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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
2
Homemakers learn to store late summer fruit to preserve flavor in refrigeration and use ripest fruit first. Recipes include peach pie, canned peaches and pears, Waldorf salad ideas, and a simple peach and pear dessert with cheese. Question box covers cucumber salt, mould in syrup, and a red chili sauce method.
A Ginger Farm diary entry describes farmers facing a 48 hour workweek plan and scarce help. John the former resident returns to assist with milking chores threshing and field work. The writer reflects on wartime suffering and relief with liberated prisoners and repatriates amid hopes for shorter hours.
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 in Montreal. He said his aim was to go overseas to avenge his brother who died in the Caribou ferry disaster two years earlier.
The Quarterly Review of Coarse Grains reports wartime shifts in Canada and the United States with wheat increasingly diverted to feed livestock and poultry. In 1943-44 Canada fed about 100 million bushels to animals, while human consumption rose to around 50 million. prewar averages showed 32 million for animals versus 44 million for humans.
Lt. Beurling, whose resignation from the Royal Air Force was accepted, expects to leave in mid October for the Far East to seek aerial combat with Japan. He would not specify which air force he will join, and had previously offered his services to China.
In 1909 Canara produced 116.7 billion pounds of milk, rising to 175 in 1963, a 114 percent gain. Economic Analyst notes broad increases across Canada, driven by favorable dairy prices relative to grain. War effects pushed prairie farmers toward mixed farming as creameries expanded.
In Elora Ontario Mrs. John Hosking found an unusual egg inside an egg twice in quick succession. The outer shell measured seven inches around and inch and a half thick while the interior contained a complete second egg with yolk and white.
A stamped notice appears in a village paper offering healing supplies at rockbottom prices as a wife elopes with another man. A doctor questions precautions to prevent contagion while a family jokes about a sanitary soup and delayed gossip as a visitor remarks on the scene.
In a South Lincolnshire village a large property with nine rooms features a two story brick garage and outbuildings. The owner advertises a unique sale offering a 29 dollar price but requires the buyer to take the buyer must also remove an unidentified item from a silo as part of a peculiar condition.
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