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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1951
Page
3
A vintage household advice piece explains safe paraffin use and water bath methods for sealing jams and jellies. It covers choosing fruits, avoiding mixed underripe fruit, monitoring pectin tests, cooking times, straining, sugar ratios, and applying a paraffin wax seal with tips on jar safety and testing jellying point.
The diary reflects farm events including wet weather delaying hay, milk prices and butter fat trends, Hessian fly in wheat, pastures improving, cherry trees and orchard grass, mosquitoes during cherry picking, a neighbor gifting blueberries, and musings on growing blueberries in local hills.
A reflective column touches on youthful fashion with practical blouse notes and colorful outfits. It shifts to ponder the Scarpment’s name and a Morning scene of sun, rain, and a farmer's day, concluding with a meditation on focus and weather impacting work.
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