Social Roundup from Acton Week End Visits
Social notes list many locals visiting relatives and friends over the weekend including Miss Helen McDonald from Kitchener and Miss Margaret Macdonald of Toronto. Several families based in Guelph Hillsburg Weston and Milton hosted or received guests while wishing ill others a speedy recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen
McDonald
B. A
Kitchener
Margaret. Macdonald
Toronto
Yee
Acton
Gordon Hayward
Ji. Nicholson
Kilbride
Milton
Wm. Landsborough
Wedding Anniversary Obituary and Church Bouquet Note
Fifty six years after a December wedding Mary Jane Graham and James MacIntosh lived in Acton for decades. The Baptist Church ladies sent a bouquet and a heartfelt message while noting the bride lies critically ill, a planned gathering disrupted by her condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Parsonage
Georgetown
Mary Jane Graham
James MacIntosh
Stewarttown
Acton
Bower Avenue
Frank
Roy
Grant
Ladies of the Baptist Church
James, Macintosh
THAT TEMPER OF YOURS
You claim a bad temper but it is really an uncontrolled temper. People lash out with disagreeable remarks but you can choose self control. Treat temper as a responsibility and work to master it rather than letting it harm others.
Value of Waste and Its Hidden Treasures
The piece discusses how waste products become valuable, citing beef industry byproducts and a Los Angeles high school that funded a $25,000 pipe organ by recycling waste paper. It argues efficiency and time management matter, urging readers to value what is wasted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
First Snowstorm Warning Turns Tragic as Boy Dies
A teacher warns pupils about the season's first snowstorm and cold risk. A seven year old boy who played in the snow with a new sled caught pneumonia and died in three days, leaving the classroom stunned as a student asks where his sled was.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad
White Swan Lake Trout Stock Boosts Angling Resources
White Swan Lake in the Koote nay district was barren of sport fish until June when 20 000 Kamloops trout eggs were planted by the Fish Culture Branch. Early fingerlings show a satisfactory display and analysts expect further growth this season, reflecting wider aims to expand angling resources alongside commercial stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Swan Lake
British Columbia
White Swan
Kootenay
Fish Culture
Dominion Department of—Fisheries
Kamloops
Dominion Fish Culturists
Farming as a Business: Modern Farmers as Entrepreneurs
Dr J Coke, Ottawa Assistant Director of Agricultural Economics, argues in Economic Annalist that the modern farmer is an entrepreneur and business owner who buys and sells commodities, employs labor, and seeks a sustainable income. He urges agriculture to be organized on a business basis to improve living standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Coke
Agricultural Economics
Ottawa
National Economy
Economic Annalist
The Failures That Help Build Real Success
A reflection on how early setbacks in school or work can become the foundation for later achievement. The piece notes heartbreak from failure but argues that one failure can spur genuine progress if it leads to better effort and learning, urging readers to stop after learning from the experience.
Italy to host Fifth World Poultry Congress in next year
Professor Alessandro Ghigi of Italy, commissioner of the Fifth World's Poultry Congress, met Ottawa officials to outline preparations. The Trajan Forum will house exhibits, meetings will be at the Institute of Agriculture, and Premier Mussolini will open the Congress in the Capitol. Uniform display planned across six gallery stalls with identical lighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Alessandro Ghigi
Italy
Weir
Department of Agriculture
Ghigi
Mussolini
Market Reports Dairy Hides Wool and Grain Quoted in Toronto
Toronto quotations show butter prices for creamery stock and mixed goods. Hides and wool dealers list city and country hides with varying grades and prices, beef calves and veal kip values, and timothy and straw prices. Grain prices from the Toronto Board of Trade include Manitoba wheat rates and Ontario track prices for wheat oats and barley. Wholesale fruit prices list apples grapes pears and McIntosh varieties. Live stock prices cover steers heifers calves cows with distinct price bands by weight and quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Toronto Board of Trade
Manitoba
Ontario
Tito
B. C. McIntosh
Drying Wheat in Canada Perfected by NRC Study
The National Research Council’s Associate Committee on Grain reports artificial wheat drying in Canada is now practically perfected. Losses from crop rations earlier reached 28.6 to 50.8 percent with cash deductions totaling millions. Commercial driers now dry grain without harming milling and baking quality, with experiments expanding to barley and other coarse grains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
National Research Council
Opening of Peace Garden at Manitoba US Canada border
Mr J J Carnahan writes of the July dedication of Canusa Peace Garden a joint Canada US project on a 3000 acre tract between Manitoba and North Dakota. The site aims to feature flower beds shrubs lakes and twin monuments with nations flags and a 1812 treaty inscription as 10000 cars and 50000 attendees observed the event with free cross border access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J’ Carnahan
Briindgn
Man
Manitoba
Carnahan
Reaburn
Ida
North Dakota
U. 3.A
Canusa
Canada
Can
U.S. A
Difficulties Build Strong Character and Education
Difficulties do not defeat you but shape strength through overcoming them. The text argues that challenges develop sagacity and perseverance and that struggling indicates learning. Overcoming inner fears yields growth, while ease may signal a lack of opportunity to develop character.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sday
Free Press
Ruby Clark
Wm. Bingham
Rt Bennett
Telford Kenney
Hamilton
Ernest Denny
Caledon
J. H. Denny
Edwin
Landsborough
Guelph
F. A. McLean
Billy
Wm. Johnstone
R. J. Kerr
J. W. McLeod
Thomas Bingham
Chappell
Betty Bingham
Robt. Bennett
Harley Brignall
Robert
Fletcher
J. H. Reed
John Ramsden
Gladys Scarrow
New
Lowell
Jas. McIntosh
J. L. Nicholson
Charles Landsborough
Vera Landsborough
Galt
L. M. Reid
St. John’s Hospital
James McIntosh
Baptist Church
Barren Lake
Congress
Barbara Stanwyck
Tom Keene
Good Entertainment
Jack Holt
Ralph Graves
Fox News
Mirian Mersh
Bray Chick Hatchery
Claybuern Ave
ST. Catharines
Market Reports
Thess
SECON
Prince Edward
New Brunswick
Coats
oYe
B.D. Rachlin & Co
Carroll’s
Mill Street
Santa
China
Speciaes
Libby
Castile
P. D. Mincemeat
Monarch Pastry
Weston's
Cc Wieda
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!