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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1944
Page
2
Of Interest to Women from The Mixing Bowl discusses milk as the staple vitamin rich food. It provides recipes for creamed vegetable soups rice pudding and gelatin desserts, plus tips on using wheat germ and prunes for nutritive value and simple serving ideas for families.
A reader recounts getting lost in a Toronto in law’s six room flat during a total blackout. He wanders from bath to kitchen unable to locate switches or doors, aided only by memory and a faint hope of light, finally discovering the bedroom door and a faulty angle in the hall.
Recorder A Thouln fined 170 participants five dollars each after a city bingo game raid by police. Servicemen, women with babies and teens were among those found inside the room when authorities closed the game.
Shortage of delivery workers forces fuel customers in Saint John to fetch coal themselves or call in orders. Harlen B. McMann, president of the Saint John Coal Importers Association, urges residents to send a truck for immediate coal needs.
A speaker remarks that a bride wears white as a symbol of happiness on her wedding day and a questioner asks why the men wear black, prompting a brief exchange about attire in the ceremony.
Magistrate G J Tweedy presided as about 70 people appeared and pleaded guilty to operating radio receiving sets without licences. Fines totaled nearly $500.
A collection of humorous exchanges shows a waiter smoothing over a difficult customer, a chef debating fashion with a customer, and staff trying to balance tact with service. In Ohio a coffee shop owner laments low profits with a witty sign while other gags involve misunderstandings about hats and fashion. The text preserves a dated humor tone with punchlines and social situational humor.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials sourced ingredients worldwide for this year’s Christmas cake. Raisins arrive from Australia, spices from the British West Indies, Ceylon, and Zanzibar, candied peel and walnuts from the U.S., tree nuts from Spain Portugal and Mexico. The effort honors the Canadian Navy and Merchant Navy for their role in delivering ingredients.
Kenya's government invites plans within a one year development program. Progress already made under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act includes soil conservation and agricultural development. The package funds agricultural training for Africans, a housing scheme in Nairobi for government workers, and education for women and girls. An approved hydrographic survey and Tana River reconnaissance support water supply development. Projected cost about 9.96 million dollars.
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