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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 24, 1946
Page
13
Homemakers seek time and cost saving ideas with soup recipes and stock tips. Instructions mix leftover vegetables, bones, and vegetables to craft creams, pepper pot, and split pea soups. A Q and A section answers honey crystallization and baking questions, plus a CPR promotion notes Crump’s railway appointment.
The writer muses on which part of the day brings happiness to mothers and others in the household. Quiet times, evening routines, radio listening, and mail time are weighed, with a preference for the surprise and connection found in letters from readers.
The article explains bedbugs commonly affect poultry, hiding in cracks by day and feeding at night. Each female lays up to 200 eggs, with nymphs resembling adults but paler, and a six week lifecycle. Control includes spraying cracks with creosote or crude petroleum, repeating after about ten days if needed.
Thermopolis Wyoming editor Ken Byerly recalls a visitor reacting to 6000 cattle with the line Holy Smoke Who milks em all. The note highlights a rustic joke about ranch life and mistaken assumptions about dairy cattle.
Delegates from 19 nations at Mackinac Island push a conference program of revolutionary teamwork to solve industrial and civic problems. Leaders from Britain, Europe, Australia, India, China and South Africa back a safety of democracy through home based leadership and cross border collaboration.
R J Deachman questions J B Priestley’s call for production for use not profit. He argues consumption pays for machinery and that under social harmony price, wages, and profit reflect efficiency and value. Deachman asks how much extra consumers would gain and whether incentive remains in a nonprofit system.
London reports that wartime toy shortages affect British children as Christmas nears. Quotas rise but materials remain scarce, with limited plastic toys produced mainly for export. locals may see some improvement, yet outlook remains tight.
Warwick England councilor discusses providing first and second class burial grounds at Warwick Cemetery. Alderman Forbes argues some cemetery sections are nicer and should be paid for by those who choose them, while councilors deplore social distinctions in burial plots.
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