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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 18, 1946
Page
4
Household routines, cleaning plans, and appliance care guidance from Mrs T. Includes steps for efficient chores like laundry, garden time, vacuum upkeep, cord protection, and safe handling tips. Also answers common kitchen questions on cookies dumplings and heat.
Sare Murphy, founder of a Cedartown Georgia orphanage, has housed nearly fifty children since 1920 and dreams of expanding with dormitories and a local college. She earned a $1,000 gift and was praised as a community neighbor for her long effort to educate and care for Negro children.
K E Kidd of the Royal Ontario Museum notes ancient Tolteca in Mexico practiced periodic refinishing of temple pyramids as a religious rite. They rebuilt stone facings on pyramids every several decades to honor the gods, with a Toltec city model in the museum showing a pyramid redecorated seven times.
A Canadian joke from Saskatoon cites the idea of splitting atoms to compare the feats of restaurant cooks who supposedly divide a pound of butter into 3,000,000 pieces, joking about atomic breakthroughs and kitchen skill.
A farm diary recounts a week of chores from morning stove fires to a train delivering poultry. The narrator struggles with a broken grate, upgrades to an electric broodery, and a contrasting generation gap. Weather clears to hint of spring as daffodils bloom.
The Boy Scouts of Canada have sent over $600 worth of garden tools and supplies in recent weeks to Scout troops in Great Britain. The aid aids garden work and the drive to provide more food for hungry Britons.
At the Southern Forest Experimental Station in Lake City Florida scientists report a method to increase resin yield by applying sulfuric acid to pine tree wounds. The process, tested with a squirting device, boosted gum production up to two thousand percent in some trials and could reshape naval stores work in turpentine factories.
The report notes landed car costs in New Zealand nearly double 1938 levels due to higher general prices and a sales tax surge. It cites an American study on corporate efficiency and quotes Henry Fort Jr on factory costs, noting Tudor models rising from 512 in 1941 to 962 by 1942, highlighting consumer tax burdens.
Rapid City Manitoba letter asks when frost danger ends after 39 years in the province. The writer seeks a clear part of the year to start planting and asks for practical guidance on the Manitoba growing season.
Visitors gaze into the pink calcite Crystal Cave reconstructed from Sterlingbush crystals at the Royal Ontario Museum. The window view lets viewers watch color changes from rosy pink to mauve on walls ceilings and floors as calcite crystals form in underground solutions. The cave features a crystal weighing over four hundred pounds.
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