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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1938
Page
3
An ad explains excess stomach acid causes common troubles and urges using Vange Salts. It claims the alkaline remedy neutralizes acid quickly, purifies the blood, soothes sore stomach walls, and removes poisonous waste. It promotes Vange Salts at 60 cents a tin and suggests buying now.
A 1910s era health bulletin warns the house fly Musca domestica as a major disease carrier. It details how flies breed in manure and garbage, spread infantile diarrhoea, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery, and outlines community based control methods including manure disposal, heat treatment of piles, borax top-layer applications, garbage incineration, and flyproofing of dwellings.
Ontario banks report wholesale trade little changed with cautious buying. Retail trade fair, seasonal goods affected by lack of sun. Woollens textile mills quiet. hosiery plants busy. knitting mills cutting schedules. Tire industry up slightly. rubber footwear exports down. Fall orders hesitant. shoe manufacturing and tanning dull. Iron and steel holding up. agricultural implements down from April. heavy and light engineering reasonably favorable. Auto and allied industries trimmed. furniture quiet. April gold 220,261 oz value 7,708,785. silver 44,714 oz. First quarter metal output higher year over year, copper price weakness reduced dollar value. May construction contracts 7,359,600 vs 9,982,800 in 1937.
The article notes Canada has spent about 400 million on relief since 1930 plus 130 million in loans to four western provinces. It cites peak relief expenditures in 1936 at 79.5 million, drought area costs near 25 million in the year ending March, and provincial grants declining from 26.3 million in 1936 to 19.5 million in 1938.
Ontario highway accident records show 766 deaths and 13 002 injuries in 1937, with 39 children under four and 118 seniors over 65 among the dead. The piece argues the fatal toll results from human error, not rare cases, and warns even seasoned drivers are at risk if they ignore care and courtesy.
Betty Barclay presents two simple recipes to elevate meals into company repasts. Cottage Cheese with Tomato Jelly Sauce offers a savory, attractive garnish that can be prepared in the morning and served at noon or evening.
A quirky recipe collection urges using strawberries and raspberries in rennet custard and as garnishes. It includes serving ideas with salad gelatin blends, tomato and cottage cheese mixtures, and a berry flavored custard with whipped cream. Snack-ready, chilled desserts and a decorative Fig Newt on the side appear in this period menu fragment.
A vintage biscuit instruction describes making about 18 biscuits with shortening flour baking powder orange rind orange juice milk or water loaf sugar and Sunkist oranges. Form rounds pair two per biscuit with a moistened sugar cube, bake at 450 F for 15 minutes, then glaze with powdered sugar and orange juice.
A playful verse extols smiles as a simple, universal gift. It notes how a single smile can spark reciprocation and kindness, weaving a chain of cheer that travels through people and places. The piece celebrates smiling as a shared, uplifting act.
Exports of fresh apples from Canada to Belgium in 1937 reached about 10 506 quintals, roughly six times the 1936 level. This week’s fairy story notes a boy in town indifferent to whether the school has summer holidays.
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