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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1935
Page
8
A speaker notes doubters saying a task cannot be done then recounts proceeding alone to complete it. The narrator recounts dialogue about impassable odds and mocks the idea of failure before succeeding with secret action.
A mixed digest of local notes and notices from Thoresay including council appointments for auditors A E Nicklin J P and George F R Agnew. war news from Russia via a greeting card from Acton Boys at Selis bury Plain. arrivals and visits such as Chief Engineer Wilkie at Tim Farr Pigg Office. a new electrician applicant Clarence Bisckhall of Wingham with a 50 salary. Halton County wardenship race detailing A S Porstar Oakville and D Campbell Nasagaweya as contenders. obituaries for Albert Wright and Catherine Stewart Moore. and an asthma remedy ad attributed to Dr W D Kellogg.
The 1935 Agricultural Situation and Outlook reports Canada's 1934 horse production up despite stagnation in purebred breeding. Breed clubs in western provinces rose 34.8 percent, stallion shortages persist, and imports of draft stallions were projected to double in 1934. Export demand and rising work-horse prices followed, with shipments to Great Britain and Barbados and talks to supply 500 unbroken Western range horses to China.
A reflective piece on homestead poultry marketing from Ginger Farm detailing singeing chickens for sale and clever house tips. The narrator shares a Toronto joke about mishandled poultry, then laments holiday store hours and clerk fatigue after Christmas, urging Boxing Day as a provincial holiday.
Early in Use I knew what a nut tree should look like from kindergarten drawings. California coast groves confirmed form and symmetry, not evident nuts. Nuts are concentrated foods. pair with cereals breads and dairy. Recipes include Mocha Nut Cake Corn Flake Drop Cookies Sugared Brazil Nuts.
A fragmentary diary style column recounts daily oddities and local chatter from Friday to Thursday including townsfolk named Milly Sonny and Billy. It mentions fashion hints, minor injuries, a Dr visit, and humorous home observations. An unsolicited herbal beauty ad closes the piece.
A scanned snippet offers a recipe for potato nut balls made from mashed sweet potatoes with pecans, corn flakes, and deep frying. It also promotes worm powders claimed to cure stomach and intestinal worms and improve a child’s health and digestion.
A man claims to answer a night watchman ad and boasts that slight noise wakes him. An old woman asks to mail trousers by book post, the postmistress refuses. A barber and victim exchange a gag about a cut lip and a glass of water as the victim tests his mouth.
A barber nicked a wealthy patron with his razor and quipped about bleeding on a banker. The patron replied that some barbers were careful with razors, while the barber stayed calm and cryptic, saying he was underground.
An ad narrates a college student recovering from fatigue after taking a tonic said to build blood. It touts increased red cells and hemoglobin, urging readers to try Dr Williams Pink Pills sold by pharmacies for those who feel rundown or underweight.
A fragmentary record notes a dinner remark about pine sentiment and a confused exchange about memory. The text references an unnamed speaker Casey and a question about what was said, with garbled lines following.
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