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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 21, 1931
Page
14
Monday night featured two top euchre teams with Tommy Gibbons defeating Jack Rowles by 32 33 to 23 as Murray McDonald won all nine games. The article lists round scores and notes Wig Nia edged champion-tn-by-their protege RH Lowrie with 83 points.
Daylight saving began in Guelph A May full of outdoor attractions and garden growth emerges. Residents report budding maples and new car models while local dogs are confined again and census work approaches after June 1.
A young Swede waited at the County Judge's office for a license. When asked what kind, he replied in broken English, asking for a hunting license but shouting that he wants a license for something else, revealing confusion and humor in the scene.
An artist Oliver Horford and associate Edward Simmons relate a tale of a peculiar knock at the studio. Horford explains the guest is a well meaning bore who agrees to special knocks for intimate friends to avoid disturbances, but their conversation is interrupted by repeated quick knocks and a retreating footsteps.
A garbled exchange features a caller denying accusations and referencing Greek goats. The text shifts to a product pitch for Miller’s Worm Powders claiming purgative effects and digestive benefits for children and worm elimination.
Advertisement notes granite wall memorials and markers for graves. It touts current equipment and stock quality, urging buyers to visit the plant for monuments corner stones and markers before ordering elsewhere.
Instructional snippet describes using a cut tin can placed into the ground over young tomatoes peppers or eggplants to trap moisture and deter cutworms. As plants grow lift the can gradually. Also mentions Peralan Malm promoting a beauty product named Persian Balm with skin benefits and a fragrance aims at women.
A weekly meeting in Guide Hall featured Captain urging self care and household cleaning as the group imagines a future camp. A Bluebird quipped about “a Guide in kind” as plans include a concert on Friday the 20th at 5 o clock to raise camp funds.
A Canadian newspaper lists major Canadian world progress contributions in recent years. It credits Canada with early railway sleeping cars, flat steamboats across the Atlantic, electric heating and stoves, paper from pulpwood, the panorama idea, helium production, and early telephone trials in Ontario. It notes submarine telegraph, carbide chemistry, standard units, diabetes serum, and the first compound steam engine, assessing their global impact.
A Toronto motorist becomes the first to be charged under a new Highway Traffic Act amendment that makes driving under the influence of drink or drugs an offence. A constable testified the man smelled of alcohol after two glasses of wine and was arrested. the judge noted the act’s strict penalties, with seven days in jail.
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