Acton Social and Personal Notes Show Wide Holidaying Attendance
Numerous entries list residents and visitors in Acton area travelers and relatives staying at homes, in Oakville, Toronto, Detroit, and Niagara Falls. Couple engagements announced include Mable G Dods and Fred W Rowan, and Alix Cara Well and David Crolile Henderson with weddings planned mid to late August.
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Thomas Archibald Cara Well
Galt
Alix
David Cbrilale V Henderson
Preston
David M. Henderson
Gall
Treatment for External Parasites of Foultey
A historical poultry advice note stresses summer vigilance against body lice and mites. It recommends cleanliness, dust baths, sulfur dusting, a vent-area salve with cautions, roost painting to deter vermin, and thorough house cleaning with disinfectants and coal tar solutions, plus the Central Experimental Farm’s recommended remedy.
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Winck Leaf 40
Poultry Division
Central Experimental Parma
Geoge Robertson
Central Experimental
Ottawa
Cooking Vegetables Into the Diet by Barbara B Brooks
Practical guide with older home style recipes to hide vegetables in meals. Includes pork and rice stir fry, stuffed peppers with tomato sauce, and baked casserole ideas using leftovers and common pantry items. Uses simple steps and yields for six servings per dish.
Four Words to Avoid Seed Planting Pitfalls for Gardeners
The article warns amateurs to sow seeds carefully to prevent failures. It stresses keeping moisture even, avoiding overheating, and providing proper soil depth. With guidance on gentle covering and compacting soil, it advises using fresh, well pulverized earth and consistent moisture for successful germination.
Readers hear from W R Black on Western Canada crop outlook
A correspondent from the Peace River district in Northern Alberta reports good crops with oats and wheat as staples. Prices run twelve cents a bushel for oats and thirty cents for wheat, while soil near Moose Jaw area declines and Highway graveling improves transit. The journey notes the Peace River at Dunvegan with its 700 foot banks and a 600 yard wide, 18 to 20 foot deep channel.
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Alberta
Sankatoon
Saskatchewan
Acroas
North Dakota
Haskatchewan
Moose Jaw
Ontario
U.E. A
Peace River
Dunvegan
Canada
Peace Tver
Battlement
Memory Lapse at Class Leaves Teachable Moment
A professor laments forgetting a pupil’s name during a lesson while a wife asks what is the matter. The humorous exchange centers on memory, instruction, and the difficulty of recalling a student’s identity.
Sherlock and Sir Hwerslock in tales of fame and folly
The text recounts Arthur Conan Doyle’s reactions to spoof letters about Sherlock Holmes including a knighted name change and jokes from readers worldwide. It notes anecdotes from a French school party and letters from Norbert Louis Stevenson about misunderstandings and the craze for the detective.
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Gherlock Holmes
Greas
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bher
Aly
Howardly
London
Dakar Street
Sherlock Wolmes
Shorlock Tfolmen
Nolve
Samoan Islands
Nobert Louis Stevenson
Vallima
Gimite
Mittle Lea
Adjusting Overhead in a Fringe Society Tale
A clipped dialogue reveals a society formed to end tipping. A man from Aberdeen remarks approvingly while members discuss a fifty cent monthly fee, debating affordability and the cost of the effort. The fragment hints at social satire on customs and money.
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Aberdeen
Market Reports Dairy Products and Wholesale Prices
Toronto quotations cover dairy products poultry and eggs to retail and wholesale trade. Listings include creamery products, churning cream, pasteurized milk, fresh and dressed meats, potatoes and other wholesale vegetables, hides wool and grain quotations with ranges for farm and country delivery.
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Toronto
Bogota
Barver
F.o.b
Opecul v
Galtallans
SenLey
Hetail
Speciallst Hearing Improves Patient Confusion Cured
A transcript fragment shows a lone specialist shouting about improved hearing and a cure. The patient asks for price while mishearing words, and a mis-spelled exchange about dollars appears. The scene suggests a comic or optical miscommunication in a medical setting.
Liner Orila to end service in dramatic sea burial
After three decades as a famed Liverpool to South America liner, the 9000 ton Orila of Pacific Elsum Navigation will not go to shipbreakers. Instead it will be sailed full speed to Morecambe Beach to be broken up, accepting eventual scrapping. The ship lies in Liverpool awaiting last orders and will depart with a small crew to meet its fate. The planned beaching aims to wreck the hull and hasten its demise while risking significant damage to nearby shore.
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Yeesula
Liverpool
South America
Mner Orila
Pacific Elsum Navigation Company
Morecambe
Orita
Lverpool
Morecambe Hay
Warner Yes Ten Doctors Have Quit Practice
Ten doctors have given up in a dispute over payments with a patient named Wilder accused of poor behavior toward a physician. The article records Warner's remarks and the woman’s alleged refusal to pay her doctor bills.
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Warner
Wilder
Bila
Dinner Credit Prompted by Beauty Parlor Remark
A diner asks a patron to have a beauty parlor operator reduce his dinner bill. The passerby explains a woman runs the place for reducing figures, and the diner asks her to work on the check before payment.
No Signs of Bourne Yet in Wound Up Confusion
Fragmentary, dialogue filled with ellipses shows a tense exchange about Bourne and feeling wound up. The lines hint at a withheld knowledge or readiness, with dancers of speech implying unresolved questions and concern.
Dollar Down Dandies lampooned in satire piece
A humorous take targets buyers who purchase on a dollar down plan for radios cars and appliances. It envisions an Indian prince selling surplus elephants and imagines awkward contrasts with unemployment fruits, reflecting on consumer credit and vanity.
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