26 Mar 1931
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1931
Page
1
A poetic celebration of spring weather and blooming flowers. The speaker notes shifting skies, robin songs, and the joy of April showers. Birds and mower share in the season, as flowers like columbine, snowdrops, and lilies evoke a sunny, lively landscape.
Prom the Isque of The Free Press dated March 30 1911 reports March weather showers improving the land and replenishing cisterns. It mentions Mr Brown selling horses and dairy cows, J J H Denny planning a new brick house on Wellington Street, W D Anderson moving a safe, and various social events including Mrs L G Matthews hosting the Methodist Sunday School Orchestra. Property transactions include Alex A Smith selling a corner lot to Morris Saxon for 3800. George Barber’s Vancouver trip noted as active in building. Mr A M Brown promoted at Metropolitan Bank with Grelys to succeed him. Possible relocation of Mr and Mrs John W Husband to Berlin and a split brick residence on Young Street.
Betty Barclay presents two readable recipes for fish and egg tasties and a fruit omelet. The fish dish uses flaked fish, lemon, bread crumbs, and milk baked in a water bath, yielding eight servings. The fruit omelet combines yolks with sugar and orange juice, folded with stiff whites and marmalade for a golden brown finish. A brief dialogue segment follows.
A reader contrasts a framed landscape with mountains and a lake to a plain option describing the scenery as just like anywhere else. The remark suggests a desire to remove distinctive features to achieve a generic backdrop.
A summary of the first quarter curriculum on Luke's Gospel themes. Lessons cover John the Baptist's birth, Jesus childhood, the forerunner, temptation, healing power, Jesus as teacher, denoting love and fellowship, parables including the Sower and Good Samaritan, missionary work, and temperance ideals.
A fragmentary diary style entry recounts Slats and Emmy amid domestic and social happenings. Topics include weather bets, church plans, and small mishaps, with Hesitation about music and routine winter routines. Names appear as Jake Emmy Ferat and others in a rural, informal diary voice.
A prosperous Long Island village formed a society to study American trees plants and flowers and preserve native species. Private subscriptions enabled purchase of a six acre park beside a pond to display native flora and provide a public playground consistent with New York law. The effort aims to foster patriotism by loving American nature and keeping residents from urban drift.
A harsh set of marital dictates advises a man to deny water to the house, buy a tractor, sell dairy, and starve the wife of comforts. It prescribes letting chickens roam, forbidding grounds for gardens, and a life of neglect with a dining room set only for guests. It mocks treating the wife poorly with calls for constant drudgery.
An essay urging readers to resist total distrust after being fooled. It promotes looking to those who have shown loyalty, especially loved ones like mothers, and warns that complete suspicion ends happiness. The piece also advertises Thorny s electric City standard remedy for burns and injuries.
A stark exchange shows the Sympathizer asking about insomnia and the patient replying that the condition worsens and disrupts sleep even at wake-up time, highlighting a difficult, ongoing struggle.
An advertisement touts Joint-Ease as a wonder emollient that soaks into ligaments and joints to ease stiffness swelling and pain. It claims rapid comfort for rheumatism neuritis sciatica lumbago and backaches and notes the Canadian-made product is sold in many stores with a generous tube guarantee.
Duddy Raymond Darker eighteen, pupil at Bourne mouth Boys Secondary School, judged best boy orator in England. Readings traced to Demosthenes and Demosthenes inspired giants like Webster Pitt Burke Douglas Bryan and Clay. Selected with peers from Europe to travel to America for the world wide contest.
A planned trans Canada voyage starting July 36 from Montreal to Toronto will span rail and road travel across the Dominion. Led by Dean Laird of Macdonald College, the 22 day itinerary includes the Prairies wheat belt, the Rockies, Vancouver to Victoria steamers, and Port McNicoll boat trips with stops at Lake Louise and other cultural sites.
A sailor returning from a long voyage finds a fetter at a port and opens it to reveal only a blank sheet. His friend asks for the identity of the paper while a detective presence hints the note is a letter from home. The gag hinges on misread words and slang.
The article states that about 30 percent of Americans suffer a cold each year and some catch it multiple times. It links cold prevalence to diet and constipation and suggests lemons, rough foods, greens, vegetables, and fruit juice as aids while noting the role of hot lemonades in relief.
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