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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
3
A broken housewife notebook item lists pudding and grape sauce recipes with measurements and methods for canning damson plums and apple varieties for cider and baking. It includes tips on geranium slips, potted plants, fish flavor retention, and rolled salad dressings without eggs, ending with notes on meringue timing and egg whiten guidelines.
The writer describes anticipation of September 17 as Lights Up in the Old Country marks relief after five years of darkness. The piece contrasts bright urban light with imperial gloom and reflects wartime hope and daily farm labor in Ontario. It mentions harvest completion, sugar shortages, and plans to resume civilian materials.
Six missionary sisters of the Franciscan Order depart for Australia to establish a novitiate in Brisbane and serve at Phantom Island Hospital caring for leprosy victims.
New York dispatch reports women workers on shifts photographically inspecting each grain of rocket powder made at Sunflower Ordnance Works near Lawrence. Each grain is marked and passed through an X ray camera to ensure uniform burning and prevent premature explosions, with grain sizes kept secret for security.
Poultry service officials from the Dominion Department of Agriculture warn that attempting to make a living from 400 to 500 hens is impractical and wastes labor. They advocate expanding flocks to 2,000 or more for efficiency and profitability.
The Healops and D Arcy Munro, three white survivors rescued by an American plane from Fort Ross, are headed back to a northern post after a dramatic relief mission near Somerset Island. An October 1943 rescue involved a Douglas C47 delivering 2000 pounds of supplies and parachutists. The event, once deemed fiction like, became a real life tale of endurance in the Arctic.
The roads department staff Aquilas Pelletier and Paul Cyr in Saint Vincent de Paul Montreal suburb walked off their job over a ten cent raise to the 40 cent hourly rate. The strike left an unfinished sidewalk as workers left the project.
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