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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1938
Page
6
Of Interest to Women presents novel Thanksgiving accompaniments. The column offers two recipes: Spaghetti Supreme with veal and peas baked in broth and a Lima bean dish with mock hollandaise sauce. It cites substitutions like macaroni shapes and details steps for layering, baking, and finishing with buttered crumbs.
Three fresh Paris sketches show a black suede dressy bag with antin ribbon handles, an undersarm bag of black ante lope with double ruffles and tortoise shell bail, and a young suede bag with a tubular grid handle. Also included are several dessert and pie recipes featuring cranberries, Brazil nuts, coconut, and apricot mince meat.
Dean Halliday offers a Central Press weekly Garden Graph on timely perennial bed care. The piece discusses tidying clumps, forking soil, feeding beds, and managing weeds to protect plant clumps and bulbs as spring moves in.
An elderly man at a cinema drops something and explains he has lost a caramel. The woman asks for clarification and he clarifies that his teeth are missing, so he is seeking a single caramel.
A column of items of interest for Weesn readers lists daily themes and aphorisms for October a week. It includes Bible verse, moral maxims, and home hints on remedies for cracked lips and drips. It notes Canada leading global newsprint production with 1937 exports of $103,639,634.
Ontario reports 38 percent fewer highway fatalities as the Department of Highways pursues a three E plan engineering education and enforcement. Engineers redesign curves hills and bridges to improve visibility and safety while widening bridges and adding signs and signals to reduce bottlenecks and dangerous approaches.
Diary notes recount the 1914 18 war as vindicated by its role in averting another global catastrophe. Reflections on peace, Northern Lights, weather folklore, and daily homestead routines follow, with family life, threshing, and neighborly gatherings interwoven.
School fair results list numerous 4H style prizes and participants from North Esquesing and Nassagaweya. Winners include Annie Rinehart Audrey Rinehart Gordon Darby Isabelle McLeod Mildred Lindsay Charley Barber Garnet Norrish Youart Wilson and many others in livestock, writing, art, and baking divisions.
The International Commission to arrange Cutch evacuation and German Czech settlement after the Munich agreement includes Andre Francois Poncet Baron Ernest von Weizsacher Dr Bernardo Attohico Sir Nevile Henderson and Dr Vojtech Masuny as the fifth voting member.
Prime Minister King officiated the unveiling of two figures symbolizing peace atop the 70 foot National War Memorial as scaffolding surrounds the memorial. The scene includes Sydney March sculptor Count de Danpierre and a French minister in the background.
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