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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
18
Advice on storing peaches pears and apples to keep flavor, plus recipes for canning peaches and pears with sugar syrup. Includes tips on preventing discoloration, using citrus, and cautions about strong flavors. Addresses user questions about pickling cucumbers and mold in fruit juice, with a chili sauce recipe and general kitchen practices.
A farmer laments provincial plans for a forty eight hour week and notes scarce help during threshing. John the returning help improves milking and chores. the writer reflects on work pace, laughter during bottling and canning, and stories of wounded and repatriated soldiers underscoring wartime hardship and rare glimpses of relief.
A 15 year old, Norman May of Midland Ontario, was sent home from Dorval airport after a failed attempt to stow away on a Transport Liberator. He said his aim was to reach overseas to avenge his brother who died in the sinking of the Canada Newfoundland ferry Caribou two years earlier.
The Quarterly Review of Coarse Grains reports wartime shifts in Canada and the United States. From 1940 to 1944 livestock and poultry fed wheat rose, while human wheat consumption fell. In 1943-44 humans may use about 50 million bushels versus over 100 million bushels for animals in Canada.
The article notes Lt Buz Beurling expects to leave in mid October for the Far East to pursue aerial combat with Japan. His resignation from the Royal Canadian Air Force was accepted and he would not confirm the size of his future force. It had been revealed earlier that he offered his services to China.
In 1909 Canada produced 116.7 billion pounds of milk, rising by 1963 to 175 billion pounds, a 114 percent gain. The Economic Annalist notes broad increases across provinces, aided by dairy price gains and grain price shifts, as war-time changes push farms toward mixed operations and creamery output.
Mrs John Hosking of Elora Ontario reported finding an egg inside an outer shell twice in quick succession. The first shell measured inches long and seven inches around, with a thin shell, and when broken another complete egg was found inside along with yolk and white.
A garbled newspaper item quotes a city druggist advertising unsafe medical supplies at rock bottom prices. A doctor in a village questions precautions for contagion as a sanitary suite and cakes are discussed while a visitor reflects on the memory.
A garbled OCR passage cites a parliamentary debate with references to Ministers King and a Commons statement. The text hints at an impending dissolution or expiry and mentions assurances about delegation and the possibility of elections, though many words are unclear.
An advert from South Lincolnshire offers a nine room village villa at 29 pounds with ghost and lamp included. The buyer must take the place away with him as the value rises if left behind.
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