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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1944
Page
3
A long excerpted homemaker column offers detailed practices for sorting washing by color and fabric, pre soaking, machine loading two thirds full, and using water softeners. It covers stain removal, rinsing with multiple water changes, starching and ironing avoidance for towels and sheets, and step by step care for cleaning fabrics from jerseys to feathers.
A Ginger Farm diary column mixes domestic tidying with reflections on wartime roots and a private dump heap saga. The writer recalls a boy’s school letter from 1934 and a daughter’s nursery diary, while joking about hidden rebel histories and farm chores. An overseas BBC broadcast about a bomber in Arabia adds distant adventure to the domestic hum.
A tom cat disturbed by cock pheas was discovered along the torrent, out of tie.
Public auction of Graham Bros farm stock implements and real estate at Graham Homestead Lot 2 Concession 7 Eramosa Everton Line one mile west of Creemore Comerson. Includes Shorthorn cattle Holstein Jersey cows bulls calves and 200 acre farm with dwelling bank barn and outbuildings. Cash sale day December 5 with no reserve due to ill health.
Hollywood writer Marion Spitzer, famed for romantic stories, tailors love scenes for scripts while working on The Dolly Sisters and an O Henry bioplay. She aims for honest, believable scenes that avoid embarrassment and underplay strong moments like Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. Her two sons disapprove of her modern film choices.
London a CP report notes the rat damage to British imports valued at £50,000,000 annually. Parliamentary statistician P. J. Noel-Baker told a Commons shipping debate of a single inexpensive process that could freeing a ship from rats, insects in holds and crew quarters.
SAINT JOHN, N. B. The city council orders expanded customs and facilities at the port for immediate postwar use and directs construction to begin at once.
South Africa welcomed British seamen as Admiral Andrew Cunningham addressed Union Navy Week on BBC short wave. He lauded the South African Anti-Submarine Group and recalled his twenty years of Mediterranean service. He won the DSO in Gallipoli and rose to admiral in 1941. He is brother of General Alan Cunningham.
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