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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1931
Page
6
A playful poem compares a year to a fresh loaf with holidays sprinkled like raisins. The speaker notes each day brings something new and fair though time may nibble the loaf. An editor or reader named Pranices O Hamlat is referenced in verse in this damaged text.
Menu hints provide holiday specials like sardine dishes and navel orange salads. It offers recipes for a holiday luncheon including sardines with lemons and radish rosettes, a raspberry junket dessert, and quick meat pasta dishes plus potato gal. It emphasizes simple steps, serving ideas, and flavor enhancements.
At the Dominion Experimental Station in Ontario, selection of Yorkshire sows focuses on type, quality, prolificacy, dam mothering ability, and balance. Data over 13 years show average 10.6 pigs per litter and rising numbers per sow until age three, suggesting ongoing strong productive potential without overloading matings.
Catherine and friends at luncheon sketch a plan for a new club. They swap ideas until Mignon imagines a cooking club, the Clover Quaws, inspired by a grandmother recounting Aunt Kate’s frontier tale of Apple chief Weather Wolf and a brave rescue.
A reminiscence dated December 31 1091 recounts seventy seven years in the ministry. The author expresses gratitude for health and divine guidance, notes church work including revival services and numerous baptisms, laments social decline and alcohol, and closes with a Kipling Rudyard poem excerpt and a medical advertisement.
The article discusses how taste buds in the mouth respond to temperature and moisture. It explains that nerve connections influence taste perception and that sensory intensity varies with heat and cold. Extreme heat or sugar impacts taste, and the strongest taste is noted around certain temperatures.
A garbled diary style piece references PridayweMra and Ant Emmy discussing marriage and household troubles. It notes someone named Munddy at the Hoontpaper office and mentions a fourman accident, with scattered lines about protection against worms and a worm powder remedy. The text blends names, gossip, and odd phrases without a clear cohesive event.
In Windsor on Thursday October 1 Peter Koval shot and killed Mrs Procw in her home at 1909 Cudiic Street and then shot himself. Mrs Procw, a widow with two children, had lived with a Mr red ram and struggled with liquor addictions. A Ukrainian translated note from Koval cites drunkenness and farewell to all as motive.
In a Adirondack area incident Mr M- and Mr K- attempt to reach a doctor by rubber waterproof boat. They row toward the village but the craft fails to function and sinks near the shore with a fatal outcome. The incident highlights survival and a missing boat.
The Live Block Market Report notes a 73,000 head cattle movement this year, up from 60,000 last year, with Western cattle and eastern feeds in strong demand. Beef prices and grain values rise as feed costs push expectations of 10 cents per pound for beef, and barley and wheat futures improve.
Remarkable railway construction in the Rocky Mountain states overcomes barriers once deemed insurmountable. Colorado lines thread main ranges at 11 000 feet with tunnels and looping curves, including a train passing through a tunnel and looping Yankee Doodle Lake. The Denver and Rio Grande route faces the Arkansas canyon, where a hanging bridge and embedded supports enable transcontinental trains daily between river and canyon rim.
Notice to creditors of the estate of James Erwin Stewart late of Kaquesing Township Hulton Yarmer Deobasext. All persons having claims against the estate who died on or about October 11 1091 are to submit them to solicitor John Aberdeen Lenlio administrator on or before January 15 1003. After that date the administrator will distribute assets with notice to those known and will not be liable for claims not then presented. Dated Georgetown December 5 101. Solicitor Han Wu M Lancidon for Laurie Administrator 163
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