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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
13
A set of consumer section recipes highlights baked peaches escalloped peaches peach and melon compote and peach mousse. Steps include peeling or not peeling peaches boiling sugar and water baking frying and chilling with measurements for each dish.
A historical note explains that Rome housed a temple to Moneta where coins were minted and that the term mint derives from Moneta. It also mentions old wedding customs involving shoes and explains the origins of the Union Jack’s design with the crosses of St George St Andrew and St Patrick.
By Order in Council the War Veterans' Allowance Act benefits shall not extend to naturalized Canadians. The regulation targets Italian veterans who remain non naturalized, constraining assistance to those who served in His Majesty's Forces or allied forces during the Great War.
Fragmentary dialogue about birth date and town planning. It features characters Cuthbert Miss Snip late as usual and Tourisl who questions who laid out the town, with a Native remark that the place is not dead yet. The excerpt preserves conversational tone and local color.
The Dominion Horticulturist notes a shipment shortage from the Netherlands will limit tulip and other bulb supplies in Canada in 1941. With France Belgium and Channel Islands under occupation imports drop, while Japan may supply some. BC growers lag Dutch prices. seedsmen expect only about 10 percent of usual bulb stock. The remedy lies in spring perennials and conserving old bulbs. indoor forcing bulbs will be scarce until supplies rebound.
A wartime air raid on the English southeast coast brings odd scenes and human interest. A village inn survives as a dartboard is hung outside for a local darts title match. A Bristol woman billeted soldiers and learns one is her divorced husband. News notes report 12,000,000 laying hens to be slaughtered in Holland, and the slogan Low Heels for Victory. Other items praise salvage drives, wartime gifts, and a legless RAF pilot who leads Canadians after downing a bomber. Capt. Seymour Berry witnesses a magnetic mine’s impact near a coastal town.
The report lists key wartime measures and progress including the arrival of the sixth Canadian troop contingent in Great Britain with 1,500 soldiers and 33 nurses. It notes treaties signed in Washington with the US and other dominions, price relief actions, church prayers for victory, transfer of US destroyers to Britain, Newfoundland pilots joining training, an RCAF recruiting unit tour, broader tax instalment options, 16 construction contracts totaling 708000, weekly wartime spending, and Canada’s second war loan of 300 million dollars at 3 percent due in 1952 with 98.75 price and 3.125 yield.
Britain ships rising orders of socks stockings and shirts to the USA South America Canada South Africa and Australia totaling £317 000 with further £608 000 in orders since. London craftsman near Bond Street still make hand frame silk socks while Tweed country knitwear dominates US markets and London shirt makers supply collars laundered abroad.
The Department of Mines and Resources reports a 13 percent rise in western Canada park visitors for four months ending July 31, 1940, totaling 366 440 compared with 323 618 the prior year. Banff Jasper Kootenay Waterton Yoho and Prince Albert plus Riding Mountain show higher attendance with notable gate counts and highway access boosted figures.
A satirical quote argues that the most effective agents of wealth redistribution are the wives and daughters of rich men, reflecting a critical stance on wealth power dynamics.
Ginger Karm writes from Acton about wartime morale, royal visits, and the bombing of Buckingham Palace, praising Canadian and British resolve. She notes mixed harvests, damp grain hampering early potatoes, a thunderstorm that damages a radio and a tree, and urges thrift and solidarity with air raid victims.
Residents report a second tree being struck near their home, sparking concerns about safety as investigators assess possible causes and risks.
Progressive demands for wider thoroughfares threaten the Maison Forrester at Saint Pierre and Notre Dame Streets in Old Montreal. The house, dating to the French regime, served as American Army headquarters in 1775 76 under Montgomery and Arnold, and could be razed for a museum park.
A light exchange reveals mutual digs about appetite and cooking. He laments sleep over meals while she calls him lazy, and he retorts about her poor cooking revealing familiar marital tensions.
A drunken man halts before a large stuffed figure in a glass case and, after a silent pause, mutters a humorous jab about a liar, highlighting a moment of odd street theater and misheard speech.
Gerald Wilmot, former Montreal announcer now with CBC Overseas Unit, interviews Lieut.-General A. G. L. McNaughton after he reviewed the GASF at Aldershot England.
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