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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1946
Page
10
An instructional piece on preparing and cooking fish with freezing tips, thawing guidance, and methods for baking whole, stuffed, sautéed, fried, boiled, and steamed fish. It covers lean versus oily fish, adjustments for oven temperature, and a variety of side dishes and sauces to create meatless, Lent season friendly meals.
A Ginger Farm diary recounts a week of heavy tractor traffic and social visits. Hob shifts between fields and neighbors while a sense of seasonal worry lingers about crops, prices, and distribution. The piece highlights farm life, crafts, and a bunny hobbyist with handmade furniture and needlework.
Ida Reber of Valleyview near Gramie Pratete Edmonton has soloed 14 hours of dual instruction in the club cabin trainer becoming possibly the first woman to solo at the Edmonton Flying Club since 1937. She trained by Jack Hadley and Jack Ross and plans to pursue further dual instruction and tests toward a commercial pilot career.
A junior executive, after three weeks of work, drafts a memorandum asking that the material be sent to the chairmen of the Valid Committees. He expects promotion if approved, but the president requests clarification. The revised paragraph reads I compose that this prominent material be sent to the charwomen of the various communities.
Williams Lake led British Columbia in cattle shipments with 1 580 head. Kamloops Chase ranked second with 12 007 head, followed by Nicos with 9 892 head.
The executive of the Truro Amateur Athletic Club met with the town property committee and approved leasing the renovated third floor of the club house for dancing and for the high school swing club activities.
Ottawa based Miss Juliette Gaultier de la Ver endrye showcases dyeing with natural plant dyes on buffalo wool garments scarves and woven articles. Her research began in Austria and extended across Alaska Yukon and British Columbia gathering plant sources and traditional techniques. She exhibited internationally in 2017 earning a gold medal for research in arts and crafts from the French government.
A returned New Zealand soldier finds war era prices and a 12 percent sales tax erode his $300 budget for home furnishings. He notes that government aid via gratuity and loans is offset by high taxes, leaving a quarter of the war gratuity absorbed by taxation as he compares 1939 catalog prices. The piece angles at socialist taxation and Canadian currency references.
In Mitchell Ontario Fred Mitchell, a 35 year local businessman, reports a large 800 pound granite tombstone valued at 100 dollars was stolen from his yard, marking a rare theft in the area.
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