Community Life Visitors and Travels Through the Week
The Free Press surveys social visits and travel in town with residents and guests from Toronto, Guelph, Pontiac, and Erindale. Notable mentions include Mrs. R. J. McPherson in Toronto, Miss Kathleen Stewart visiting from Toronto, and the Gamble family hosting visitors from Emmanuel College. Local events include a silver wedding anniversary for Mayor and Mrs. Mackenzie and people attending a Toronto skating carnival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen Stewart
Toronto
Maggie E. Lane
Guelph
Costs of horse labor detailed in Canadian farm reports
The Experimental Farms and Stations reports provide practical data on horse labor costs. W W Baird notes yearly horse upkeep at 198.95 with 1 925 hours worked, yielding 10 cents per hour and a credit of 80.74 after feed costs. S Ballantyne records 1930 hourly costs around 6.6 cents, aligning with eight year averages 6.3 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Canada
W. W. Baird
Nappan
N. S
S. Ballantyne
Kapuskasing Station
Freshman Dies Not Applicable Answered Permit Question
Indiana University freshman faced a bizarre permit question asking the purpose for which his car would be used. He wrote a blunt reply, "To ride in," revealing the humorous misinterpretation of the form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana University
Canada census shows population rise across most provinces
The 1931 Canadian census reports a total Dominion population of 10,374,196, up 1,585,713 or 18.04 percent since 1921. Ontario and Quebec lead gains, while Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia and Northwest Territories decline. British Columbia grows fastest among provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion
Prince Edward” Island
Nova Scotia
Northwest’ Territories
Edward Island
Northwest Territories
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Yukon
British Columbia
Wet Work in Rice Fields Across the Orient
The article contrasts rice field labor in Asia with conditions at home, noting the harsh, water‑logged work under hot sun. It mentions malaria risks, low pay around twenty five cents, and the contentment of girls despite the hardship, urging gratitude for local advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orient
Philippines
Canada
The Most Costly Loss
A humorous meditation on lost items and the true loss of temper. The piece contrasts rewards offered for forgotten objects with the unrewarded but costly loss of temper, urging self control to avoid personal damage and broken relations. It cautions that temper is hard to recover once lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pickering
The Generous Spirit and Envy in Success
The text argues that real friends often feel jealousy when others succeed. It notes vanity rises when a classmate gains a better position or higher pay, spoiling pleasure at another's achievement. The piece urges reader restraint and honest appraisal of others' merit.
Priest Proves Answer Is Moses Not Patrick
In a church scene a priest offers 25 cents to a boy who names history’s greatest man. An Italian boy names Christopher Columbus, an American George Washington, a Jewish youth calls St Patrick. The priest awards the quarter, and the Jewish boy explains his heart knew Moses was the true answer, but pastry is business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Columbus
George Washington
St. “Patrick
St. Patrick
Moses
Four Things Money Cannot Buy Rise From Luncheon Tale
A luncheon group debates wealth and happiness and the limits of money. A challenger claims money buys all, but four items really worth having money cannot buy are revealed as a baby's smile youth true love and entrance into heaven, shown in a note passed across the table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise
Heaven
Packing Dairy Butter Methods and Packaging Rules
The Dairy and Cold Storage Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture promotes parchment wrapped dairy butter packaging. It favors 10 to 20 pound spruce tubs lined with parchment and 1 to 2 pound prints, branded with Dairy Butter. The article stresses attractive presentation and compliance with the Dairy Industry Act branding requirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dairy Industry
Ice Cream Man Confronts Truant Boy in Stray Tale
A rough exchange unfolds as an ice cream man finds a boy on a block of ice. The man questions the boy about truancy and childhood, insisting on understanding before continuing. The scene hints at shared memories of youth and discipline.
Erin Arch McGill Pioneer Farmer Dies in Erin
Erin Arch McGill long noted as a Conservative and Presbyterian pioneer farmer dies Tuesday aged about 70. Survived by widow Ann McLachlan, a son Peter, seven daughters Flora Annie Sarah Ella Mrs James Nevilly Mrs Elmer McMillan and Mrs Eaton of Toronto. Funeral today at Huxley Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie McGill
Erin
James Nevilly
Elmer McMillan
Eaton
Toronto
Huxley
Rosella Lucchése
William
J. Hartley
Nelson Township
Smithville
Richard ‘Worden
Edward
Susan Worden
Actonana
Georgetown
Alpena
Mich
Lizkie
Aurilla Worden
Merritt
Jas
Olga
Grimsby
Leonard Armstrong
Milverton
Alex. Sloat
Earl
Stratford
Alvey Blair
Messrs
R. Hunter
J. Chase
James Chase
C. Lacey
L. Ecker
W. McDonald
5000 Facts About Canada New Edition for 1932
The 1932 edition of 5000 Facts About Canada by Frank Leigh offers a compendium of Canadian data including census results for cities and towns over 10 000 population. It presents fifty chapters on national life with progress contrasts since 1900 and is sold at 35 cents each or three for a dollar through the publisher at 588 Huron Street Toronto or via newsdealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Frank
Leigh
Dominion
Canadian Facts Pub, Co
Huron Street
Toronto
Market Quotations Toronto Butter Meats Hides and Grain
Toronto quotations list creamery butter and pasteurised goods with prices for delivered and retail, plus dressed meats wholesale rates for beef mutton and heavy hogs, and Toronto board of trade grain and potato quotes. It notes city hides, calf, horsehide, tallow and grain prices, ending with a regional crime reference about murder by poisoning in Egypt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
City
Egypt
Mystery of the Morgue’s Filing System Revealed
A retired archivist explains how Wall Street explosion clippings hid in the New York Evening Post morgue. Before West Street move and Vesey Street nickname, staff struggled to locate records and finally found them under Mishaps in the letter M cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Post
West Street
Vesey Street
Wall Street
Villard
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the Free Press
R. J. ‘McPherson
George Bishop
Ruby
Clark
Eugene McPherson
Co. ‘le Poole
Mar Ed“Huftman
Pontiac
A. H. Bishop
Alfred Bishop
J. Elvin Gamble
Emmanuel College
Margaret Garvin
J. Gordon Ramsden
Kathalkeen McComb
Sick Children's Hospital
Wm. McFadden
John
Ae Bons
George Elliott
Philip Bovair
Bracebridge
Angus McEachren
Mrs. Mackenzie
Lenore Carlisle
Helen ‘Loyns
Augusta Anderson
H. Roy Wansbrough
Acton
Albert Young
Isaac Bennett
Bertrand Conover
Erindale
R. Bennett
M. Z. Bennett
Russell Salmon
Mr. Salmon
Imey
Arch. McGill
John A. McCraney
Oakville
Trafalgar Township
George McCraney
MecCraney’s Corners
Peas
Great Lakes
Lake
William J. Hartley
Nelson
Richard
Worden, Smithville
Trad
Ambassador Bill
Will Rogers
Gems of
Technicolor Novelty
Damascus
Paris
John, Gilbert
Lelia ‘Hyams
Howdy Mates
Fox
Movietone News
Red Grange
Duke
STA. B. Co. Rachlin & Co
Patterson
Tbs
Patterson's Meat Shop
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D. E. Macdonhald & Bros., Ltd
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