09 May 1929
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 09, 1929
Page
1
A poem urging annual Mother's Day and constant gratitude from grown children. The piece celebrates a mother's sacrifices and enduring love, ending with a plea to never let her eyes weep as her children remember her devotion. Edger Guest is credited.
A family diary chronicles a busy week on a farm with heifer calf arrival twin chicks hatchings and cat and hen activity. It blends poultry notes with domestic duties and a meditation on reading education and faith in others to weather life’s reverses.
Kenneth Watkins, pressured to cook after insulting the camp cook, improvises meals with Lina Meade’s help. He trains James the kitchen boy, serves a breakfast and ice cream, and wins Turner’s approval as loggers praise the improvised feast.
A fragmentary list of odd social advice cites church etiquette misrules and rude manners. It includes whispered interruptions during sermons, distracted ushering, and improper public behavior. The piece attributes these views to Charles A. McAlpine and frames them as facetious guidance.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows 193¢ beet sugar production in 1934 at 205,177 tons from 31,111 acres, 0.60 ton per acre. 1933 yields were 150,200 tons from 17,041 acres at 8.87 tons per acre. Refined beet sugar output in 1934 reached 85,770,100 pounds valued at 6,102,045 dollars. 1923 figures were 30,423,160 pounds worth 3,745,200 dollars. A Raymond Alberta plant opened. 1995-36 season planted sugar beets exceed 6,000 acres with an estimated 58,000 tons and 9.78 tons per harvested acre.
Plymouth Motor Corporation officials describe how precise balancing of each moving part and the entire crankshaft assembly ensures smooth operation and reliable performance. The article emphasizes balancing connecting rods, pistons, clutch, flywheel, gears, and wheels to tight tolerances for vibration-free power.
A New York article recounts Edwin Booth granting a pass to a black nurse widow who wishes to see him. Booth delays departure to understand who could obtain access, learning the visit is by a devoted former nurse of his daughter. She ultimately secures two passes for the same evening.
A compilation of historic maxims on leadership character faith self control and personal initiative. Attributed lines include Horace Mann John Ro Matt and Plato reflecting on training truth telling prayer and virtue, ending with a riddle about an archer and his bow and arrow.
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