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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1954
Page
7
This diary entry recalls a five minute morning rain that refreshed a brown landscape. It notes early green peas, wheat cutting, and the stress of drought on farmers facing high costs and low wheat prices. It contrasts young and older farmers selling out with land needed for roads or seaway and ends with farm life updates including new cows and hens.
The phantom line J C and Mainsonneuve in Montreal East, chartered in 1909 by Grand Trunk and later absorbed by Canadian National, has folded after 45 years. The project began as a branch from Lachine to access Maisonneuve industry, but postwar government takeovers made it redundant and the corporate entity was finally dissolved.
Historians puzzled as carpenters repairing the old court house discover a large bronze bell still crated on the roof. A works engineer explains the bell once rang in the tower until the mechanism fell through to the sheriff’s office about 15 years ago. A narrative about a red hen in a farm setting and Mitchie White with a near-miss with a mower closes this clipped rural recollection.
The article notes circus dangers and routines from train wrecks to tents blowing down and fires. It highlights Kelly’s photos from age three to his current appearance and includes his two sons, with clown make up and playful drawings.
Canadian Press reports on home economists in the agricultural department consumer section testing and rating new recipes to boost use of homegrown foods. The piece describes the Canada’s Kitchen program with large test kitchens, equipment, taste panels, and projects on meats vegetables and rhubarb sherbet, noting past potato studies and challenges with iodized salt and asparagus.
Citizens of Summerside PEI observed a strange sphere hover for hours as an RCAF plane investigated. The object was identified as a United States weather observation balloon.
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