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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 23, 1939
Page
4
A vintage cooking piece outlines a vegetable plate featuring cabbage carrots beets and baked potato with lemon a balanced meal. It provides recipes for lemon buttered cabbage Harvard beets spinach and savory string beans with bacon highlighting light oil lemon juice and gentle seasoning.
Now is the time to get a reefer with popular styles and fabrics. A grand model in soft tweed in rich gold and brown features a triple-breasted closing and black braid on collar and front. Velvet and velveteen reefers are also in vogue with distinctive slot-seam details.
A 1930s style guide explains salt’s function in cooking vegetables, meats, breads, cereals, fruits, dairy drinks, candies, cakes, and eggs. It covers when to add salt, from pre cooking for roasts to minor additions in beaten whites, emphasizing flavor enhancement and texture.
An Indian Handicraft display and basket weaving demonstration will run November 25 to December 9 at Hudsons Bay Company Winnipeg store. Iroquois demonstrators from St. Regis and Oka, Quebec will showcase splint and grass weaving alongside yarn weaving by a residential school instructress. The event, organized with the Indian Affairs Branch, highlights revived crafts and a museum display from Hudsons Bay Companys historic collection, noting 3,000 Indians now earn self support through craft marketing.
Canada’s annual fuel wood bill surpasses thirty million dollars as the Department of Mines and Resources offers tips on efficient burning. Well made stoves waste less heat. tight air control matters, and dry seasoned wood yields more heat. Hard maples and oaks among top fuels. avoid wet wood to prevent fouling and maximize heating value.
Short, playful dialogue fragment shows a mother correcting a child who asks to bathe with Vera. The exchange centers on pronoun order and affectionate insistence, revealing domestic tone and character dynamics.
Gwendoline P Clarke notes Partner's birthday altered by wartime mail delays from England. Instead of cake they share a seven pound tender chicken, a feast made possible as the farm reports better feeds. The flock thrives on alfalfa and grasshoppers aiding growth.
A wartime appeal promotes using natural Canadian foods and offers a fish with apples dish. The recipe lists 2 pounds fish fillets, 1 1/2 pounds apples, butter, water, salt, sugar, and pepper butter, with steps to simmer apples and steam and broil the fish for a savory, economical meal.
London controls 95 percent of world diamond output and restricts exports to prevent Nazi access. Industrial diamonds fuel armament and precision engineering, while jewelers’ trade booms with London selling nearly a million pounds worth of uncut stones in two days to Amsterdam and Antwerp. The Government allows rough exports only when stones are clearly for jewelry, keeping German needs blocked.
In a quirky exchange labeled as advice, one speaker notes the twins’ cries are so loud that they drown each other out, praising the shared noise as a curious form of harmony in a crowded home.
A speaker notes a failed window repair in the hen house and jokes that fixing one window revealed another broken one. The remark leads to a quip about starting the forty seven chords previously mentioned.
A Canadian film titled Gold from Gravels by the Department of Mines and Resources and the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau showcases placer gold mining from pan to hydraulicking. It opens with Cariboo BC history and features giant monitors, long water pipelines, high-pressure jets, and hourly output of about six hundred cubic yards, ending with Yukon dredging scenes.
A mistress frets over a cold room and a maid named Mary who sleeps with a flatiron to stay warm. The maid reveals she warmed the bed enough to endure the night. The riddle asks what we catch but never see, offering a passing remark as the answer.
Six young members of the 1st Army Cooperation Squadron RCAF at Wenton Ontario receive their wings from Squadron Leader Keith Russell and turn command to Flight Lieutenant Norman Irwin. The arrival marks a ceremonial transfer of leadership within the squadron.
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