables, and whole grains, plus sandwich ideas with orange marmalade and cream cheese or peanut butter. A recipe for orange honey bread is provided with steps and bake time.
Canada began compulsory military training for young men with little fanfare while the United States used a dramatic lottery. Numbers drawn in blue capsules were announced by President Roosevelt amid klieg lights as cameras flashed and reporters fed copy to the nation via radio and telegraph.
The first official car of sugar from Manitoba Sugar Company's new plant was sent to Portage la Prairie. The CN line carried 1,508 tons of beets in 2 1/2 hours of continuous operation.
Reporters reveal Princess Kay, allegedly the Duchess of Kent, trained as a Royal Air Force Volunteer Nurse and worked two days weekly at the hospital. Patients and staff describe her as charming and popular while she completed a 60 hour course and aiding in beds, dishes, and surgical care.
A London case details a 15 month old girl saved from peril by M B 760, a new drug. After 12 weeks from diagnosis and eighth day of treatment the child fully recovered, running about in good health, with doctors praising the drug’s blood poisoning combating properties.
Over one hundred British paint manufacturers ship varnishes enamels and paints abroad, totaling about 5,000,000 annually. In the first half of this year exports surpassed peace time volumes despite losing markets in Scandinavia and Holland. Strong demand for cellulose lacquers for car finishes and synthetic resin varnishes grows amid war.
Buxton England reports that cabes have been sent from Buxton to the seven Buxtons in the United States seeking their cooperation in the Buxton Spitfire Fund.
Ottawa edition outlines the opening of a new parliamentary session amid wartime measures. Government plans include debate on the address, potential wartime legislation, and continued war power expansions for Britain and Canada. Crerar tours western defences as Canada trains 29 750 in 39 centers while rental controls spread to population hubs.
The piece recalls a deadly aircraft accident west of Kitchener involving a Canadian pilot amid wartime danger. It laments the perils of aviation and notes the chance that luck or fate plays in such fortunes of war, while praising resilience and the community’s response in the aftermath.
Fragmented war recap covers Allied, German, and Greek moves in 1910 era lines while a personal diary frames late ploughing season and a tractor adventure. The piece blends distant battles with a neighbor’s reminiscences and a light anecdote about a tractor delaying dinner.
London CP reports Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, warns that taking instruments or parts from crashed British aircraft is a "helpful act to Germany" and condemns souvenir hunting.
In Melbourne a father and son were given six months imprisonment after a conviction for stealing a quantity of sheet metal. Both defendants faced a magistrate court where the verdict and sentence were delivered.
A narrative line describes a child named Daddy asking whether they had anything by taking two after learning that twins have arrived. The tone reflects a simple, intimate moment between a child and family. The passage emphasizes curiosity about twin birth within a domestic setting.
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