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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
6
Betty Barclay shares home made ice cream ideas using store bought pudding packs for chocolate vanilla or butterscotch flavors. Three freezing methods include automatic refrigerator quick freezing ice and coarse salt and a home freezer with milk and cream for about one quart.
Inset prints on a white sharkskin jacket worn by Gloria Stuart showcase red and white detailing designed by Gwen Wakeling. Fall silhouettes favor straight lines over flares with slim boxes and camel hair coats.
Toronto Maple Leafs undergo shifts with John Burns as playing manager and Dan Howley seeking major league outfield help. Despite early moves not lifting them from last in the league, the home stand and upcoming road stretch show fight. Howley contacts clubs for right handed batters to bolster the lineup while left handed hitters have dominated the order. Maple Leaf Stadium hosts Syracuse Jersey City Baltimore and Montreal with twilight doubleheaders drawing crowds amid pace of July schedule.
A voluadic man testified in an important case as reporters strained to keep up. He chided them with the plea not to write so fast, insisting he could not keep pace with their questions and pace of the proceedings.
Central Press Canadien outlines tree protection when building driveways and recommends rip-rap stone to cover roots within six feet of a trunk. It notes rise-based extension, nicotine sulphate spray for shrubs, and water lily transplant tips. Disease control for delphiniums via Bordeaux mixture is advised.
Madame Francois of Paris runs a bird refuge from her house with a third floor window sill for small birds and a fourth floor opening kept stocked. Supporters and passersby bring injured birds, as the widows stay open to allow the birds to leave when ready.
A column from The Free Press outlines weekly discussion items for women readers under Qurʼ and Nurse Elkram hints. It notes moral maxims for each day July 14–20 and facts about Canada’s National Park system including Banff and visitor counts for 1937.
Clergymen's wives recount a porch blind theft case at a home on Queen Street. A regular, who denied guilt, learns the missing blind appeared in a second hand store. He offers 15 cents to recover it and resumes weekly breakfasts, restoring his former meal entitlement.
A Toronto school teacher speaks with a relief inspector about a pupil’s finances. The dialogue mentions a 400 cent item costing 73 cents and a weekly payment of five cents. The girl’s balance rises to fourteen dollars, with the grandmother also on relief and having bought school concert tickets.
Waide Chronicles recounts selling a quarrelsome rooster amid farm weather and haying. A son’s exam worries ease after results. garden work proceeds, weather stays hot, stray rain hints, and a potato bug season is noted with a heavy shower.
Two thieves stroll along the road when one keeps glancing at his watch. The other taunts him but the first explains he watches to ensure the watch remains on his wrist. The quip ends with a wary joke about the timing and the instrument's presence.
A magistrate questions a traumatized witness about threats. The witness repeats the accused said he would kill the witness with a weapon described as “the whitebash the yard with your blood.”
Canadian fascists wrapped up their first annual convention in Kingston Ontario amid police efforts to prevent clashes with anti fascists The group adopted a new name the National Unity Party of Canada Adrian Arcand of Montreal was named first national leader and Joseph Farr of Toronto named National Organizing head.
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