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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 28, 1949
Page
3
The article offers practical tips for preparing fish at home including handling to reduce odour, storing cooked flakes in jars, and using fish in gravies, soufflés, salads, and sandwiches. It lists Nutri-Thrift Menus with haddock and salmon dishes and provides a detailed stuffed haddock recipe with ingredients and steps.
A Financial Post article warns about rising cheque fraud schemes hitting banks and stores. It cites bored payees signatures forged cheques and non existent accounts, noting government cheques and war service funds as favored targets and naming merchants as frequent victims.
Council accepted a contract valued around 1000 for road work to Consalidated Sand and Gravel Co of Toronto after five bids were opened at a Monday meeting. Also noted are local obituaries and scattered community notices from Georgetown.
An extended excerpt argues that fear of insecurity erodes daring and initiative. It cites Herbert Hoover and contemporary leaders urging youth to pursue risk, entrepreneurship, and personal effort over dependence on government security. The piece frames security as antithetical to progress and praises self reliance and exploration.
A memoir excerpt recounts life on Ginger Farm with a family dwindling from ten to three, late dinners, clock alarms, and the chaos of daily chores. It notes potato prep, baking, and the mood of an anxious harvest day while weaving in reflections on time and memory.
A flash fire razed a farm residence on Mr AT Palme’s property, leaving Erin Stepelaota and occupants Mero and Mee Bln Hlugglis and three children displaced. The event follows a social gathering hosted by Mrs Win Sanders for her daughter Florence Mary’s wedding to James Saye of Acton.
Canada provided substantial wartime and postwar support to Britain totaling 6.48 billion dollars. The package included securities repatriation, a 700 million loan in 1942, purchase of British war plant interests, outright grants, mutual aid, and a 2.25 billion loan after the war with portions drawn to date. The record notes ongoing postwar aid and the shift from wartime emergency measures as trade and credit policies evolved.
Notice to creditors and others of the estate of THOMAS DAVIDSON, deceased, of Feggus township in DIATTON County, states a date for filing proofs of claims. The undersigned executor Charles Mc Dawnsdsc announces the sixth day of December as the deadline after which the estate will be distributed.
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