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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
9
Public death notices list John Seenber George Herbert Bee Badie Bowarro and Mary Ann Ward as bereaved spouses with services noted at homes in Acton Ontario and Kitchener. Additional memorials honor Emma Price who passed away December 6 1929 with surviving family.
Acton stores stay open afternoons on Wednesday with Christmas shopping guidance and ads urge early buying. A welfare board meeting is planned in the Council Chamber and a shooting match at John Black's drew attendees. The St Alban’s bazaar and snowless week are noted along with firemen’s ball turnout and new post office mail carrier contract. William Nelson Scott of Milton dies at 82, a former Halton Agricultural Society president, survived by three daughters and a son.
An archival fragment notes a phrase about will and intention, with references to contemplation and the idea of steadfastness in purpose. The text captures a moment of reflection on legacy and choice in an unspecified historical context.
The text describes rituals for rain where communities form processions to pray for rainfall. In Greece a flowered girl leads the wells and springs, singing at halting points. A similar custom exists in Yugoslavia with a white girl called the Dodota clothed in grass and flowers guiding companions through the village.
Farmers are urged to shift toward lean hogs as today’s premium goes to the select bacon type weighing 180 to 220 pounds. Buyers value a jowled shoulder, tight belly, and firm finish with minimal fat, and producers are advised to visit yards or grading stations to see the hogs that earn the premium.
The New York dispatch reports Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Agnew unaffiliated with local schools. They credit University of Toronto scientists with discovering a diet rich in phosphorus and vitamin D that prevents and can halt dental caries. A Johns Hopkins expert calls it a milestone.
Yam a little thing with a big meaning. I help everybody. I unlock doors, open hearts, dispel prejudice, I create friendship and goodwill, I inspire respect and admiration. Everybody loves me, bore nobody. To violate no law, I cost nothing. Many have praised me, none have condemned me. I am pleasing to those of high and low degree. I am useful every moment of the day I am Courtesy.
A comparison notes stagnant water breeds mosquitoes and odor and threatens health while a moving water body stays beneficial. The author warns a stagnant mind mirrors this decay and urges continual thinking and learning to avoid mental stagnation.
Morbid gut conditions that encourage worms persist in the stomach and intestines. Miller's Worm Powders claim to remove digestive irregularities by destroying worms, ending favorable conditions and sparing the child further suffering.
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