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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1935
Page
7
Twenty years ago The Free Press notes a Friday with 82 degree heat, exam results across four centres, a street bowling match won by the visitors, rising berry picking, land purchase in Nassau guweya Township, and letters from Acton natives. Births and deaths are listed with local names and dates. Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil advertised for cuts and sprains with general health claims.
Fragmentary verse lines describe meadow scenes and playful chatter about feet, bells, and drinking. The text presents disjointed fragments featuring expressions like no wonder and tinkle, with odd spellings and scattered quotes.
Advice urges swimming skills and rescue knowledge for a safe break. It warns against diving in unknown waters and drinking before swimming, stressing to avoid unsupervised or dangerous areas and to teach children water safety. It frames choices as paths toward prosperity or moral decline.
A diary piece from Ginger Farm recounts a boy asking to mend his worn pants and a mother’s quiet duties. It reflects on family responsibility, motherhood, and the author’s hospital memories of dawn birds near a window.
The zoo polar bears hate cold water and avoid baths when temperatures fall below fifty degrees. They circle tanks with backs to ice, testing it with their hind feet. Elephants are oiled from head to foot but their skin cracks in cold weather, inviting dirt and insects. oil can help but leaves them looking like bronze statues.
The Zamoysk estate in Poland was halved by the family giving about fifty percent to the nation, leaving 250000 acres. Yet the world’s largest estate lies in Australia, Sir Sidney Kidman’s holding, over 39000 square miles, larger than Ireland and several European nations.
Fragmentary prose reflects on a fresh dawn as Carlyle’s verse inspires the sense that today is born anew. The piece contemplates time moving from eternity to day and back into night.
Saskatchewan commercial fisheries rose 18 percent in 1939 over 1933 with a marketed value near $219,700 from a 1933 total of about $186,500. The 1934 catch totaled 4,087,000 pounds, led by whitefish at 2,530,500 pounds valued around $162,000, followed by trout and other species. Exports included shipments to the United States.
They had just become engaged. She says she will love to share all his troubles. He replies he has none. She clarifies she means after they are married.
The article praises Dr Thomas' Electric Oil as a superior muscle and sinew lubricant. It claims it renders muscles pliable, reduces soreness, strengthens for strains, and notes long time users testify to its value for athletic use.
The quotation argues that our character and global fortunes depend on higher natures, offering moral leadership as the path out of chaos and darkness.
The line notes how a winter day starts with a struggle to begin, attributed to Miss Constance Smith, reflecting a reflective, literary sentiment about early hardship and motivation.
A fragment suggests a vicar operates on an individual named Mike revealing illness before its time. The text implies premature death or deterioration of youth and character, with the tone noting exhaustion and moral concern.
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