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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
6
A poem recalls Christmas as a fingerpost on a broad highway guiding to time with Father. People greet, sing, and enjoy pleasures while old and young share laughter. Memories of Christmas act as a golden ray during the day’s happy hours.
Christmas dinner features croquettes as an entree option with sweet potato, Brazil nuts, butter and egg bound in crumbs baked until brown. Also offered are a pineapple mince meat pie and a chocolate sponge roll with whipped cream and chocolate glaze.
In a village after the class of 89 graduation a doctor praises his son Dick Carter as a future physician while Alice Dean, daughter of a lawyer, is urged toward music. She chooses a different path, taking stenography and typewriting lessons, then reveals plans to study law and join her father’s practice as a clerk and future attorney.
A film director claims strong skill in executing funny falls and asserts personal ranking near Niagara. The applicant responds confidently, implying high competence in stunt comedy within the audition.
During a public gathering an orator angrily ridiculed a notion by saying ridicule mirrors a camel burying its head in sand. A rival countered that the remark likely referred to an ostrich peering its eye through a needle in similar circumstances.
Did You Ever Stop to Think about newspaper advertising, asks T Grehan of the Dublin Independent Newspapers. He cites nine weeks of silence due to labor trouble, noting advertisers fled to other media with little gain and says a country without newspapers is blind folded. He calls himself a hot-gospeller now.
A condensed Acton business directory item lists Dr J A McNiven and Dr E J Nelson physicians and electrotherapy, Harold Nash farmer, M A Barrister Solicitor, Ken Langdon Notary Public, and George town appointments. It also shows A J Buchanan and P W Pearen dental surgeons, Dr A G M Bruyns veterinary surgeon, and Dr Thos Kain veterinary services with office locations on Mill Street and hours noted.
E N Harrop offers bound books and ruling services. Periodicals bound and custom bookbinding available at Wyndham Street, Guelph Ontario. Contact day or night at phone number 83 for bids and orders.
Inmates at Queen Mary Hospital benefit from a novel school program serving patients from across the province. The initiative keeps education active for convalescent youths and adults, offering classes and learning materials to aid recovery and reintegration.
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