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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1931
Page
6
A reflective piece urges pressing forward on the pilgrim road to holiness during a sacred moment. It speaks of loving ward and care to aid the faltering and all in need on life’s highway. The text envisions a dawn when earthly pageants fade and the infinite light appears.
A vintage menu page offers Sweet Pickled Peaches and Translucent Preserves with sugar, fruit, and spice steps. It also details Thrown Coconut Nunnun baked apples and a Transparent Pie with coconut topping plus fruit sherbet and lemon cream filling ideas, all urging home canning and festive dishes.
A historical account recalls the early Congregational Church in Acton begun by Rev. Iram Denny in 1838, with initial members including Swackhamers and Rand family. It notes church formation, ordination of the Lord's Supper, a 1843 membership purge, and the 1844 1845 church buildings in Acton with the cemetery at the Knox Church site. The piece honors founders Uncle Thom Benny and Jos. Unaworth, praising their 38 and 22 years of faithful ministry and the community’s temperance record.
The piece discusses defining luxury versus necessary use, arguing that comfort and status items vary by era and place. It cites hats, diamonds, milk, coal, and shoes to show how what is seen as essential or luxurious changes with time, culture, and wealth.
A brief report details experiments by the Yee Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms testing honey storage. Honey in one half pound jars was kept 40 to 70 degrees with varied humidity, observed monthly for a year. Findings show 40 to 50 degrees favored quality, while 10 degrees caused fermentation and spoilage at the highest temperature.
A rustic tale lists odd farm tips and warnings about visitors to a rural homestead. It mentions feeding times for cows, a twenty five cent charge for children, restrictions on touching fruit trees, and admonitions about breakfast, haystacks, needles, and paying bills in advance.
A teacher, frustrated by a pupil, asks if the student is the teacher in the class. The pupil replies no, creating a tense moment with a cryptic response. The exchange highlights classroom friction and role confusion.
A small boy pleads for someone to take him home to Isaac Goldberg at 111 South Main Street where his father shows women’s bras at very low prices. The scene unfolds amid a mistaken cry for assistance and a focus on the displayed merchandise.
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