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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1950
Page
4
Vintage kitchen notes offer savoury potato salad cottage roll and rhubarb pineapple desserts for summer picnics with detailed steps. The issue also features a Question of the Week symposium on municipal provincial and federal force coordination and police reform debates in Manitoba.
The Ginger Farm Chronicle notes a wet spell delaying harvests with wheat sprouting in fields and oats unmown. It discusses potato quality, consumer concerns, and calls for farmers to focus on quality, efficiency, and resilience amid economic pressures.
A dense listing shows professionals and services in Acton including Dr W G C Kenney physician and surgeon office in Symon Block and Mr Tom Hewson Georgetown representative for Hew Office Canada. The Victor B Rumley Funeral Home and F G Oakes V S B V Sc veterinary surgeon are noted. A timetable details daylight saving time coach departures east and west from Acton with numerous hourly and flag stop remarks. The piece ends with a reflective question on progress and discomfort.
The Financial Post reports UP Department store sales up 3 percent in June from a year earlier with gains in all regions except Saskatchewan and the Maritimes. The largest regional increase, 9 percent, occurred in British Columbia. Saskatchewan showed 43 percent and the Maritimes 4 percent gains.
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