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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1936
Page
7
The lines express a preference for serving the one I love over worldly status or wealth. The speaker values dedicated work for love above fame or fortune, seeking inner contentment through meaningful personal bonds.
March came in like a lamb with below zero temp. Leases, sales, deaths, and births surface from Acton area. Includes farm lease, cottage sale, obituaries, enlistment appeals, and local notices. BORN McGlaughlin and Taylor births recorded. DIED Anderson in Ospringe. various family and wartime items.
Canadian wholesale and industrial activity rose in 1935 with a 3.7 percent jump in the physical volume index, a nearly 9 percent rise in overall production, and gains in minerals exports, steel, petroleum, and electric power. Poultry feed sales surged, led by mixed feeds, while exports and imports also increased though unevenly across sectors.
A narrator recalls how English homes named rooms from drawing rooms to sitting rooms and study, comparing terms in the old country with Canadian usage. She notes varied room functions, heating in schools, and how parlors evoke era and family life.
A Sunday School lesson reflects on Peter's blurted proposal on the transfiguration, the need to convert vision into service, and Jesus healing a boy possessed by a demon. Jesus rebukes the disciples for their failure and calls the father to bring the child to Him. The crowd is astonished at God’s majesty.
Sunday to Saturday diary entries recount small misadventures at school and home with mispronunciations and odd observations. The narrator notes classmates, a teacher, a dog owner, a neighbor and a wedding joke about Birmingham’s single digit.
A fragmented dialogue recalls vanished horses and a salesman debating thieves in Crimson Gulch. The text parades two letters children favor, amid stray references to a worm exterminator sold cheaply at druggists.
The author recalls older English school heating with open fireplaces and compares it to steam heating in Canada. He notes the country copper for laundry, a built in cauldron in the kitchen corner, with a small fire pot beneath to heat water and boil clothes, sometimes using paper as fuel.
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