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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 04, 1936
Page
4
Menu includes cold meat platter potato salad hot rolls olives nut bread sour cream chocolate cake coffee for luncheon buffet supper or picnic. Recipe includes potato salad with dill pickles and optional onion, nut bread with figs and nuts, and sour cream chocolate cake with basic ingredients and baking steps.
A story notes an elderly man failing a civil service exam for a rural mail carrier, objecting to a question about the moon. It contrasts the pull of immediate wages with the lure of lasting achievement, invoking Schiller to frame the idea that great minds seek distant rewards.
A salesman extols a vacuum cleaner but a woman tests it by pulling soot from the chimney and sprinkling the rug. He claims its power, asks for the electric switch, and is told they use gas. A second anecdote has a woman at a function placed between a bishop and rabbi and quips about being a leaf between testaments.
Wendell Todd battles algebra and a rigid professor Bratsley. In a moonlit campus fog he steals exam questions, returns them, and chooses integrity over cheating. The professor absolves him, and Todd learns graduation remains earned by honesty.
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