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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1934
Page
8
Ice cream and iced beverages and biscuits feature
A household guide offers recipes for iced coffee and iced chocolate using condensed milk, plus orange nut biscuits. It includes beef Texas style and ham with milk bake, a beef savory sauce, and notes on improving dishes with sugar. Also promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a multipurpose healer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Thomas
Confusing phrases on arithmetic and dialect notes
The fragment records a speaker muddling through numbers and arithmetic phrases in a regional dialect. It highlights language style and pronunciation as the central focus, with no clear event or datable action.
Friendly kitchen recollections and Acton school list
A nostalgic piece recalls a welcoming home scene tied to a past era. It follows with a letter from Acton August 20 1904 listing residents of district No. 12 Esquesing in 1849, school finances and trustees, plus the 1849 teacher John Dewar and a £65 salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Clock Tower
Free Press
William Christie
Thomas Moore
William Brown
Duncan Kennedy
Duncan Kennedy, Jr
William Leishman
George Walters
Dan McLachlin
William Elliott
George Elliott
Isaac Stouffer
Michael Farmer
Simeon Anderson
Henry Sayers
James Walters
E. Nicklin
Benjamin Thurrell
Thomas Perryman
James McClenighan
John Holgate
Thomas Overton
Alex, Grant
John Simmerman
Stafford Simmerman
Asa Hall
Oliver Lasby
James Hamilton
John Cummings
J. Worden
Bro
Isaac Coon
Stephen Coon
John Burns
John Ekin
John Spencer
John McDonald
Thomas Burns, Jr
Malcolm Kennedy
Samuel Smith
Matthew Swan
Ruth Adams
George Morley
Ezra Adams
Rufus Adams
Charles Sheldrake
John Holt
Thomas Ebbage
John Thompson
James Cameron
Abraham Matthews
James Rutherford
Archibald Currie
Thomas Davidson
Jacob Snyder
Stephen Mosales
John Scott
William Shanks
Alex. Mann
John Mann, Jr
Thomas Price
Rev. H. Denny
John Gibbins
Cis Dempsey
Jacob Swackhammer
John Swackhammer
Alex, Brown
Lawsons
Main” Street
Lachlan
McDonald
John Dewar
Century old frame house with history in Acton Ontario
A letter recounts Acton Ontario's Adams homestead built about 1830 by Zenas Adams, later owned by J B Mackenzie. The home served early Methodists, is praised for its Gothic front window, and remains two-family since 1906 with original siding and windows preserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Edwards & Co., Ltd
Ottawa
Canada Lumberman
White Pine Bureau
Adams
Acton
Ontario
Esquesing
J. B. Mackenzie
Georgetown
Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
W. C. Edwards & Co
Mackenzie
Mackenzie Lumber and Coal Yard
Mr. Mackenzie
Zenas Adams
Jenas Adams
Labor Day Picnic Delicacies Hidden in a Chocolate Nut Loaf
Two hints from Betty Barclay guide a Labor Day parade and picnic. Bake a chocolate nut loaf with walnuts and unsweetened chocolate, using sour milk, vanilla, and a slow 325 degree oven for about an hour, then frost if desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Barclay
Rich Chocolate Frosting and Fruit Preserves Recipes
A collection of kitchen instructions detailing cream cheese frosting and fruit preserves. Includes steps for a chocolate frosting to cover cakes or cupcakes, and for ginger pear jam and Concord grape jelly with pectin, plus iced mocha chocolate beverage. Contains ingredient lists, boiling times, cooling steps, and yields.
Acton Cafe Appointments List On Main Street
Acton offers appointments for George Over T Seynuck at 1.15 to 4.30 p.m on Tuesdays and Thursdays with evenings available on request. Office hours are in Acton and Georgetown for bookings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mill Street
Acton
Geo
T. Seynuck
Main Street
Georgetown
Leishman
Ontario
Wiles
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