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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 03, 1951
Page
4
A 1920s style bridal luncheon features an indoor garden tea with pastel shells desserts, nosegays, and crystal service. Menu highlights include rhubarb cocktails, chicken and almond salad, special potato salad, improvised coffee, and a chiffon cake dessert. The piece notes the origin of the word salary from salarium meaning salt money.
Cerealist A G Kusch warns frost damage in 1950 across the prairie provinces reduced germination in oats and barley, with wheat often germinating better. He urges testing seed, increasing seeding rate as germination drops, and sowing shallow to reach moisture, noting many damaged oats and barley fail to emerge or survive.
A fragment recounts warmer days bringing birds and swallows back, daffodils blooming, and frogs chorus in a swamp while farmers anticipate seeding and better feed. Weather shifts, canned-facts mix with personal anecdotes of trips, a bus mishap, and reflections on daylight saving.
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