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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1943
Page
3
Advice on ironing clothes for shape and ease of ironing, including dampening, heat levels by fabric type, hanging methods, and turning garments inside out. Also includes a Q&A column with mustard pickle, deviled egg plate ideas, and saccharine guidance for applesauce.
A reader asks about milk prices and bottle charges in Toronto and other centers, with guidance to contact the Pace Board for overcharge investigations. The celery price note, canning sugar coupons, and ceiling rules on peaches plums and pears are clarified, plus how to obtain Consumers News from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
Polish naval authorities report the submarine Dzik torpedoed a 5,000 ton enemy tanker and a 6,000 ton passenger vessel in the Adriatic. Both ships were considered probably sunk, giving Dzik a record for sinkings and for Polish submarines operating with the Royal Navy.
In Kent, Sgt. Robert Ellingham, a 35 year old farm owner, earned hero status after he saved a dangerous ammunition shell in Sicily. He had planned farm management detail before enlisting and is hospitalized in Egypt with wounds from the shell he attempted to safeguard. Reports trace his service through France, India and Iraq.
The article notes that children in the giggling age respond eagerly to jokes and funny scenes. It warns laughter can hinder serious attention in class but also sees humor as a resilience aid through mistakes and rebuffs.
The narrator recounts farm trials with hens roosters and pullets in the brooder house and barn, detailing endless roosting habits fencing tweaks and repeated shuttling of birds. The piece reflects on stubborn poultry behavior and the effort required to raise a flock for market while arguing that farming demands perseverance.
Police arrested three youths after a call claimed a bear was robbing a cornfield. A resident demanded action and the bears replied by phrase “No body but us bears” before officers intervened.
Harriet Campbell, working with Dr. Henry Sherman at Columbia University, spent 24 years studying milk in rats to project its role in human diets. Their experiments with whole wheat and milk powder form a basis, while adding calcium cod liver and green beans are being tested for longevity effects.
In Fraser Valley BC the first Aircraft Detection Corps post opens as part of a plan to organize interior BC into a network of observers. Chief Observer Fred Rolley says volunteers play a crucial role in aviation safety with women on day shifts and men at night. Observers report every aircraft sighted or heard, guiding contact with RCAF and using provided binoculars and aircraft information.
A Norfolk plowman uncovered an urn containing 1,300 Roman coins believed buried for safety during invasion fears. The coins date to the reigns of Probus and Gallienus as experts assess the find near the village.
At Turcot Montreal CN roundhouse workers groom up to 147 locomotives daily. The yard runs 24 hours with 480 staff, servicing engines every eleven minutes on peak. Turnout peaks between four and eight p m with a high of 135 despatches daily.
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