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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1933
Page
6
A kitchen note shares how to make Strawberry Tapioca Flamingo serving eight. It guides crushing berries, cooking quick tapioca with water and salt, adding berry juice, chilling, then folding in whipped cream and topping with more berries.
A reflective passage questions if any resting place exists beyond sorrow and death. Faith Hope and Love reply yes in Heaven. The column then shifts to local notes: warm and cool weather, Churchill garden party with Jimmy Fox, plans to revisit Acton in 1883 memories, and various Halton County historical items.
Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs then oatmeal coconut orange juice and rind. Stir in dry ingredients. Drop by teaspoon onto greased sheets and bake at 380 to 400 degrees F. Nuts or candied orange peel may substitute for coconut.
Prepare junket by mixing two powder types with 1 pint milk and 1 cup whipping cream chill. Just before serving whip 474 cups of cream with 2 tablespoons cherry juice and beat egg white with 1 tablespoon sugar until stiff. Fold into cherry cream and serve atop junket.
Pare and slice two oranges and dip in a batter with flour sugar milk egg and butter then fry until golden. Serve with orange sauce made from orange juice water sugar and cornstarch. Prepare fruit caramels by steaming figs raisins dates walnuts and orange peel then chopping and binding with orange juice.
Brown argues in a concluding line that every time he looks at Smith he feels he is being deprived of entertainment tax revenue. The exchange frames a neighbor dispute over tax collection and public entertainment funding.
Miller's Worm Powders claim to expel intestinal worms and repair damage they cause. They purportedly invigorate the constitution and speed recovery from digestive disorders caused by parasites.
A humorous collage shows children challenging adults with quirky questions and phrases. Dialogues reveal playful mishearing and social faux pas around visitors, cleanliness, and family sayings.
George M. Walker a CN Rail conductor in Michigan long served the company for over 40 years and twice crossed paths with Henry Ford during his car venture. Ford offered Walker a stake in his industry but mortgage risk and a large family kept him from joining the wealth plan. Walker retains friendship with Ford and says he is content with his pension and career.
At an Edinburgh meeting of the Society of Antiquaries Professor James Ritchie of the University of Aberdeen described a bog butter find on Skye. A wooden keg, 21 inches high, was dug from six feet depth by Hugh Mackay in spring 1931. The butter had hardened over centuries to a rancid, chalky mass with a faint sweet-tallow taste. The keg shows lifting projections and a back-strap for a pack pony. Peat burial of butter was common in the Highlands and Ireland to preserve it in the absence of salt, with theories about long burial ripening flavor and accidental concealment in this case possibly due to forgotten burial site or warfare.
A Dominion Cerealist, Mr. L. H. Newman, argues that individual farmer viability hinges on yields per acre. He warns that low per acre output forces farmers to cut living standards or exit production, impacting the ability to keep commerce moving.
The piece warns that mercenary motives ruin popularity and urges readers to seek genuine regard by liking others. It stresses looking for the good in people and avoiding constant fault finding, noting that kindness, interest, and generosity win respect from all.
Poetic reflection urging moral restraint and compassion. Emphasizes kindness toward the weak and needy, curb of harmful language, avoiding obscene swearing, and living honestly. Encourages making others happy and avoiding lust and greed, while noting divine consequence for wrongdoing.
Ross Farquhar records a week of tiny misadventures and domestic quirks in Slats Diary. Emmy jokes about astronomy and telegraphed quilts while Mr Clung is caught stealing neckties. Aleck Strum’s quick remarriage sparks rumors and Effy Blunt swaps fiction for biographies. Ankel Hen wins a Grange prize for old fashioned habits.
Persian Balm provides quick relief from windburn and rough weather effects. It soothes and refreshes the skin while absorbing gently and leaving no sticky residue. This formula purports to soften and brighten the complexion, preserve natural beauty, and impart a subtle elegance.
A sermon quotes Emerson urging readers to beware desires that lead to disaster. It warns riches and popularity as temptations, praising dreams backed by effort and urging pursuit of the highest aims rather than worldly passions.
A playful exchange questions the type of illumination aboard Noahs ark. Little Tommy answers with a concise claim that there were lights onboard, framing light as a notable feature of the biblical voyage.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture and provincial governments are leading control efforts against warble flies. Ontario conducts a large campaign on Manitoulin Island while Calumet Island in Quebec runs a municipal program along the Ottawa River. Warble flies are widespread pests of cattle and occasionally affect people.
A fragment quotes a newlywed couple over supper with jokes about a burned steak and a remedy. Dr. Philip Schaff is cited on love and strength being deepened by widening.
Notice to creditors of Mary Jane Watson and Agnes Myrtle Bielby executrices issued by H N Farmer solicitor Acton Ontario for estate administration.
The creditors of Catharine Duffy of Acton Halton and formerly Toronto widow who died about March 29 1933 must send full names addresses and claim particulars to The Guelph Trust Company and William Duval Executors by July 10 1933. Solicitor H N Farmer Acton Ontario.
A police officer and Spooner concur on a roadside parking sign reading Finé TM for Parking. Spooner confirms agreement with the sign as the officer notes the message. The exchange underscores mutual approval of local parking guidance.
In a terse exchange Cohen questions the subject while Ikey asserts the woman is exceptionally attractive. The dialogue emphasizes physical appeal with a boastful insistence that description requires more than ordinary terms.
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