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Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Apr 13, 1933

Page

15

Community Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Weddings

Newcastle resident Mrs. Catharine Cullen visits daughter Mrs James Wilds while Norval guest Mrs E Macdonald stays with Miss Isabel Anderson. Numerous locals host and visit over a weekend, including engagements and a Toronto wedding attended by family and friends.

Catharine Cullen Newcastle James “Wilds E. Macdonald Norval Isabel Aanderson Alex. Mann Owen Sound David Forster Niagara Fall A. T. Mann John Moffat Richmond Alll Thos, Nicol Guelph John Nicol C. ‘Williams Sault Ste. Marie Wm. ‘Williams Annie Johnston Bella Stephenson Toronto Mar Andrew Wallace Doris Wallace Ville Acton T.C. Wilson Cobourg Santee Tuer Parc W. EH. Gurney Wingham Wallace George Murray

Bracebridge hockey star Bill Braybrook dies in Bala

Obituary notes the death of Bill Braybrook at twenty four after flu illness. He was a standout Bracebridge hockey player for three seasons and highly praised by the Bracebridge Gazette as Muskoka’s top talent. Also reports open for Malton Halton spring assizes with no criminal cases and rule changes in Canadian amateur hockey allowing forward passes and amateur-pro mixing next season.

Pilyer Bracebridge Acton Bala Bill Braybrook Muskoka Halton Malion Miltéh McEvoy Sheriff Brown Oakville John R. Byers Dorothy Sutton Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Canada Vancouver

Conversation Reveals Dodged Domestic Bash

In a candid exchange Jackson notes the idea of a wife praising a husband to neighbors. Johnson counters that his wife claimed she had done her best, highlighting domestic pride and rivalry in a tense moment.

Jackson Johnson

Redistribution trims Ontario Legislature seats to 90

The Special Redistribution Committee proposes reducing the Legislature from 112 to 90 seats, aligning rural ridings to 25 000 population and urban ridings to 50 000, with boundaries largely kept within county lines. The plan, led by Willian Finlayson, lists a full roster of affected ridings and awaits House endorsement.

Henry Willian Finlayson Finnlayson Conservative George A. McQuibban Liberals D. J. Taylor Progressives

Fruit Salad in Orange Cups and Straws Recipe

A vintage recipe fragment describes fruit salad in orange cups with lettuce beds and orange juice mayonnaise. It also includes an orange straw pie dough recipe and folding method, yielding decorative edible straws and shapes for serving.

Juvenile Mockery Ends In Humble Comeuppance

A city youth taunts an older Black man on a country road with racist jokes then faces a lesson in humility. Later at a supper table he makes another crude remark, prompting further social comeuppance before returning to town.

Darkie Sambo

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