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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
20
Homemakers share a detailed process for canning vegetables like beans corn peas and beets using pressure cookers and hot water baths. The text covers jar selection sterilization filling timing and cooling plus specific steps for preparing vegetables and tomato juice canning. It also notes improvised equipment tips and safety checks for preserving foods during wartime.
The Ginger Farm recounts a busy week finishing hay and cutting wheat by tractor bound to a binder. The writer notes pride in a well stocked barn, weather worries, and humorous family scenes amid farm chores. They also discuss experimenting with DDT use and reflections on modernization.
The piece describes Pinkie elevators near Regina as key grain hubs in Saskatchewan. It notes farmers in the Finkle district ship about 152000 bushels seasonally, with revenue around 165000 dollars at 1.08 a bushel. Elevator agent Hob Curcle, a Scotsman from Glasgow, has worked there four years.
Duke University researchers report that puppies fed a diet missing biotin folic acid and pantothenate developed paralysis, which reversed within hours to days after vitamin supplementation. Biotin showed the fastest recovery, with dogs regaining movement after injections and improved feeding. The finding suggests nutrition plays a key role in a mysterious canine paralysis and warrants further study.
Regina based writer with versatility asks Saskatchewan Provincial Treasurer C M Fines for work. He floats ideas ranging from a liquor store position to becoming Chief of a reserve.
A Canadian with high military rank returns from Germany with a contrast between German deference to power and Canadian cynicism toward politicians. He argues Canadians must awaken to responsibility in a free state, urging political maturity and honest governance. Bud Percy of Napanee saves a drowning boy, reviving him with CPR learned in Scouts, aided by Dr Blair.
Large families are in order among the ruffed grouse. The bird, once decimated across Canada by periodical declines roughly every decade, has shown a comeback as eggs per nest average higher than the species long-term average. Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum note possible factors in the revival amid scarce conditions.
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