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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 07, 1929
Page
3
Poem recounts Cartier naming Mount Royal and visions of cities while traders enter the valley. It laments loss of native glory and celebrates a regal building representing global commerce, urging a future faithful to heritage and destiny.
In Jasper National Park Canada pack horses and saddle ponies remain essential for travel where roads end. Major Brewster in charge of outfitting trails manages a large herd with cowboys guides and wranglers as visitors from across Canada and abroad seek mountain routes. The Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies hold annual camps near Jasper Park Lodge with 60 mile bronze buttons for mileage, drawing riders from many nations to the rugged high country.
The piece recounts the origin of the Globe Robin legend in Acton Ontario starting January 1879 when Postmaster James Matthews spotted a red breasted bird believed to be a robin. It details debates with Principal Thomas Moore, naturalist Broaze, and subsequent reports that popularized the annual Globe Robin. It also includes miscellaneous anecdotes about dreams and memory from newspaper workers and readers.
A large man in a motor car carelessly discards a burning butt which starts a forest fire. The flames spread rapidly, destroying a homestead, killing animals, and leaving only charred stumps and rocks. The speaker laments the senseless act and questions the man’s remorse.
An essay urges accepting friends with faults rather than demanding perfection. It notes friendship should help people improve while also embracing faults, and warns that judging others reveals our own flaws more than theirs.
A 1937 1020 Scotland Ireland trial divided pupils into four groups in Glasgow Aberdeen Edinburgh Belfast and other cites aged five to thirteen. Milk groups gained height 32.5 percent and weight 45.37 percent, with milk fed children sharper and more vigorous. biscuit group underperformed. Skimmed milk nearly as effective as whole milk.
The piece laments excessive punctuality yet affirms its value in modern life. It notes the selfishness of lateness, cites Washington on time wasting, and argues that the most useful people practice precise but balanced timeliness.
The article urges beekeepers to maintain strong colonies for maximum honey harvest. It explains that strong colonies rely on a vigorous queen and many young bees, and that weak colonies should be united with stronger ones before winter. It also advises feeding at least 40 pounds of honey equivalents and providing windbreaks.
A compact recipe outlines cooking steps for a beef and cornmeal dish with tomato sauce. It details boiling water with cornmeal, simmering seasoned meat and pepper, combining meat with tomato mixture, layering in a baking dish, and baking at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes.
Collection of recipes including lemon cocoanut filling with coconut, salmon salad with rice, stuffed tomatoes with pork chops, orange bread yeast cake, cinnamon apples supreme, and vanilla junket dessert. Includes ingredient lists and basic directions for each dish.
An OCR fragment recounts Devonshire dialect quirks and amusing mishearings from militia reviews and yeomanry drill. It describes a colonel shouting humorous phrases, a captain misinterpreting orders, and villagers debating local speech with lively dialect humor.
The bolero features flat lines and a smart season trend. A silk or velvet blouse combines with a plain skirt in a one-piece design with front fronts cut in one with the collar and faced to form revers. Pleats are stitched down and the girdle creates a swathed hipline.
The piece urges understanding motives before judging actions. It argues people misjudge by assumptions, urges placing oneself in another’s position, and notes public figures share the same mixture of self interest and sympathy. Practicing restraint could ease political anger and misjudgment.
Problematic signs begin in middle age with headaches nervousness back pain and bladder issues. The ad claims Dr Southworths Uratas offer relief after other treatments fail and guarantees satisfaction or money back with no risk.
The passage argues that advertising creates urgent demand and can prompt buyers to purchase sooner. It suggests offering slow-moving lines at reduced prices to stimulate sales and to brighten business by advertising desirable goods at lower prices. It notes advertising can banish dull business and entice paced buyers to buy at the advertiser's chosen time.
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