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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 16, 1931
Page
6
The poem urges forgetting every praise and slander after outcomes and favors. It counsels remembering kindness received and keeping promises. It emphasizes gratitude, repaying debts, and sharing praise with others instead of hoarding it.
Betty Barclay offers tangy summer dishes and drinks with tart notes and pickled accents. Recipes feature tartare sauce, pineapple dessert, raspberry drinks, and pineapple ginger ale, plus a health note on fruit minerals for cooling days. The text also includes an agricultural notice on trap-nest testing in hens and a quippy exchange about offers and kindness.
Deacon Hyne questions Clayton Briggs about treating Caleb Peaslee to lemonade after a morning dispute. Caleb recalls Briggs vowed a wager that testing him would win a drink, then exposes a past memory carved in stone and letters from the old schoolhouse.
A detailed list of 1931 automobile license plate codes allocated to Ontario districts. The record names cities and towns from Toronto to Port Hope among others, with many alphanumeric prefixes and regions such as Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton, Sudbury, Windsor, and Peterborough. The compilation covers numerous districts and marks the official assignments for pleasure cars in the year.
Fragmentary ad copy claims Dr J D Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy banishes night agony and relaxes air passages. It asserts grateful relief from oppressive symptoms, enabling sufferers to sleep and function.
A visitor questions the size and purpose of a locomotive in the shop while a guide explains some components and the term locomotive dollar. The exchange hints at steam era practices and the curiosity of a young graduate in a technical setting.
A fragmentary exchange shows Womty-Tomey and Twubby in a terse banter about reliability and marriages. Wits notes many such lines exist now.
Johnny Mahoney cut his hand badly after a fall. Two Bell Telephone workers nearby heard his cries and applied first aid, saving an artery. Doll Alpine Company offers staff first aid training and many in the Plant Department are qualified as first aiders. Shielded teams compete annually in the divisions.
Henry Bowen head of motive power for Canadian Pacific Railway operates an up-to-date machine shop in his basement Montreal home. He invented tools and a series of model marine engines and the CPR six big new giant five pressure locomotive, the largest of its kind in the world, destined for Rocky Mountain duty.
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