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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 14, 1932
Page
6
Excerpts from Slats Diary by Ross Farquhar mix humorous school day notes with a moral on health from Charles C. Small, president of the American Ice Company. The diary entries capture daily life and small ironies as well as a mid paragraph health essay urging workers to value fitness for productivity.
The piece warns against trying to impress others with superiority or by boasting about compliments received. It argues that self advertising backfires and cannot win admiration, noting that people resent overt displays of personal superiority and that genuine likability comes from humility.
Gale Smith, a city desk reporter, and Donald Campbell, an eager rookie, clash with Stark and the muckraking Blake. Campbell pursues a Davis story while Gale guides him toward a humane angle, visiting a poor family and revealing a presumed mayoral candidate’s past.
Gale confronts Donald Campbell and sketches a plan to join the Examiner as the paper faces a shift. In the night walk through wealthy districts, they discuss loyalty, debts to the paper, and the potential consequences of the Davis case rumors.
In British Guiana, Kateteur Falls towers five times higher than Niagara, drawing few travelers while Niagara Falls remains the better known sight. Three days by river from Georgetown leads to the foot of the cataract, near Demerara. Georgetown serves as a terminal for the Canadian National Steamships route. A travel tip suggests bolting meals to prevent sea sickness.
The text explains that Trinidad was named by Columbus during his first sighting, linking the name to the Spanish form of Trinity. It notes three mountains and mentions other islands with colors or locations, suggesting origins for various island names in the New World.
A partial OCR snippet shows casual dinner mentions with ham beet tongue and a stray phrase about the front end of a company, indicating disrupted text from a historical page.
A fashion note describes a wrap around design that flatters a mature silhouette. It highlights surplicé closing diagonal seaming and quarter length sleeves with flares, velvet shawl collar, and contrast canton crepe frock as key styling elements.
Directory items include Dr J A McNiven physician surgeon at Corner Bower Avenue and Elgin Street with box 33 contact, Harold Nash farmer Barrister Perry man Block Acton Ontario, Langdon Barrister Notary Public on Main Street Acton with appointments, mortgage loans service, A J Buchanan D D S dental surgeon in Leishman Block by appointment with Wednesday closed and phone 145.
Local advertises services for binding and repairing various account books and periodicals. Claims experience with repairs for other jewellers across Canada and offers prompt, neat billing and service from Wyndham Street Guelph Ont near Williams Store.
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