Acton Citizens Band to Play Another Sunday Concert
The Acton Citizens Band will hold another Sunday evening concert on March Blet. The United Church Young People Society of Rockwood and Acton Churches hosted a skating party at the Arena with lunch served in the United Church school room after. A Chinese Chow dog belonging to Mr Chas By men was run over by a hay wagon last Friday with serious back injuries. the dog is improving and likely to survive.
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Acton Citizens’ Band
United Church Young /People's Societies
Rockwood
Acton
United Church
Chas. Bymen
Eequering Council
Mullin
Councsillors
G. W. Murray
W. A. Wilson
George Currie
L. L. Mullin
Parmere’ Crettors
Hyatt Bobbie
Sarah Dobbie
Exquesing
Hyatt
Sarah Dobble
W.A. Wilson
Motion Pictures Industry In Canada In 1933
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1933 motion picture theatre receipts in Canada totalled 924 954 200 exclusive of amusement taxes with 824 theatres employing 5 238 people and paying 4 444 200 in wages. Attendance and per capita spend declined amid economic strains and price competition with disparities across provinces.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Varloux
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Effendancy
Mount
Beggar School Unearthed by Cairo Police
Police in Cairo uncovered a school for beggars training about 100 young boys in begging methods after arresting a ten year old missing child. The tutor was detained and authorities say many families had been searching for their sons. The operation involved multiple youths taught to work city streets as beggars.
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Cairo
Egypt
Col
Notable Obituaries and Death Notices From Norval and Georgetown
Deaths include John Wiggins of Norval at 68 from a heart attack after clerical work. Dr. A. P. Chown of Oakville, 77, dies of heart attack after a long medical career. Andrew Kyle Anthony, Georgetown resident, dies at home in his 50s. Funeral services held with regional attendance. multiple survivors and community leaders noted.
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John Wiggins
Norval
Saturay
Mr. Wiggins
Peel County
David
Guelph
Robert .Ac
Windsor
Gamaf
Milwaukee
And
Albert
New We
A. P. Chown
Oakville
Queen's , University Medical Corps
London
Folkestone
Belgium
Hoe
R. J. Edmunds
Ottawa
A. 8
Alce Chown
Toronto
Harry Chown
Winniped
S.A. Chown
Renfrew
Curious Floating Islands Near Mexico City Chinampas Expand
A historical account describes chinampas on Lake Xochimilco near Mexico City, where flowering vegetables are grown on rafts and tied with poplar stakes. It notes natural floating islands formed by tangled vegetation, and mentions a large man made formation in the Mississippi delta reaching ten miles long by 600 yards wide and eight feet deep during floods, ultimately removed by Louisiana authorities.
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Mexico
Xochimilco
Douisiana
Ka le list of auctions and sales in early March
A historical listing outlines sales and tax sale items across multiple dates in March including Joseph Humilted Shiloh Russell Glennie farm Yarm Stock Arthur Farny Jeracy Curtis Erin D McIntyre and A G M Bruyna Limehouse horses farm equipment and cleaning rules for farm stock with locations in Erin and Eramosa Concession Sixth Concession Lot details and dates through April Ind Adzott Lot 23.
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Enxecutora
Lulu
Joseph Humilted
Shiloh
Russell Glennie
Yarm
Arthur Farny
Cincension
Erin
Jeracy Curtis
D.’ McIntyre
Bruyna
Limehouse
Tueaday
Ind—N
Memorial to a Donkey on California Coast
A granite tombstone memorial travels with a trailer along the Southern California coast to honor Cinnamon Pete the donkey. Pete gained fame for clever hay theft, prompting farmers to fund his feed and spare fences, with a memorial inscribed to reflect charity and justice.
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California
Ot Carpinterie
Cinnamon Pete
Virginia Dale
Callifornia
Pete
Discharged maid unsure of reason for departure
Exchange shows uncertainty over why a maid named Jane left. The mistress asks for an explanation while the maid offers a limited reply, indicating confusion about the cause of dismissal.
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Jane
Chicken soup comment fools the cook in a punny exchange
A wry dialogue features a leadlady apologizing that the chicken soup isn’t good after explaining the recipe to the cook. A boarder quips that the problem is the chicken itself, joking that the cook didn’t catch the idea or the price.
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Leadlady
Esquesing Council Holds Two Meetings In March
Esquesing Council conducted two meetings in March with Reeve George Currie presiding. Minutes from the prior session were approved and officers discussed payments, hydro power contracts, relief accounts, road expenditures, and utilities, adjourning to April 5.
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Esquesing Council
L. Mullin
G. W. Murray
A.robinson
W. A. Wilson
George Currie
Jenkins
Hardy
Hydro Electric Power Commission
George
E. Ellioth
A. Molozzic
J . Mullin
Cv. G. Parlow
ML. Bennett
Snyder Frans
Port Cae
Kevagystve Baxsbaapebeeconismaesee
Acton Public Utilttes Commission
Crescent
Bell Telephone Co
George E. Ellott
JW. Sanford
J. Sanford
Yglus
G. W. Allurray
N. A. Robinson
Board of Wealth
G Gl.mullin
Hydro Electric Power Communion
GL. L. Mullin
Carriid
Blue Moon A Sight Reported In Santa Barbara
Parez Sim mons of Fresno California writes to Science that he observed a blue moon at Santa Barbara on September 15 1934. Witnesses noted the moon visible after sunset through thin clouds with a blue ring around the sky. Reports compare with historical color moon phenomena and volcanic activity but offer no solid explanation.
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Parez Sim
Mons
Mresno
Cal
Scienre
Santa Barbara
California
Kragatoa
Eavesdropper origin and meaning in historical homes
The term eavesdropper arises from wide eaves extending over land enabling rain to fall on a neighbor’s property. A person within this range could hear conversations inside a house, making them literally within the eaves drop and called an eavesdropper.
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Anothar
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Winnipeg
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Detroit Free Press
Beggar's School
Iuly
Wellington County Council
Erin Agricultural Soclety
Erin Cemetery
Erin Conservative Association
Burns’ Presbyterian Church
Herid
Mary Cathrine
Andrew K. Anthony
Georgetown
Andrew Kyle Anthony
Hom
Greenwood
W. ©. Bessey
Chinguxbousy
Brampton
Anthony
Nis_Hie
Peeland Halton
Presbyterian Church
W. C. Anthony
Pred Howes
Listowel
W. C. Bessay
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Fergus
Hillsburg
Woodstock
Aylmer
District
Dr. Howard
Knox Presbyterian Church
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Y. Keer
Kale
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E. Harrop
Gore District Mutual Norwich Union
The
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the Casualty of Canada Assurance
the Merchants Casualty Co
Pictage-le-Prairie Mutual
Papillon & Duval Acton
Acton Chopping
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Inchea
Whytewasil
Hinton
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Patterson
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