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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
16
This page shares multiple doughnut recipes and prep tips, including Never forget to scald milk and yeast steps for Dutch style doughnuts. It lists batter ratios with eggs sugar and flour, plus shaping and frying guidance and several related notes on making crullers and pastries. It also includes reader questions on boiling lima beans and poaching eggs with vinegar and a request for Scotch fruit bar recipe.
A diary style reflection from Ginger Farm details a chaotic day washing hens selling poultry, domestic chores, and misadventures with a breeding machine, while contrasting small trials with broader worries about war, rain, and the promise of communication through radio and letters. The author notes gratitude amid daily vexations and urges thinking of greater issues beyond personal annoyances.
Weather turned harsh in October with a month of cold, and the Masquerade Parade in Arton and Mattowe’en offers 31 prizes. Waterloo Items Convention attended by Memre Hill Moore and G A Dilla. UFO and UFW0 monthly meeting at Mr. R Linham’s home. Stratford to Toronto freight derailed near Malton. ten cattle cars, 50 slaughtered. butcher crews rushed to scene. Obituaries note Praces Law, aged beyond, at Guelph General Hospital. Stewart family notices at Stone marked by October deaths and engagements.
A brief, readable item from Peterborough describes a hunter near Gilhay who spotted two birds on a fence and shot them, bagging both in one day. No names or dates are clear from the fragment.
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