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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1952
Page
7
A diary told by Jane Lyons a 15 year old autograph hunter who skips school to chase stage and screen stars like Charlie Chaplin Frederick March and Lawrence Olivier. The breezy teen era tale charms readers with riotous adventures and fresh humor perfect for summer reading.
Advice on securing homes before trips and packing light. Includes stain removal methods for cotton shirts scotch on mauve dresses chocolate ice cream on gabardine and blueberry stains on white wool with guidance to use chlorine bleach hydrogen peroxide carbon tetrachloride and professional cleaners.
Poem depicts tree tops waving against the sky with Lacey green branches. It speaks of longing, calm mind, and faith guiding upward through life’s stress toward Heaven’s peace, attributed to Clara Royce Campbell.
A woman orders five ice cream cones in a small shop. The proprietor makes her place payment first, then retrieves the cones and returns change multiple times, joking that the setup saves time and effort with the extra handling. The exchange ends with a smile at the clever ruse.
In 1950 across Canada the Department of Agriculture plant products division conducted extensive analyses to ensure seed, fertilizer, and pesticide quality. Purity and germination tests totaled nearly 60 000 and 99 353 respectively, with numerous referee and international trade studies.
A new Braille printing process by Britain’s National Institute for the Blind and London engineer J Groak uses an electronic device to emboss raised dots on both sides of thin paper. It squeezes plastic inks through a stencil to form Braille without a traditional press.
Britain's Ministry of Supply uses nearly human dummies to test parachute equipment. Each figure costs about $400 and features a steel spine and limbs, perforated steel chest, rubber flesh, canvas skin, and a wooden head.
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