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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1952
Page
14
The writer plans a five day break with a partner on a farm near Ottawa. He details holiday prep, obtaining glasses, a London trip memory, canning season, alfalfa field timing, and threshing. He cites Canadas first cotton mill at Sherbrooke in 1845 and discusses machinery costs versus manual labor in harvest.
More than 1000 bandsmen including the Lome Scots will compete at the Canadian National Exhibition Music Day on August 28. The festival draws groups from Swift Current and other centers with 30 bands across seven classes vying for honors on a day celebrating Canadian band music history and development.
A fashion note previews fall dresses updated by bright cummerbunds. Cummerbunds can be bought or homemade from bright material, and even scarves can be converted with simple stitches and a dome fastener. The illustrated basic dress adapts well to a cummerbund and readers are urged to get ideas from fashion pictures.
After a severe air raid in London, rescuers find a man in a bathtub amid the rubble. He mutters that he cannot understand. when asked, he recalls pulling a plug and the house collapsing. Separately, South African farming land values rose over 300 percent in ten years.
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