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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
3
Homemakers learn orderly steps for preserving vegetables including beans corn peas and beets with pressure cooker use urged for safety. The article details preparation sterilization time charts for beans beets corn and tomatoes and offers methods for heat processing and testing sealed jars.
The Ginger Farm diary recalls finishing hay and wheat stock in, noting the binder innovation and family labor. It reflects farm life stresses, holiday dreams, and a shift to discussing DDT insecticide and other modern inventions.
Regina region reports a grain elevator at Pinkie near the CPR main line. Agent Hoh Curcle runs it with one or two grain cars and doors as local farmers from the Finkle district ship around 152 000 bushels seasonally at about 3 108 a bushel generating substantial turnover. Open since 1922 the elevator saves farmers time and money while Curcle, a Glasgow native, mirrors prairie life and ties to Regina.
Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine report that puppies fed a faulty diet lacking biotin and other vitamins developed paralysis within hours. Administration of nicotinic and folate forms, plus biotin, reversed symptoms in a single day, suggesting nutritional deficiency as the cause and stressing vitamin supplementation over feed additives.
A Regina resident sent suggestions to Saskatchewan Provincial Treasurer C M Fines seeking work. The ideas ranged from a job in a liquor store to becoming a local Indian Chief in a reservation.
A Canadian of high military rank recently returned from Germany contrasts German reverence for political power with Canadian civic cynicism during the election campaign. He argues Canadians lack political maturity and responsibility, urging a solid middle ground between two extremes. Bud Perry of Napanee saved a drowning boy, Harvey, by diving into the Napanee River and performing artificial respiration before rescuers arrived.
The text discusses ruffed grouse population cycles with scarce breeding and periodic declines about every decade. It cites observations from the Royal Ontario Museum and the period’s impact on egg counts, suggesting scarcity prompts a slower recovery and complex natural dynamics.
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