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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
11
An informal guide promotes outdoor meals with simple cooking by a boy scout. Recipes include pickled beets and watermelon rind, plus quick notes on improvised open-fire cooking and leaving parks clean. The column also critiques price controls, hotel rates, and historical income data.
Cartoon caption shows an Englishman and a boy sharing corn on the cob with a waiter Walter present. The Englishman requests more filling as he enjoys eating, capturing a humorous domestic moment.
Edmonton farmer E. Vo Violmes brings agroborne spraying to Western farms. He operates a cabin plane to combat weeds, charging per acre with a set spray rate and dusting operations described as part of his new venture.
An exhausted worker at a small shop prompts the manager to propose a humiliating placard. The plan suggests hanging a sign on her desk reading You sleep this way too when you have trouble staying awake, revealing a hostile, punitive approach to staff.
The writer reflects on an early harvest with wheat ready and grain cut, noting tractors aiding binders and shorter harvest windows. Family life with Daughter and Betty Stain, Joy at nursing work, Netty’s mining camp tales, and travel interruptions color a season of work and travel constraints.
Helena Montana CP report says Mrs BU Osborne protected her husband’s mink ranch by firing at a brown bear attempting to break into the pens. She said she stayed calm until she saw the bear’s size and then became anxious.
Victoria CP reports Piper Wallace a 150 pound St Bernard retires as Canadas army mascot of the Canadian Scottish with official dog tags ribbons and medals. He served beside Staff Piper Wee Andy McGeorge in England where he became a symbol of Canadian doghood and obeys commands beyond the King's Regulations.
A teacher reads a tall tale about a man who swam a river three times before breakfast. Johnny giggles and ponders why the swimmer did not loop back to retrieve clothes, while Noah suggests the feat was possible yet asks why four trips were not attempted.
W A S Beatty of Makaaroff Manitoba has designed a grain cleaning machine called the blanket cleaner. It separates wild oats from coarse grain using a revolving blanket that tips at angles to let clean grain pass through while oats adhere and are swept away. The Dauphin Manitoba Federation of Agriculture endorsed seeking a manufacturer after trying the device.
Notice to creditors of the estate of Matthew Job late of Nassagaweye Township Halton farmer who died about June 12 1946. Creditors must send claims to the undersigned solicitor by August 11 otherwise the estate will be distributed without regard to claims. George F Elliott Ontario solicitor for the estate Milton July 10 1946
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