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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1951
Page
3
A home recipe page outlines fresh fruit dishes for meals including a blue berry breakfast dish a plum cobbler and a frozen berry cream dessert. It provides measurements and step by step instructions for preparing these fruit based treats with tips for oven temperatures and chilling.
A reflective piece on preserving early apples through canning to extend flavor into summer. It covers making applesauce from peeled fruit, dealing with splatter and burns, and cautions about seal quality. The narrative shifts to farm chores, a bustling household, and small mishaps during hay cutting and cooking.
Dr Gordon Bell in Health magazine argues that alcoholism and related secondary addictions affect more people than tuberculosis and poliomyelitis combined. He notes most cases are preventable and linked to stress, business life, and social class, with many addicts reaching addiction after extended alcohol exposure.
In a House of Commons statement Phil Noel-Baker, UK Minister of Fuel and Power, said miners in the first 22 weeks of 1951 produced about 63 million tons of coal. He estimated that the extra shifts would yield well over 20 million extra manhours in 1951.
A casual reflection describes a slim summer suit in rayon with striped details and the appeal of light fabrics for cooler evenings and early mornings. The narrator muses on rides, bees, clover, and hay scent, then recounts loading logs and a bumble bee nest, ending with a light joke about partner’s tractor and lack of horses.
The author urges a state clothing program regulated by class, extending the wartime WPTB order to all garments from morning coats to wine breakers. Proposals include penalties and inspectors to ensure compliance, with women prosecutions to be heard by female magistrates. The piece toys with satire on social conformity and sumptuary laws.
In the first quarter of 1951 Canadian manufacturers sold 13 757 television sets, compared with 2 445 in the same period of 1950. This shows a substantial jump in early demand for home television receivers.
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