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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1951
Page
3
A Home Science style column recalls Grandmother’s biscuit baking and shares modern tips for scones and baking powder biscuits. It lists ingredients and steps for dough handling, chilling, cutting, and baking, plus reader questions on common biscuit issues and substitutions.
The note details housecleaning routines in two rooms with furniture rearrangements and moving heavy items using rollers. It warns against risky methods like chairs on tables for washing ceilings and includes observations about women’s tendency to rearrange furniture and the impracticality of shifting heavy objects without help.
A Milton sale at the Massey Harris Garage on Main St on Tuesday March 27 1951 at 2 pm offers a wide range of farm machinery including tractors, plows, discs, manure spreaders, grain drills, corn equipment, a Clarke engine, a De Laval cream separator, a coal electric range and more. Terms are cash with clerk. items sold as is to highest bidder to clear space for new gear.
Fashion note predicts coats will define Easter wear with a full length fleece coat. It highlights a gracefully tailored back, molded shoulders, and a singing collar signaling discreet smartness. The coat is praised for warmth, comfort, and durable wear across seasons and years.
A narrator recalls sorting a neglected attic box containing a doll and small mementos. While discarding some items she reflects on sentimentality and a daughter’s remembered childhood through a tiny mechanical toy and a cherished poem. The piece muses on maternal attachment to objects from the past.
A note promoting in-between meals of milk fruit juice and oatmeal cookies for school children. It advises to avoid interfering with regular meals and suggests serving plain or flavored dairy and fruit drinks.
Public auction conducted by Hindley and Elliott at Mrs L King residence Nassagaweya on March 24 at 2 pm. Household items include bed dresser chairs tables stove rugs and utensils. real estate offered with no reserve bid, one third acre property with stone house garage and garden on main county road. Terms cash day of sale. possession April 1.
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