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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
11
Milk as nature's perfect food is hard for children to drink. Try rennet custards with chocolate mint and apricot flavors plus cottage cheese pie with raisins and coconut. These desserts improve intake for both children and adults in hot weather.
A government inspector in Hull was served horseflesh described as fine steak on a restaurant menu and fined 10 pounds 480 shillings. The incident highlights mislabeled meat as a food safety issue.
Malvern England reports a plea from Rev Bo A Townson urging Britain and Germany to address falling birthrates. He warns the nation that sustained low birthrates could threaten future societal and economic stability.
London designers unveil a fall collection based on English garden roses and onion motifs. Quiet moss roses and damasks, small prints, and delicate shading lead a range including crested cabbage and Rosa Mundi, with emblems and older motifs like Toby Jugs and Winston Churchill faces sparking appeal. Black browns and greens feature in new botanical textures.
The farm report details a busy threshing week with a full granary and three bushels ofAlsike alfalfa found worth threshing. Wheat and oats look strong, barley weaker, and a large potato harvest short of expectations. A Saturday wind blew ripe fruit from trees, with apples and pears jarred and pickling pears traded for crab apples. The rest of the page shifts to wartime production praise for rural Canadian women and farmer prospects, noting government curtailment plans and food demand projections.
Wartime conditions tighten in Boru Street and the London district as bomb hits disrupt business. The Westminster City Council calls for good traders to appeal against government measures if they feel unfairly treated.
A garbled reminiscence recalls pie making and squash varieties from a Vermont kitchen era. The passage mentions Middlebury and Storrs with references to pies, butter, loaf cake, and a grand scale cooking event in a winter season.
A man in Southend was fined for causing suffering to his greyhound and banned from keeping a dog for two years after being convicted. The sentencing followed a report of mistreatment and the court imposed the two year prohibition on dog ownership.
In Cottonwood Idaho Mrs N E Reake recalls knitting since the Civil War. Now she churns out a pair of socks daily for the Red Cross and refugees, aiming to surpass a wartime record. In London two youths faced charges after lifting 18 bottles of sherry during fire watching, ordered to pay costs.
In Middlenton England A S Platt on seven days leave carried Molly Walton a 25 year old land army girl to the station and they became engaged before the train departed. Pictures show Molly admiring her diamond ring.
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