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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 22, 1934
Page
7
A fragmented children's vignette describes a girl and family chat about favorite sayings and sewing. Aunt Beatie arrives for a stay while the narrator notes their mother and father sewing together, with playful slang and domestic bustle throughout.
February brought record cold temperatures with fourteen below and twelve above zero. Basil Johnston of Erin Township digs a Knox Avenue residence while W H Storey and Son set to equip their glue works with hydro power. Alex Mackie leaves Beardmore & Co for International Correspondence Schools. A Rockwood Presbyterian Young People Society event bridged Knox Church youths. The season’s first skating carnival drew many costumed entrants with William Williams noted as oldest skater.
Advertises Beal your horse applying Egyptian Liniment to sore necks and galls as a quick, reliable treatment for horses.
An essay tracing Lent from Saxon origins to modern observance. It notes Lent as a season of fasting, worship, self examination, and charity, with gradual standardization of its forty day length during the middle ages and emphasis on acts of generosity over time. The piece recalls Mothering Sunday and historical shifts in penitential practice.
A reflective piece on open and closed doors in Canadian and English homes and the meanings attached. The author contrasts tropical Canadian heat with Arctic winter, noting how door habits reveal climate, privacy, and social norms, then wryly relates Ginger Farm life and a stubborn Optimist vehicle.
A playful diary fragment recounts a week of school life with misheard chores and misadventures. The narrator mentions tests, a measles absence, a visit to a friend’s house, a wind incident, school spelling, and a planned mountain vacation.
A wife rebukes her husband for forgetting their wedding anniversary. He jokes that time has passed so quickly the wedding feels as though it happened only yesterday. The light exchange highlights a playful domestic moment.
A tense exchange reveals a daughter fearing a factory job at her father’s plant. The suitor challenges her to prove herself by taking the job, while she worries about safety in a dynamite factory.
F L Skinner of Dropmore Manitoba wins the Cory Cup from the Royal Horticultural Society for a new hardy garden lily named Maxwell. The award was shown in July 1933 with Skinner invited to London for the presentation in February. He has prior RHS merit awards and the Stevenson Memorial from Manitoba and an honorary diploma from the Manitoba Agricultural College for plant improvement. He bred roses lilacs weigelas cherries apples pears and dianthus and exchanged seeds with major botanical gardens and stations worldwide.
A promotional feature extols Dr Southworth's Uratabs as a home remedy for bladder weakness and irritation. It promises quick improvement within 24 hours and urges readers to test a ten day supply, with a guarantee of satisfaction or refund.
The article recalls how tithes troubled Essex courts in earlier days with farmers using dodges to avoid the parson’s share. Samuel Wesley at Epworth confronted a thief who cut ears from tithe corn before delivery and led him before the people. The era’s rural mood is captured by the Harvest Home song admitting repeated cheating of the parson.
A terse proverb about sowing and reaping warns that actions today bring future consequences. The saying emphasizes prudence and avoidance of rash or careless deeds.
Yandell C. Cline publisher of the Huntington Herald-Press argues that advertising yields returns proportional to effort and thought. Merchants should invest in planned campaigns rather than quick, careless ads and treat advertising as part of their sales organization.
An assertive note argues that advertising, when given a chance, will deliver complete results. It urges confidence in promotional effort as the key to broad reach and effective outcomes.
A fragmented timetable notes an eastbound Chicago filer passing Acton at 7 100 percent am then 6 34 pm with a stop at Georgetown at 9 44 p m. Being westbound daily except Sunday and Sunday-only service is referenced in incomplete form.
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