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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1934
Page
9
Reports mention hockey games in Acton Preston and Milton with injuries and spectator interest. A director meeting planned improvements for Acton Fair next September. Also notes ice carnival in Toronto and local sports chatter.
A columnist laments over standardized social conventions and ready made advice. He recalls an elderly widow case showing misreading social cues and how even simple topics fail without sensitive approach. The piece contrasts past plain talk with today’s obsession with scripted responses.
The Toronto market lists quotes for creamery solids No 1 at 29 percent, seconds 28 to 29, and other grades. Prices cover ungraded sees, fowl fattened, old roosters, white ducklings, and domestic rabbits with varied weights. Wholesale rates for Ontario, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island potatoes, hides, wool, tallow, and hay are provided, alongside grain quotations for Manitoba wheat, buckwheat, and related prices on the Toronto Board of Trade.
A schoolyard exchange attributes genius to Thomas Edison. The boy cites the phonograph and radio as inventions to keep people awake, and mentions his electrical light bulbs. The wording reflects a playful misstatement of Edison’s era inventions.
Captain invites all Girl Guides to the Acton Public School music room at 7 30 on Saturday for a regular meeting and to settle into new quarters. Recruits and younger Guides may be accompanied by patrol leaders for a group entry. Tenderfoots passed this week and several others near tests.
The article notes flour as a basic human necessity and describes global milling as varied from home grinding to advanced industrial mills. It highlights flour as a key traded commodity with world exports averaging over 35 million barrels from 1927 to 1932, mainly supplied by Canada the United States Australia Argentina and Danubian countries.
The minister pleads for the old man to repent his sins. The elder offers a counterproposal to attend church if the minister answers a single question. The minister retorts that true religion requires stopping concern with other men’s wives.
Readers in Acton Ontario submit letters to the Free Press outlining hopes for the Murray Memorial Building. They call for a central, multiuse facility with library space public restrooms and a gym and emphasize employment and inclusion for all townsfolk while urging timely action and prudent use of the bequest.
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