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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
7
A vivid domestic scene describes a family preparing for Christmas. A small boy notes the sweet smells, jokes, and festive preparations including a full pantry, a dressed Christmas tree, sparkling tumblers, holly wreath, and a turkey in the cellar.
Vintage style collage of recipes and tips from a YWCA era page. It includes steamed fruit pudding with pineapple juice, hard sauce, pineapple milkshake, wafers and cookies like Brazil nut wafers and macaron cookies, plus beauty tips and a bridge club joke.
A nostalgic diary style piece recalls playing with brother Phil in the orchard and walking to school despite harsh weather. It shifts to Acton in 1885 noting 12 grocery stores, prices for cordwood bread and gas lamp mentions, local business changes, school results, accidents, and Christmas gift ideas and spirits.
Canada secures multiple top prizes at the International Grain and Hay Show in Chicago led by W. Freland Wilford of Stavely Alberta winning the world wheat championship for the 21st time. Western Canada also shines in hard red spring wheat field beans field peas white corn and soybean events with several reserve titles and top livestock wins.
The Royal Winter Fair in Toronto hosted the Forth annual national contest of the Canadian Boys and Girls Farm Club. Thirty-two teams from nine provinces competed for Dominion Championship honors with Alberta taking beef cattle and grain awards, Quebec dairy cattle, Manitoba seed potatoes, and New Brunswick poultry.
Leningrad began in the eighteenth century as Peter the Great’s window to Europe, built on Neva marshes. Historic palaces and public buildings remain, though many old beauties have faded. curator led preservation continues as the city centers on science with hundreds of institutes and universities across the Soviet Union.
A fragment discusses blue and indigo color warnings in food and skin, noting methylated spirits stained blue as a danger sign. It mentions the seven color band of the rainbow, with red to violet, and claims most safe foods lie toward the red end while green foods exist but are rare.
A Cleveland Plate Dealer writer notes that water witches used forked witch hazel, willow, ash and elder twigs to locate water. The practice relies on the sitter’s quick observation and experience rather than modern instrument based prospecting methods using gravitational, magnetic or seismic principles.
Port named by Columbus Antipun is the most northeasterly port of the West Indies and seat of government of the Leeward Jatlanda. It was named for Santa Maria de la Antizua in Seville. Spanish and French attempts occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, with permanent settlement beginning in 1692 after settlers moved from St. Kitts.
The article notes that the proportions of tin sine and lead in organ pipes and bells have remained essentially unchanged for centuries. It compares the steady formulas for organ pipe tonality with those used for bell alloys, both prized for their sweet tones.
The article recounts St Brandan and seven monks discovering a western land beyond the Canary Islands after seven years apart. It notes the legend influenced later Atlantic exploration and mentions medieval geographers and Chevalier Chevarlon as part of the tale.
A fragmented report indicates earth tremors and gravitational stresses impacting rock formations. It mentions an event labeled Phawards's and hints at sudden b sing or upheaval affecting geological structures.
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