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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1931
Page
7
Fragmented motivational verse urging perseverance in work and life. It extols grit, courage, and steady effort through hardship, citing Columbus as example and urging readers to keep their “ship in good trim” and “hold up your chin” despite misfortune.
A mixed wafer of local items reports a large Methodist table society gathering, dancing prizes won by Annie Rosa Wow, and plans for street lighting during the Toronto Ex. Also notes a train schedule, a Sunday School picnic, taxes paid by Rev Antifft in June, and several August 1911 weddings and church notices from Acton. The piece blends social events, minor incidents, and family movements across Acton and nearby Ontario towns.
A Department of Agriculture survey from Ottawa shows 65 percent of over 1,200 Canadian housewives in twelve loading cities rely on the official branded Fed or blue mark to judge dependable beef quality. The remaining 35 percent know little about branded beef, but those who have bought by grade report satisfaction with quality, while many not familiar with branding express willingness to buy more if assured of dependable quality.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a woman laments difficulty finding work due to lack of a reference from her last employer. Dusty Rhoades counters with a grim joke about a reference from someone already dead for 326 years.
A Sunday School examination of Galatians 6 7 on sowing and reaping contrasts the natural results of fleshly deeds with the Spirit led life. It urges restoration of the erring with gentleness and cites duties to bear our own burdens while helping others.
A rambling piece cautions readers to slow down on high speed living and diet trends. It blends nutrition advice with fashion critiques, urging balanced meals, adequate roughage, and caution on underweight looks while noting asthmatic relief claims and moral exhortations.
A fragmentary diary style item recounts odd town happenings and daily misadventures from a rough, humorous perspective. It covers a sequence of days with informal entries about local events, disputes, and humorous asides involving family figures and邻 unusual phrases. The prose is garbled and includes archaic spellings and stray lines about a tonic or remedy.
A hurried author pays a $1.10 taxi fare with a twenty dollar bill, prompting the driver to claim it is the first twenty since before the war. The passenger, an actor on the Lambs stoop, refuses a dollar and a quarter, sparking a quip about risking a dollar if he stays.
The fragment lists daily times such as 6.33, 12.13, 1.33, 3.53, 6.13 and notes exceptions on Saturdays Sundays and holidays. It mentions days only schedules and special days like Mondays and bandiya and Holi daya with references to Bavipy time and 8.33 p.m.
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