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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1936
Page
7
Poem celebrates the season's revival with Easter imagery and nature's awakening. The speaker references God touching winter woods to life, orchard blooms, and the sun’s bright arrival as a springtime benediction. Dorothy Sproule is attributed.
A homemaker friend shares Prune-Apricot Upside Down Cake and two gelatin desserts. The cake blends cake flour with baking powder for a light texture and a colorful apricot prune checkerboard top. Cardinal Pear Mold and a Cherry Gelatin treat offer bright, fruit accented finishes for a dinner table.
A reflective tale recalls a sunlit farm life and a vacant family home as years pass. It also recounts the east coast cooperage near Salmonville, the Coates work shop, and local families linked to John Wood and Nelson & Co. through many decades.
A reflection on how enduring faith turns pressure from challenges into a source of strength. The author cites the idea that the best good comes from one’s own efforts and belief in overcoming hardship, illustrating a moral stance on perseverance.
A fragment recalls a maid mentioning Mr. Washington visiting a home and a puzzled motorist asked about a room as an officer stops him, hinting at a hazy local anecdote about past visits and notices.
The passage recalls Acton life from long ago, noting a new building burned during construction and nearly destroyed by fire. It mentions McMacken family, John Cameron, H P Moore on a roof, and residents like Edward Nicklin, Augusta Cameron, ex Mayor Nelson, Henry Prankum, J A Smith, Jennia Cameron, and current owner W A Murray with Mrs Murray enjoying the home.
A compact quotation discusses pleasure as a man’s chic aim and its failure to satisfy, noting that repeated pursuit dulls enjoyment and leaves a broader sense of inability. The text contrasts the heavier burden of such mediation with the harsh fate of a criminal.
A dialogue between characters shows the Prodigal expressing intention to settle down and raise chickens. The skeptical Panther counters with a suggestion to choose owls whose hours might suit the Prodigal better.
Dated kitchen tips offer a steak sauce credited to Jack Dempsey and chef Gus Hallett with butter onions spices and a long shelf life. Also included is Springtime Pudding made from corn meal flour milk molasses and ginger with a slow bake to prevent separation.
Canadian motor vehicle sales in 1935 rose 35.3 percent in passenger cars and 49.5 percent in trucks and buses from 1934, totaling 100,061 units and a retail value of 1010,285,655 dollars. Saskatchewan led in percentage gains, with 69.6 percent rise, and two thirds of sales were cash transactions with financing at 2.1 percent of value.
A playful exchange features Suswanach asserting a centuries old right to bear arms, rebutted by a Scot who jokes about a long standing right to bare knees spanning millennia.
The speaker recalls an ambush where no man, horse, or gun was lost and notes a pause as the other voices interrupt. The fragment emphasizes a successful escape with preserved assets and personnel.
An advertisement touts Kellogg's Rice Ex Exies as nourishing and easy to digest, promoting sound sleep. It claims ideal daytime consumption as well and features the Mother Goose story package sold in grocers, made by Kellogg in London Ontario with a quality guarantee.
After ten days entombed on the 1411 foot level of the Moose River gold mine in Nova Scotia a rock fall trapped three men. Dr D F Robertson chief surgeon Sick Children Hospital Toronto and timekeeper Alfred Scaddini survived. Hermann Magill died from exposure before rescue crews reached them. The two Toronto men were saved by miners after a fierce battle with time and falling rock.
Toronto witnesses a staged gas attack with aeroplanes, sirens and gas masks as the League of Nations Society Toronto branch promotes peace propaganda. The piece notes a World Youth Congress plan in Geneva and a Canadian Youth Congress in Ottawa May 23 to 25 with broad youth group involvement.
A damaged OCR recipe outlines a French salad dressing with sugar water lemon juice oil tomato catsup Worcestershire onion celery salt tabasco vinegar and lemon juice. It instructs mixing sugar water lemon juice oil and tomato products then thickening and cooling before adding remaining ingredients to glaze and store in a cloth bag.
A historical notice lists Dr W M Cullen prescribing hours 1 to 4 and 7.0 pm at Frederick and Mill Streets with telephone 128. It also names Harold Nash a farmer and M A Barrister, along with Kenneth M Langdon a solicitor notary public, with multiple Ontario offices and hours. Public office hours and appointment details appear for Acton Georgetown and nearby locations.
Veterinary surgeon Dr A G M Bruyns offers dental services along with bookbinding and binding of periodicals on Wyndham Street in Acton Ontario. Phone 135-A. Contact for account books and binding services.
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