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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
3
A vintage home cooking guide reviews how to preserve color and nutrients in vegetables. It warns against soda, favors baking steaming and steam botting, and stresses minimal water and careful handling to avoid sogginess. The text offers specific recipes and serving tips.
A 1950 outlook from the Derynian Field Crops Insect Laboratory predicts a poor cutworm year in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Farmers are advised to leave summer fallowed fields undisturbed in August and early September to reduce moth activity and avoid disturbing crusted, weed-free soils.
A reflective piece chronicles family life on the prairie with a daughter who recycles scraps into warm quilts and blankets from old socks and sweaters. The narrator notes practical jokes, pets, and small daily events alongside a dated note on Canadian cheque totals rising from 1938 to 1948.
The text argues that middle age can still learn and adapt with effort. It promotes practical retirement planning and life insurance as a means to enjoy comforts in later years, including homes and travel, and challenges the idea that age prevents education or progress.
Burlington accelerates dial phone installations under W T Davidson and crew. A junior boys and girls band and drill team from Warren Ohio will tour the city arriving Friday August 36th for one week as guests of the local junior band. Elgin Corlett coordinates the inter band visit while Olsen and Johnson entertain Toronto audiences nearby.
Oakville work crews unearth a cedar water source for a new pool and swmming club facility amid planned street lighting and a housing subdivision draft. Utilities confirm power and water upgrades on west and east sides as council approves subdivision plans near the lak shore highway. a new mouse bait product from a New York company is also reported.
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