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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1934
Page
6
A reflective blend notes a 1884 Brampton snapshot with a warning about youth and disobedience. It recalls temperance debates, civic duties, church building, lamp lighting, snow, railway tickets, Easter as a holiday, and local mishaps. It closes with a farmer’s fatal straw-cutting accident and a census of Acton population and school.
A lively verse hymn from the Acton Hockey Chorus celebrates local players and staff. The piece toasts coaches, forwards, defensemen, and supporters including Father McBride, praising their spirit and booster efforts for the rink and future seasons.
A cooking school article offers gelatine dessert methods with lemon orange and coffee jellies. Instructions provide exact proportions for sugar water juice and rind and explain turning plain jelly into a sponge by beating as it thickens. Continued on page seven.
An advertisement extols Kellogg's ALL-BRAN as a high bulk cereal to prevent constipation. It claims fiber absorbs moisture to form a soft mass that clears wastes, notes vitamin B and iron, and suggests two tablespoons daily with milk or in baked goods. Made by Kellogg in London Ontario.
An old diary fragment recounts a weekly sequence of humorous misadventures and small town incidents. It includes Emmy’s letter about a Navy enlistment, a drunken incident and vandalism, gravity talk on Earth, and schoolyard gossip about ham sandwiches. The entry ends with a medical ad for Miller's Worm Fondera.
Fragmentary ad copy asserts Douglas Egyptian Meat provides immediate relief for burns sores and felins stops bleeding prevents poisoning and aids sore throat and quinsy claimed as a versatile remedy across multiple conditions.
A speaker laments a partner’s cheap trip and a lack of buyers. The store is quiet with blinds down as stock-taking proceeds under the Bankruptcy Trustee who presents a full page advertisement.
A mixed listing shows Harold Nash Farrer M A Barrister Solicitor Notary Public and conveyances services on Mill Street Acton with mortgage loans. Includes dental surgeon P W Pearen and veterinary and bookbinding services in Acton Georgetown and Wyndham Street Guelph Ontario. Hours vary with appointments available evenings.
Local service offers lettering and inscriptions for cemetery monuments with quotations upon request. Clients are urged to place orders now to ensure weather suitable for installation.
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