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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 24, 1946
Page
3
A homemaker focused column offers soup making guidance using leftover vegetables bones and stock plus tips to use honey and bread recipes. It includes reader questions on crystallized honey cake failures and bread making with whole wheat.
A writer muses on parts of the day that bring happiness from morning chores to evening quiet. She admits mail time is her favorite moment, noting anticipation when letters arrive and the joy of human contact through correspondence.
Bedbugs, though mainly seen as a peat to jiaan, affect poultry houses as well. They hide in cracks and crevices during the day and feed at night, laying up to 200 eggs per female. Young bugs resemble adults but are paler and can live months without a meal. Life cycle from egg to adult takes six weeks or longer. A simple control method is spraying cracks and crevices with creosote or crude petroleum, repeated after about ten days if needed.
Thermopolis Wyoming report recalls a visitor who learns of 4000 head of cattle on a nearby ranch and asks who milks them, a joke attributed to Ken Byerly editor of the Thermopolis Independent Record.
Delegates from 19 nations gathered at Mackinac Island Michigan for the World Assembly on Moral Re-armament vowing to push revolutionary teamwork in their countries. Leaders from Britain Europe and Asia outlined plans to apply the program to unemployment delinquency labor disputes and civic unrest focusing on a change of heart and honest debate over material change.
A viewpoints piece questions J B Priestley ideals on production for use rather than profit. The author argues price signals reflect machine use and argues profit acts as a quality and incentive gauge, warning that replacing profit could reduce value and dollars received.
London reports wartime toy shortages dampen Christmas cheer for children who fear Santa’s displeasure. Quotas rise but materials remain scarce. 10 percent of plastic toys go to home use, with the rest exported, delaying relief for British stores.
Warwick England councilor A Paulie warned against class based burial areas at Warwic k Cemetery noting delays with first class tele phones and urging fairness. N Forbes argued some cemetery parts are nicer and those choosing them should pay extra.
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