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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
11
A reflective poem about parcels and presents, noting scarlet and white wrappings, rattling inside, and the irresistible appeal of unopened packages. The speaker confesses a longing to keep a parcel from dinner till tea, sensing a mysterious inner something that never fully emerges.
A vintage instruction piece explains butter as the superior fat for Christmas cookies and lists multiple recipes. Shortbread variants use butter and flour, with directions for texture and baking. Almond Orange Vanilla Wafers and Totti-Protti Cookies add nuts, citrus, and chocolate elements with step by step mixing and baking details.
The piece blends a history of the Olympic Games with a Christmas reflection. It traces the term Olympiad and the link to Olympia, mentions ancient rites, and notes a four year cycle. It shifts to Christmas nostalgia, childlike wonder, and notes on Millin Street, local schools, and the Sidney Smith family heritage at Fairview Place with anecdotal recollections.
A personal reminiscence recounts the Smith family fire that ruined a home, the later use by the School Board as Continuation School, and the town’s old swim spots. It recalls Allan Smith in Grimsby, Mrs Smith’s passing in Palmiew Cemetery, and Col Allan’s funeral. The piece ties local history to anecdotes of swimming holes, tannery creeks, and a professor’s beam experiment.
A woman accused her rival of witchcraft after a dispute and fled to Belliwen hospital in New South Wales. Doctors used X rays and a planned map assistant device, revealing no evil influence. The treatment saved her life.
A quirky exchange features two tramps amid a park setting. The first asks about wealth and plans, while the second offers a surreal line about upholstering park benches. The dialogue reads as a surreal street vignette from an urban arts column.
A Dominion of Agriculture bulletin explains balancing poultry rations for growth and egg production. It covers feeding values, ingredient availability, cost, and the need for vitamins minerals and proper form, with guidance on obtaining the free bulletin from Ottawa.
A reflection on friendship noting that a true friend prompts a person to return to their core while together. It cites Henry Van Dyke describing blessed influence as likeness to a heavenly presence that inspires purity of heart and noble conduct.
A fragmented quotation ponders whether soldiers share true virtue when serving different armies under the same overarching struggle against darkness and wrong. It questions internal conflict among allies, urging focus on the common enemy rather than uniformed divisions.
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