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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1943
Page
6
A kitchen column offers grape based preserves guidance including grape jelly and jam methods, jars and paraffin sealing, and cautions on cooking duration. It includes a Q A section with answers on canning tomatoes with corn syrup tins and egg substitutes in sauces and custards.
A city visitor describes daily life in wartime housing and shops. She notes friendly clerks and a tailor who fixed her coat, contrasts city and country living, and observes how residents cope with rationing and heat. The piece ends with a reflection on wartime news and urban indifference.
Mr Howe announces that owners of passenger cars may have tires reinforced with camelback rubber without a tire ration permit. Government may ease wartime sacrifices as resources allow, crediting 2,000 salvage committees and countless volunteers for collecting waste rubber. Despite synthetic rubber growth, a tire shortage persists, and salvaging tires remains vital to manufacturers.
The Royal Ontario Museum presents Egyptian food of 1800 B C with agricultural gear including hoes rakes and winnowing fans a 4000 year old plough model hitched to oxen and a calf birth model. An ancient wall scene from 1500 B C shows a trade expedition to the Red Sea with the Egyptian ambassador and banquet. The hieroglyph inscription lists bread beer wine meat fruit and all the good things of Egypt.
The first respondent to a recruiting appeal ad for South African women is Mrs Dan Pienaar widow of Maj Gen Dan Pienaar killed in an air crash last December. She joins as a private.
London dispatch quotes a 31 point secret document for Dutch workers stating the Gestapo tends to know little and urging workers to reveal nothing about their work even to spouses. The paper notes the document has just reached London.
The article portrays Lloyd George at his Surrey farm near Brynileon facing production growth and scientific farming as part of wartime effort. It notes his age, parliamentary seat, routine, and role as an agricultural adviser with the National Farmers Union while avoiding political talk at the farm.
A chronicler notes the so called Jack Rabbit is actually a German hare brought to Ontario in 1912 and released near Brantford. It spread to Sarnia in 1920 Toronto in 1925 and Georgian Bay in 1927. The piece discusses the hare as both beneficial and destructive to agriculture and orchards.
Old times seem to return at a recent camp meeting at Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Tennessee. Wagons and buggies outnumber autos, with one wagon hauling hay frames making a sixteen mile round trip to bring twenty worshipers to the service.
The notice lists various grocery coupons with expiration dates in October and November and specifies sugar quantities per coupon. It notes which coupon pairs are valid and the amounts allowed per item, indicating multiple coupons may be used for purchases. The text contains many garbled phrases but centers on coupon validity and sugar limits.
A fragment on worry and coping with fear contrasts two paths for handling anxiety. It urges choosing constructive action over paralysis and notes that recovery or decline hinges on health and effort. The piece ends with a garbled line about wartime boards offering assistance.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board issued new rationing rules this week. Prices rose and some meat and gear allowances were restricted while stores and retailers must enforce the updated limits.
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