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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
8
A collection of doughnut making instructions with multiple batters and frying guidance. Includes ratios for yeast doughnuts and crullers, shaping methods, fat recommendations, oil temperatures, and rise times. Also contains brief Q&A notes on boiled lima beans, poaching eggs, and a Scotch fruit bars query.
A farm journal recounts daily chores with hens and washing disrupted by visitors and chores. The narrator reflects on worries, radio talk, Victory Bonds, and gratitude for rain while planning a Toronto trip.
Weather and events reports from October twenty years ago note a month of rainy conditions and a parade with 31 prizes in Acton and Mactowe’en. Other items mention a Bers Convention in Waterloo, a UFC meeting at a third line home, freight derailment near Malton with cattle losses, and hospital notices including a death and a domestic inquiry.
In Peterborough Ontario a hunter bagged two partridges after seeing one perched on a fence and another a few feet away beneath a tree. The brief note records a successful ambush during a hunting outing near Qik igre Hay.
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