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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 14, 1932
Page
5
The Community's Social Side of Life lists numerous visits and gatherings across Acton, Galt, Toronto, and surrounding towns. Residents such as Mrs. Alice McPherson and Miss Mona McGeachie are noted visiting relatives, while weddings like Rhodes Purdy at Galt are referenced and local anniversaries celebrated.
Brampton jury reports Harry Longbottom died in Toronto Western Hospital from injuries after a June 26 crash at the No 7 highway and Bolton Road. The verdict finds accidental death with no blame on Parker or McCallum, urging longer stop signs from through highways.
The Bureau of Statistics reports 14 firms in the breakfast foods and cereal industry with total 930 output valued at 8,068,511 dollars, mostly from Ontario. Canada exported 2,476,169 worth of breakfast foods, 98 percent to the British Isles, while imports totaled 264,474, 93 percent from the United States.
N G describes a years delay blamed on his fingerprints after a poorly handled operation. He quotes modern science as costly to his life. The piece highlights public frustration with passport processing and identity verification issues.
A business man recalls choosing his junior partner over a promising boy who swept with the wind while another sweeps with it, facing dust blown back and inefficiency. The cleaner, quicker worker showed initiative and good sense, becoming the successful partner.
A poetical obituary laments Andrew G. McGense and Jasper Ewing Drakes. The willow and tree imagery frame a tribute to lives affected by a crash, urging sympathy for bereaved families and a call for safe driving.
Sunday schools join for a Stanley Park Erin picnic featuring races and contests. Highlights include under 6 to under 16 races, three-legged events, shoe races, and a 16 to 13 baseball result between Limehouse and Churchill. Oldest attendee 84-year-old Joel Leslie. youngest 12 days Vivian Janet Hil.
A lecturer spoke for about an hour on persistent effort with the motto Push and keep pushing. A small heckler cried that gas was needed to light a village bonfire, prompting the speaker to retort that many would still have to push to survive.
Acton village enacts by-law 660 licensing hawkers and pedlars. No license fee set at one hundred dollars, valid one year. Exempts selling to retail dealers or producers and their agents. Penalties up to fifty dollars per offense with possible distress sale or jail up to twenty one days. Passed July 4, 1932.
Quotations to shippers and retailers list prices for butter creamery No 1 pasteurized 16 percent and 18 percent, eggs and poultry live and dressed by weight, and wholesale beef pork lamb mutton. Grain quotes show No 1 Northern wheat and barley oats rye corn with c.i.f bay ports. Ontario potatoes and hides prices are included.
A father scolds his son who forgot where the Azores are by joking about keeping things in school. The exchange turns on locating the archipelago and the need to remember where he places items.
The twelfth annual review of the Origin and Quality of Commercial Live Stock Marketed in Canada notes hog marketings increased about 342,000 head from the previous year. Yard and plant sales led, with direct to packing plants second smallest, while select hog quality remained strong despite higher production.
The patient tells the doctor they feel a bit better yet remain short of breath. The physician cautions that the condition cannot be fully cured with a few more treatments.
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