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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
7
A heartfelt note expresses a private vacancy in the speaker’s life. The speaker invites a loving occupant to share warmth and dreams, noting likely cost is beyond mere money and that living alone remains possible without companionship. Each line hints at desire, restraint, and emotional cost.
Twenty years ago the Free Press notes butter at ten cents lower, potatoes down to 3.76 a bag, and local items including bowling season openers, clergy appointments, a soldier's death, and consular hours. It covers Acton Council bread and milk by-laws, a Walkerton death, and the Try Courtesy highway safety campaign with industrial support and a 50-question driving booklet.
A Ginger Farm column shares humorous trials with sunbathing while gardening to ease rheumatism and preserve health. The writer recalls a clever “brain wave” of sunlit potato planting, plus tips on plant cuttings and a lighthearted anecdote about magazine payments and article submissions.
A personal diary fragment recounts a week with Jane and the author Oliver N Warren. It covers light daily scenes at home and park outings, small family observations, minor misadventures with peenuckle and trees, and a notes on local police and widowed friends.
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics census report finds more women employed in Canada yet the leading occupations remain similar to the past. Domestic service tops with 132000, followed by stenographers and typists, teachers, saleswomen, nurses, and office clerks.
Canadian sugar beet output rose to about 569 000 tons in 1936 from 1935 levels, marking roughly a 22 percent increase. Ontario plantings were around 37 600 acres with strong southern Ontario and Raymond Alberta production, while Alberta surpassed 1935 by 4 400 acres and 47 percent more yield. Refined beetroot sugar output in 1935 stood at 119 857 6608 pounds valued near 4.62 million dollars.
A medical note explains hay fever origins from pollen and dust, naming wind dispersed trees grasses and weeds as culprits. It outlines Alberta pollen zones, mentions poplar and Timothy as key offenders, and notes prevention via skin tests to identify allergens and potential vaccines or antitoxins for many patients.
A passerby recalls a moment with a farmer's wagon drawn by mules. The mules greet the couple with a loud, friendly bawl as they pass. The speaker jokes to his wife about possible relatives by marriage and her amused reply.
Gold production in Canada for January and February totalled 638,619 ounces, a 14.0 percent gain over 1936. At $35.01 per ounce in New York markets, January and February outputs were valued at $10,855,601 and $13,507,360 respectively, with last year recording a national all time high value of $134,060,000.
In Dublin and across Connemara, Donnegal, Clare, Kerry, and coastal islands, villagers recite old folk stories for dictaphone recording. The Irish Folklore Institute, backed by Rockefeller Foundation grants and the Free State Government, has pursued a nine month effort to preserve tales for a museum over five years.
A reader shares an old method to scatter cuttings around a jar and water the jar lightly to keep them fresh. The writer cites exploring forsyiva briar honeysuckle and barberry, promising lively results and encouraging others to try the experiment.
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