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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
3
A nostalgic food feature offers kid friendly ways to use milk in desserts. It presents Chocolate Mint Rennet-Custard and Apricot Chocolate Rennet-Custard with steps and toppings. Also provided is Cottage Cheese Pie with raisins or coconut, honey, lemon and cream baked to a firm set.
A government inspector found horseflesh served as steak at a Hull restaurant. The menu described it as fillet of steak with a price, and the establishment was fined 10 pounds and 48 shillings.
Rev. Bob Townson warns Britain faces population strain with only 20 million in the British Isles and 100 million in Germany by the year 2000. The bachelor minister urges policy attention to birthrates and national planning.
London notes describe fabrics from Great Britain embracing moss and damask roses with delicate shading. Designs include moss roses Celeste Pink Celine and Rose Mundi on cottons and rayons and even wreaths of onions for scarce value. Also mentions London railways motifs and Toby Jugs as up to date. A hospital birth reports a baby girl weighing forty-two ounces at birth and five pounds at weeks old, noted as bright as a new penny.
The Ginger Farm chronicle details a week of threshing with a full granary and unexpected Alsike barley, plus potatoes and wind damage. It covers farm life, harvest results, and humorous prep stories alongside wartime Canada’s push to boost farm output and rural women’s contributions to the war economy.
In Boru St Lomdarn district wartime shortages and bombing toll stress business. The Westminster City Council urged good traders to appeal against government restrictions if they feel excessive.
A fragmentary report notes extensive pie making in a 19th century setting with references to New York and Middlebury Vermont. The piece mentions quantities of ingredients and long running baking traditions tied to seasonal gatherings and festive loaves.
A Southend man, father of 15, was fined after convictions for causing suffering to a long hound. He received a two year dog prohibition as part of the penalties.
COTTONWOOD Idaho Mrs N E Reake learned to knit during the Civil War and has continued through every conflict since. She now knits for refugees and soldiers producing a pair of socks daily for the Red Cross and aiming to beat her First Great War record of 100 pairs. London two youths who lifted 18 bottles of sherry while fire watching were ordered to pay £2 with costs. a lorry driver who received 17 bottles in the same year was fined £9 with costs.
In Middlenton England ccPy- Corp. A. S. Platt, on seven days leave, escorted Molly Walton a 25 year old land army girl to the station and they became engaged before the train departed. Papers show Molly admiring her diamond ring.
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