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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
6
A playful handwritten note by Anna B Bryant celebrates a future day untraveled, urging calm and optimism. The speaker likens possibilities to a golden nugget and a smiling chance around the corner, urging the reader not to fret about what lies ahead.
December menus mix hot and cold dainties to lift mood. Sweet Potato Pone blends mashed potatoes brown sugar and ginger snaps baked with hot water. Country rarebit is a quick cheese toast with flour butter milk and spices served on crackers.
A holiday fruit cup recipe uses oranges grapefruit white cherries lemon juice and sugar with rubyettes and emrelettes and serving tips with green ice garnishes. Penny saving main dishes praises hamburg steak with sugar salt pepper and bread rounds topped with ground beef and parsley then hints at serving with tomato. A mock filet mignon combines chuck with suet onion salt pepper paprika and bacon wrapped broiled to finish.
A dialect key scene shows a master scolding his servant Rastus for a turkey with a gunshot, asking how the shot got in it. Rastus replies he bought a domestic turkey but says it appeared to be open for him, highlighting a rural or domestic comedy moment.
The speaker explains the difference between direct and indirect taxation using a simple coin purse metaphor. He contrasts paying taxes from personal pocket money with taxes collected through others, highlighting the same fundamental act of levying funds.
Patty Ann, a young wife, awaits a potential oil windfall while juggling housework and teaching a second grade. Curtis, a hopeful but struggling oil man, risks losing a dream as money and status shift around their modest life. A late-night call saves their fragile hopes and redefines their bond.
A maid bursts in with a plan to announce dinner to her mistress. The mistress recalls a prior day and suggests saying Dinner is buried rather than Dinner is ready or Dinner is served, illustrating a bleak humorous tone.
An after-dinner speaker jokes about eating too much and quips he would be unable to talk. A voice from the rear suggests giving him a sandwich as the moment lightens the room.
An advertisement style piece from Shawnee Oklahoma extols newspaper advertising as best for business. It argues persistent truthful ads boost sales and savings, urging firms to advertise or risk obscurity. It promotes Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy with claims of wide success across continents.
Acton Georgetown dental office offers appointments by phone with hours 9 am to 6 pm and Wednesday closed. Also lists accounting book binding and periodical binding services, plus a Guelph Ontario jeweller offering repairs and a general directory note.
The text promotes granite monuments and markers, claiming superior equipment and facilities. It urges readers to visit the plant to view stock and obtain quotations before ordering elsewhere, highlighting lasting memorial value.
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