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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1950
Page
3
Homemakers learn safe use of steam pressure canners for low acid vegetables and a charted guide for precooking filling sealing and processing at 10 pounds. Also notes on tomatoes canning without a pressure canner with oven methods and common seal tests.
Funeral Home and heated ambulance service listed with 45 years of operation. Night and day availability noted. Travel by coach from Acton for daylight saving time eastbound routes and multiple daily times with some holidays and weekend exceptions.
Fragmentary CN rail timetable notices list daily and limited service times with inconsistencies and flagstop notes. The readable items show varying departures at Georgetown and other points with uncertain days and times.
A farmer recalls old slow haying methods versus the modern quick baling process using tractors and balers. He contrasts family participation and daily toil with today’s efficiency, noting the loss of romance and the joy of field work as farming shifts to speed and mechanization.
The narrator, while working quickly for pleasure on a home farm, reports spotting a bird unknown for days. A detailed description follows, naming a yellow bellied sapsucker like a robin with red throat and a yellow buff wing, noting the thrill of identifying a rare species.
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