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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 03, 1934
Page
8
A quiet wedding in James American Church Guelph united Eileen Bullivant daughter of Mr and Mrs W Bullivant Georgetown with Alexander Schrag son of the late Mrs Zins Schrag Brampton. Rev F P H Wase officiated. attendants were Louise Bullivant and David Kissock. The couple will reside in Brampton.
Wholesale markets list prices for poultry live stock and dressed meats, with figures for chickens white ducklings rabbits and guinea fowl, plus grain and hay quotations and carlot potatoes. A closing line shows a brief dialogue.
Figures from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics show Canada’s agricultural output rising from 1890 to 1981. Wheat climbed from 42 million to over 420 million bushels. oats from 83 million to about 425 million. cattle and swine slaughter rose to over 2 million and 3.8 million respectively. Field crops expanded across million acres. overall output valued at dollars with manufacturing growth following.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a dinner service in a high class hotel with mention of in carte options and beverages. The readable words suggest a dining context but lack coherent details or names, places, or dates to form a full news item.
A large gathering of Toronto Guides marked Toronto’s centennial with a rally attended by about 14,500 spectators and 900 visiting Guides. The opening ceremony featured a band led entry, flag salutations, a Brownies St George and the Dragon pageant, and a 3 500 Guide march past. Campfire closing with Taps brought the event to a reflective finish.
An agricultural bulletin notes a marked shortage of high quality draught stallions due to aging, mortality, and reduced breeding. It cites a 6000 head drop in stallions from 1930 to 1932 and warns the 1934 outlook could improve only slowly with breeding constraints remaining tight.
A Canadian Animal Products Trade Commissioner in Great Britain notes that branded cattle depress hide value by damaging splitting quality. He says branding, especially on neck or leg, reduces usable hides for upholstering in the motor car trade, affecting profits from weight gains and health.
Notices report the deaths of W Dewar Milton bandmaster and postmaster aged in his sixties. John B Scott Milton farmer Liberal with four daughters and funeral in Knox Church. Arthur S Forster Oakville editor and public man dies at 63, funeral held with simple rites.
Sam Hopkins accidentally shot himself during a hunt. One wound is fatal while friends report the second is not serious. The item appeared in last week's Brushville Bugle.
Garden seeds advertised include lawn seed Victoria Park and Shady Nook, White Dutch Clover, sweet peas Spencer's Choice mixture priced 150 an ounce, Dutch onions scarce at 20c per lb, field root seeds all kinds and prices, gladioli offered in lots of 1 000 butts with prices 250 300 350 per dozen, and mixed choices at 150 per dozen. Contact Woodhall Muselle at phone 3116.
New shipment offers wallpaper books paper blinds and curtains at special Thursday to Saturday pricing. Includes Eureka house paints varnish quick drying stain gloss floor wax turpentine putty brushes lemon oil and whitewash brushes along with stair treads tables and paper products.
Canada shipped automobile tires to 67 nations in February with the United Kingdom, British South Africa, Brazil, New Zealand, and others as major buyers. Tire castings exports were valued at $404,746, up from $263,422 a year earlier. Rubber sole exports to 22 countries were led by the United Kingdom and Argentina, totaling $151,173 versus $46,622 last year.
Dialogue reveals Tom and Henry sharing a cringe moment about calling on Mabel. Mabel’s mother questions intentions, then Mabel herself shouts from upstairs with a misheard line, creating a comic, awkward scene.
A quirky exchange questions the doctor’s claim that good health rests on eating onions. The practical speaker presses for how such a secret can be kept, turning the dialogue into a humorous confrontation about health lore.
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