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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
5
Peach season brings baked peaches escalloped peaches peach and melon compote and peach mousse. Recipes use peaches melon ginger syrup and cream with steps for baking boiling and chilling for fruit desserts.
The text explains that the Roman temple to Moneta produced coins, giving rise to the term mint. It also notes beliefs about shoe offerings at weddings symbolizing parental authority and ownership transfer. It describes the Union Jack’s composition from St George St Andrew and St Patrick crosses.
The War Veterans' Allowance Act is amended by order in council to withhold benefits from veterans who served in World War I but are not naturalized Canadians. The regulation targets Italian veterans among others, narrowing eligibility as originally broad.
Dialogic fragment hints at identity and town planning with lines about birth date and local authority. Notable names are absent or fragmented, leaving a clipped exchange on place origins and civic action. The piece conveys a casual street conversation tone rather than a narrative event.
In 1941 Canada faces a shortage of flower bulbs as Holland cannot supply tulips and most bulbs. Only a fraction of normal imports from France Belgium and the Channel Islands will arrive due to war. Japan may ship, but overall supply stays tight. British Columbia growers have not matched Dutch prices. Seedsmen expect at most 10 percent of usual bulb stocks.
A recent air raid on the English southeast coast disrupts village life as a bomb nearly halves the inn and a landlord moves the dartboard outside to continue the darts title match. The piece sketches wartime morale items from Bristol to Amsterdam and notes Britain’s blockade gains alongside home front efforts and remarkable wartime stories.
The sixth contingent of Canadian troops arrived in Great Britain with 1 500 soldiers and 33 nurses. Washington confirms treaties with Canada Australia and New Zealand. Prices on flour and bread are freed by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Newfoundland sends pilots observers and gunners for British training. An RCAF recruiting unit opens a Maritime Provinces tour. Income tax may be paid in eight instalments. Sixteen construction contracts worth 708 250 and weekly war supply contracts total 5 750 352. Canada issues a second War Loan of 300 million dollars at 3 per cent, maturing October 1 1952 with price 98 75 and yield 3 125 per cent.
Britain ships more socks stockings and shirts worldwide despite loss of European markets. War wearers reach USA South America Canada South Africa and Australia with shipments totalling 317 000 pounds and orders reaching 608 000 pounds. London craftspeople near Bond Street keep hand frame knitting alive with aging Scots artisans producing silk socks for global markets.
Western Canadian national parks saw a 13 percent rise in visitors for the four months ending July 31, 1940, totaling 366,440 compared with 323,618 a year earlier. Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Waterton, Yoho, and Prince Albert parks posted gains, with Riding Mountain reaching a record 93,158 visitors.
The text debates which agency redistributes wealth most effectively. It contrasts the idea of state action with the role of wives and daughters of rich men in shaping economic outcomes. The dialogue reflects social tensions and gendered power in wealth distribution themes.
Ginger Karm writes of wartime morale in Acton, praising British and Canadian resolve after the Buckingham Palace bombing, noting clothing aid for London and the fighting spirit. She then reports farming misfortunes with mixed grain, damp potatoes, and a thunderstorm that damaged an oak tree near the home.
A resident notes a second incident of a tree being struck near their home and asks why it was not set on fire, expressing relief at escaping a worse outcome.
The city faces a plan to raze the Maison Forrester at Saint Pierre and Notre Dame Streets to ease a traffic bottleneck. Officials propose rebuilding as a park museum, though the stone house once served as American Army headquarters in winter 1775 76 and stood as a major Old Montreal landmark.
A brief dialogue shows He preferring sleep to meals and She remarking on his laziness. She retorts about his cooking, revealing mutual grievances and playful conflict.
A drunken man halts before a large stuffed exhibit in a glass case and stares silently. He comments aloud in garbled speech, implying confusion about the scene and someone who captured it.
Gerald Wilmot, former Montreal announcer and CBC Overseas Unit staffer, interviews Lieut.-General A G L McNaughton after he reviews the GASP at Aldershot England.
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