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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Mar 10, 1938

Page

7

Cheerful Tale of Burdens and Tomorrow

An author unknown offers a hopeful verse about choosing cheer over burden and praising companionship. The speaker vows to replace criticism with encouragement and to be a friend to all.

Magic Condensed Milk Sauces and Winter Orange Salads

Readable sections offer quick cut sauce recipes using sweetened condensed milk and fruit based winter salads. Includes Magic Fruit Cream Sauce and Chocolate Marshmallow Sauce with steps and yields, plus Savory Baked Fish and assorted orange fruit combinations.

Yw & Cp

Mice, poison and daily farm life in Chronicles of Ginger Farm

A reader seeks humane ways to stop mice as traps fail and a stray idea of strychnine frightens the writer. The narrative recalls using poison once, worries about Mitchie the cat, and notes that despite best efforts the mice persist. The note also sketches family life, a daughter away from home, gardening, cooking missteps, and a fleeting report on airliner food-condition commentary.

Mitchie Partner

Leather tanning in Canada drives industry and exports

The tanning sector, rooted in agriculture, became a major Canadian industry producing leather for home and export. In 1938 leather gloves reached 7,233,674 pairs with varied hides. overall 1936 leather output valued at 99,204,210 dollars. Ontario led with 87 plants in 1930, Quebec notable for glove output, and early tanneries traced to Talon era in New France.

Canada Dominion Ontario Quebec Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba British Columbia Nova Scotia New Brunswick Talon Montreal France Louis XIV

First Aid For Burns And Scalds In The Tea Pot Method

A early 20th century schoolroom notice explains burn first aid using tea as a tannin antiseptic. It warns most burn deaths come from shock and dehydration while advocating warmth and prompt doctor care. It includes cautions against home remedies and mentions mustard gas and sunburn treatments.

Allah Heder McCullough

Air travel soundscapes and imagined in-flight scenes

The excerpt reflects on engine hums and differences in tone when a plane changes course. It notes how strong imagination makes one feel present in the aircraft and see events as described by the commentator.

Morning Glory and Health Tips: March 16 to 15

A mixed page of daily items for women includes a Thursday March 16d feature on pleasure, a Friday March 11th note on wine, a Saturday March 19th joke, and a Sunday March 13th religious remark. Also tips from Nurse Eliram Home Unit cover syrup preservation, onion odor removal, ink stains, temperature guidance, pulse and respiration norms.

Idol's Crown of Gems for Tirupati Temple Idol

Thousands of precious stones will adorn a new crown for the Tirupati temple idol in the Madras Presidency. The solid gold crown stands over two feet high and more than three feet in circumference, with 2400 cut diamonds, 3900 rubies, 2400 emeralds, 375 sapphires, 200 cut diamonds and other gems. The idol is famed for wealth and is believed to respond to vows in times of distress.

Tirupati Madres Presidency India

Amazon Fly Makes Good Under R D Cleanse Direction

Enzymologists in Trinidad reported the Amazon Fly may help defeat the sugar cane borer. J G Myers led a 470 mile Amazon River voyage from Santarem, enduring wrecks and malaria risks to study the insect. The flies breed in chrysalis for nine days and were shipped home by air, with ten thousand larvae collected.

R.D. Cleanse Georgetown British Guiana Amazon Trinidad J G Myers Santarem

Nearer the Point In What City Was the Nine-Power Treaty Signed

Question asks for the city where the Nine-Power Treaty was signed and notes a cynical remark about adherence. The piece frames a historical inquiry on treaty location and compliance doubts.

Mya

Hints on Fashions by Lisbeth in Palm Beach Style

Fashion notes describe Palm Beach and Miami Beach beachwear for January and February. It highlights one piece, knitted wool suits, trims like decorative belts and rope plaits, with straw hats and cork-soled sandals. The outfits emphasize color harmony, frontier belts, and hand knit stitches.

Palm Beach Miami Beach Palm

Time Tables Geing Eat Dally and Sunday Schedule Notes

Daily timetable notes show eating times and travel windows with departures and arrivals. Standard time sections include daily services except Sundays with specific morning and evening slots and Sunday only entries.

Coaches Leave Acton Eastbound

Fragmented OCR text lists times and codes with no coherent event or entities. No clear people teams places or organizations identified.

Acton

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