11 Jun 1931
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 11, 1931
Page
1
A long list of social calls shows residents and visitors in Acton, Toronto, Kitchener, Georgetown, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, and Milton. Families and individuals including the Sopers, Mowats, Dobbie, Moore, Reed, Kerr, and many others are seen hosting or paying calls. Small engagements and notices of health, engagements, and travel pepper the page.
A joke where a patient asks if the doctor is in and the attendant answers that he stepped out for lunch. The patient presses if he will be back after lunch, and the attendant confirms that is exactly why he left.
The Halton Young People's Union hosts a spring rally at Munn's United Church on the Dundas Highway Friday evening June 19 at 8 o'clock. Georgetown and Palermo debate on the topic Religion is a greater factor in world development. Munn's Young People's Orchestra will attend. new officers may be elected.
Main construction on Fairview Cemetery is nearly complete as government funds for unemployment relief run out. Improvements include leveled plots and new roadway, grassed terraces, levelled Cook property lots, and ongoing stone work while preserving the cemetery’s appearance.
At the Halton County Liberal-Conservative Association annual gathering in Milton, officers for the ensuing year were elected including President LeRoy Sargent and vice presidents W. E. McCready James Allen and W. A. Yarrah. Delegates to the Toronto convention were named. A major society wedding followed with Violet Louise Conboy marrying Dr Ralph Nelles Brownlow at Oakwood Avenue Toronto.
Reasons include eggs as a staple for growing girls and for flavoring cake puddings custards and pastries. The text notes eggs provide nourishment and are paired with lean fresh farmed foods. It cites Canada’s federal grading system as consumer quality assurance.
Market report from Toronto lists wholesale quotations for dairy butter creamery No.1 pasteurized 21 to 00, trade butter 23 to 00, churning cream fob country, eggs and poultry prices for shippers and retailers, dressed meats prices for wholesale dealers, hides and wool rates, grain quotations for No.1 Northern 60, No.2 Northern 61.5, No.3 Northern 63, Timothy and straw prices, and Ontario New Brunswick potatoes quoted per bag.
Ontario entomologist CAESAR warned at conferences that poor variety choice and dense planting boosted 1930 losses from the corn borer. He urged using well tested Ontario strains, short dormancy types, sturdy stalks, and moderate plant density to reduce damage and avoid dependence on the Corn Borer Act.
June events drum up comedy and melodrama with Betty Common in She Got What She Wanted and Subway Express featuring Jack Wolt in Chapter 9. Cartoon Kravy Kat Lamba will gamble while Charlie Chaplin appears in Don't Leave Home.
An apparent catalog of agriculture depression in Canada lists factors including reduced consumer purchasing power, restricted U S market access, overproduction and shift to the home market, prices settling in export markets, heavy end-of-season departures of green vegetables, and unusually poor weather conditions in the past season.
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