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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
5
The piece presents a rustic verse fragment with cheerfully wandering lines about journeying companions and shared joy on the road. It evokes a nostalgic tone as characters move together under August light, passing through a simple communal scene.
Highlights include Minn Macdonald resuming teaching at Lome Q School and L McMurchy at Wanneckham. J Lanby retires from farming with property for sale adjoining Corporation limits. John Flinithrook attends a Wash Sands baseball match. Harold Wiles buys Laura Bo Ryder’s confectionery business. Lana of Bootland excursion to Niagara Falls had modest turnout. J J Denny and wife return from a two month transcontinental trip. J D Crown buys a Frost wood binder, enabling four acres of grain to be cut that day. Harvest field needs about 20 000 men. DO Hendersonston and M T return from British Celularlla trip.
Caleb Penalce recalls making his first flapjacks fifty years ago using pork grease on a hot griddle. A smoky kitchen, a wary wife, and a heap of burnt cakes lead to a hasty cleanup and a hidden culinary deception. The tale blends memory, pride, and a quiet admission about cooking.
An old wartime anecdote recalls shortages of bread and powder after a march to the coast. A foraging party seized a boat to reach supplies and met a steamer with Major General Poster aboard, as soldiers pressed for hardtack and basic rations.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a husband and wife exchanging garbled phrases about bones and a turkey with oyster stuffing. The text presents elusive names and altered phrases, implying a distorted or playful overheard exchange.
An outline of lessons on the Babylonian exile and the return to Judah led by Cyrus and Darius. It covers Jeremiah’s hope, Cyrus’s decree, gifts for the temple, and songs of ascent used by exiles. Includes a domestic anecdote about a rooster disrupting neighbors.
A unique equipment addition to the Princess Norah float of the Dritlkh Columbia Coastal Steamships improves reef control in narrow Pacific channels between Vancouver Island and the mainland. It benefits port access for Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle.
Locomotive 8900 the British Empire fleet’s heaviest, oil burning and weighing nearly three quarters of a million pounds, now released for service on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It surpasses the Countess of Dufferin which arrived in Winnipeg two years ago, with 9,000 pounds tractive effort vs 78,000 pounds for 8900, reflecting latest locomotive engineering standards set by CPR.
Readers are urged to try at least one new recipe weekly. Tips include experimenting with fruits and vegetables, candied carrots, and making homemade ice cream from simple ingredients. The piece encourages affordable, easy desserts and DIY methods to refresh family meals.
A veteran story from the Union and Confederate gathering recounts a loyal Negro body servant's devotion to his master and his youths. The tale ends with the old man promising to bring them home safe, a promise he vows to tell their mother as battle rages.
The piece surveys Scottish fishwives in literature and history, contrasting modern steam fleets with the old Newhaven creel carriers. It recalls Lady Nairne and Charistie Johnstone, notes the Queen of Newhaven, and frames the fisher folk within literary and suffrage contexts.
A noisy, misspelled diary fragment records a sequence of days from Friday to Thursday. The writer describes social friction with a girl named Jane, minor thievery by a friend named Jake, a bath day and a party invitation, teasing about a toothbrush, and schoolyard nicknames for a boy whose father runs a junkyard. The tone is juvenile and casual with rough spellings and informal events.
The Outlook recounts a story from Mate Douglas Wingla about a devoted caregiver. A little girl in East Glove of New York carries a heavy bundle. a man asks if she needs help and learns the bundle belongs to her brother.
District readers are told the dates for local wall putt contests along with a long aside on parliamentary intelligence. Listed towns include Acton Aberfoyle Haigpebridge Burlington Cookpville Draytown Erin Lond Fergus Georgetown Galand Villey and more with specific days in September and October. A quoted remark from Fifty Years in Fleet Street contrasts parliamentary fame with intellect.
Train notice shows daily service from Toronto to Acton at 6 00 pm with 7 17 pm arrival on weekdays and 9 17 pm arrival on Saturdays and holidays. It mentions variations on Sundays and holidays with only a single daily departure.
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