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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1947
Page
3
The article discusses immigrant cooks adapting to Canadian kitchens by building vocabularies and filing recipes in a card index. It outlines methods to classify menus, organize recipes by category, and store them with dividers. It provides sample recipes including Canadian Meat Loaf and Upside-Down Bread Pudding with steps and yields.
A diary recounts family visits, truck mishaps at the Post Office, milk deliveries stuck in a lane, and the writer’s enjoyment of Marguerite Steen’s The Sun eem Undoing. Reflections touch on race, peace, and the Royal Family’s African ties as a backdrop to 12th century slave trade.
A Sunday school lesson on Jesus as the Good Shepherd cites John 10 11 18. It emphasizes Jesus as door to salvation, security, and pasture, contrasting true shepherds with thieves, and urges personal faith and obedience.
The Dominion Entomological Laboratory in Vineland Ontario released a spray calendar for nursery stock covering apples, apple seedlings, plums, pears, sweet and sour cherries, Marion stock peaches, currants and gooseberries with a Paisan bait recipe for pest control.
William Clayton of the Bank of Montreal urges readers to consider personal loans repaid in twelve monthly installments at about 27 cents per month per 100 borrowed. Larger or smaller amounts available for longer or shorter terms at proportional costs, designed for quick cash in emergencies. Clayton and accountant Hall offer assistance in personal financing.
The Village of Acton council will consider a by law to stop up and close the plowing lane between Lot A and Lots 23 and 8 on plan 192 from Guelph Street to the plan boundary. The lane would be conveyed to Beardmore and Co Limited. Notice is given under Municipal Act sections 495 and 498. Dated January 31 in Acton Ontario. Leatherland, Municipal Clerk.
Series of archaic notes references to scripture about the shepherd and sheep, life sacrifice, and unity of believers. Mentions verses and doctrinal points on voluntary sacrifice and obedience to the Father’s will. Includes stray phrases about government, wife, and income context.
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