30 Mar 1933
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 30, 1933
Page
1
A bright April morning finds Ellen and Phyllis in a cheerful village setting as Ellen sews gowns from gray linen that become rainbowed through her dreams. The scene highlights domestic craft, youthful beauty, and the pride of mothers in a small town.
A 1913 column notes Plymouth Rock hens laying 97 eggs in a week and business moves including W D Anderson selling express and cartage to John Bauer. It reports Trent foundations at Station Hotel, electric road camps filling, Lamont McMillan buying a drug business in Toronto, and a caricatured job inquiry from Salvatore de Falco abroad. Marriage notice: Percy T Robinson to Eva Elizabeth Moore in Toronto.
Dorothy witnesses a plainsman Maylan meet her aristocratic East family. The father feared social missteps, but Maylan proves poised, smart, and respectful. A shock revelation from the father ends with Maylan proposing to Dorothy, and they plan a private talk.
The lesson outlines Jesus' ministry to a Syrophoenician woman in Tyre and Sidon, highlighting faith overcoming barriers and the healing of a daughter possessed by a demon. It discusses the woman's persistence, Jesus testing faith, and the resulting blessings, plus a case of deaf and dumb healing and a note on spiritual openness.
A Dominion Experimental Farm supervisor from Brandon Manitoba stresses wind shelter as essential for prairie gardens. Use a two tier barrier: tall trees spaced to block over all, and dense low hedges to stop ground wind near the beds. Combines high trees in back with a dense hedge surrounding the garden for best protection.
The doctor's child answers a door inquiry about the physician being home. The caller pretends to be a visitor and reveals a supposed sum of 126 dollars as the meaning of a code or joke, leaving the scenario unclear and odd. The dialogue hints at deception or misdirection surrounding a request.
An old Southern planter speaks with a enslaved man named Sam about life after death. The planter asks Sam to describe the hereafter if he dies first, and Sam replies that if the planter dies first he wants him to return in daylight to tell him what it is like.
A classroom exchange analyzes parts of speech in the sentence Tom married Jane. The teacher and boy assign Tom as a noun and Jane as a verb, while married is described as a con junction linking the two names.
A classroom exchange prompts a joke as a teacher asks about a woman who keeps talking when others lose interest and a boy responds with a plea for permission.
A Stranger declares an honest living while a Native retorts that there is little competition nearby. The terse exchange hints at local labor dynamics and informal markets without further detail.
An elderly woman asks her minister to explain the difference between a caus and a seraphim. The minister pauses then says they had a real difference but they have made it up, delivering a quip about the terms.
The artist Mr J K Gardiner lists the individuals whose sketches will appear this week. The names are sealed in an envelope in THE FREE PRESS safe and will be handed to judges after the contest closes. Weights of the contestants will be checked by the judges and their measured weights will determine the awards.
Timetable snippet shows trains running daily with Sunday exception. Eastbound Chicago limited passes through Georgetown at 9.35 pm with Georgetown stop at 9.44 pm. Evening services noted for Sunday and daily variations.
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