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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
3
Back to school clothing tips for women and girls focus on color fastness and easy care fabrics like wool jersey and rayon. Advice covers outfits, coordinating colors, and practical items for campus life along with sewing tips and laundry practices. Also includes several vintage recipes for corn pudding and canning.
Practical notes on cooking, preserving, cleaning and organizing. Instructions cover heating, sealing foods, rubber goods storage, clothing use of shoe bags, and care of brushes and polishes. Includes cautions about drying and folding, with occasional unclear phrases reflecting OCR errors.
Ginger Farm notes a near miss when a beam broke during a harvest load, causing extra work but no injuries. The column reflects on community events from the week, including a movie, local happenings, and family comings and goings, with plans for travel and routines.
On a 900 acre farm near Calgary the Earl of Egmont cultivates registered seed wheat barley and oats with about 50 bushels per acre. He added a hired man this year after wartime self sufficiency and continues stock raising on his Priddis ranch. He values clean land moisture and intensive cultivation as keys to farming success in Alberta.
A Canadian report states that an imported 'Lalian' bee strain infiltrated Squamish, altering the local stingless bees. C. B. Gooderham, an apiarist, challenged the district to sting him, noting that foreign bees allegedly conquered the native honey makers and left only traces of their stingless lineage.
The Scene argues that higher paid workers' strike demands threaten lower income Canadians. It warns wage increases could depress overall prices and reduce real wages for fixed income and low earners, risking unemployment and slower production without solid data on affected groups. The piece urges government study to avoid destructive appeasement.
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