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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
6
Practical guide for home cooks highlighting tomatoes for fresh use canning and winter meals. Includes Devilled Tomatoes, Baked Stuffed Tomatoes, Tomato Relish, Chili Sauce, canned Tomato Juice, and Tomato Cocktail with step by step ingredients and methods.
The teacher asks Johnny what a hypocrite is and he answers that it is a boy who wears a smile at school. This quip captures a light moment highlighting youthful wit and schoolyard humor from a 18th century style dialogue.
Preliminary figures place Canada peaches at 754000 bushels for 1940 with Ontario contributing 568000 and British Columbia 185600. Quality praised, with healthful benefits noted and grade labels Select No1 No2 and No3 required on containers.
The New York Times reports 83 persons in Roscoe Sullivan County New York fell ill with gastro enteritis after consuming raw milk. One patient hospitalized. water supply ruled not to be the cause. pasteurized milk substituted.
Incandescent mantles for oil lamps are Britain's wartime export to Argentina and South America. The Argentine Public Works Minister ordered them as 1.5 million mantles yearly are used in oil-lit towns and ranches. Britain already ships a quarter of global mantle demand, including miniature microscope sizes and large eleven inch mantles for lighthouses.
A terse exchange centers on a chicken considered a rooster by a farmer and a plan to sell or claim the bird. The dialogue hints at a dispute over ownership and possible sale.
The weekly review notes an ordered investigation into internment camp organization led by Hon. J L Ralston. It lists a new committee for scientific investigations, 123 war contracts totaling 10 725 123 dollars, and a national war loan plan with top financial figures. Frank M Ross and E J Brunning named heads of naval production and munitions. Naval HQ announces transfer of 50 over aged US destroyers to Britain with Caribbean Atlantic base leases. Atlantic command to concentrate Third Division in Maritime Provinces. Howe announces three new rifle and anti aircraft plants costing about 17.5 million. Ralston approves Netherlands Infantry Battalion raised in Canada at Dutch expense.
Ginger Farm correspondent Gwendoline P Clarke recounts a rough week with threshing duties solo, missing bread, grain losses, and a failed radio repair. Nell the horse dies, Perch grieves, and a blown radio tube leaves them in radio silence on the eve of a Sunday. The narrative blends farm toil with small misfortunes and hope for news from the British air force.
Canada and the United States formalized defense commitments with a joint statement from Prime Minister Mackenzie King and President Franklin D Roosevelt. A permanent joint board of defense will be established to oversee defense of the western hemisphere including sea, land, and air, with members from both nations. Naval and military attaches were appointed in Washington shortly after.
In four years the Malartic community in Northwestern Quebec has risen to town status. The town grew around CN Railways line from Senneterre via Val d Or to Noranda. Mines produce about 1076 tons daily, employ 750 men with a substantial payroll. The town offers schools, churches, banks and shops.
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