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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1932
Page
6
A lyrical 19th century fragment describes morning light transforming trees with dew gem like lace. The speaker notes frost kissed branches and dew pearls, praising nature as artist weaving beauty across the landscape.
A household guide presents coffee based recipes for cookies and mocha sauces. It includes COFFEE FOR COOKIES, COFFEE GINGER COOKIES, orange and lemon peel flavoring, and a basic shake method for emulsions. Also suggests coffee as a sauce flavoring and daily menu variety ideas.
Recipe style notes describe making coffee extract with ground coffee sugar and water, then boiling, straining, and storing with vanilla. Also details a mocha sauce for ice cream using milk coffee infusion sugar cornstarch salt and heat. A sensational asthma cure ad follows claiming relief via Dr Kellogg's remedy with dealer and wholesaler access.
Amos Palmer schemes to lure visitors with a crying cave on his Walton farm causing neighbors to question the road change and moral stakes. Harriet Tibbetts disguises herself to test the tale, while the sheriff and district attorney expose a profitable fake tied to a newspaper relative.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for cuts bruises burns scalds rheumatism and sciatica in people and for horse ailments and injuries. It claims the remedy has gained many loyal users over fifty years and treats various pains in both house and stable.
A. S. Frank in The Yorkshire Post notes that traditional trades such as thatching and dry walling are vanishing. Once family crafts passed from father to son, skilled wallers and drainers disappear, leaving repairs to untrained hands and dulling the rural landscape.
A Canadian Government Bureau report shows 44,620,736 persons and vehicles crossed the US Canada border in 1930, averaging 85 daily cross per minute. Motor vehicles numbered 8,045,519 with 23,552,203 pedestrians and passengers, mainly Detroit Windsor crossings. The Niagara River routes also saw heavy use. horse drawn transport is declining.
The text notes that tourists in Florida may not shoot alligators, describing the animal as carnivorous and capable of harming livestock and people. It states the gator is protected due to its status as a state attraction and scavenger, with many slain annually for hides in remote areas. It also mentions numerous alligator farms showing the creatures to visitors.
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