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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 24, 1934
Page
8
The text presents a stream of reflective prompts about faith, work, and companionship. It urges belief in friends and neighbors, discipline, and keeping humor amid confusion, hinting at a broader moral about perseverance.
The item recalls James Warren of Walkerton surveying an addition to school grounds from W Storey & Son and notes the 1861 ord survey. It mentions Mrs Morris as a Sunday school teacher, Miss Katie as a Methodist soprano, and the Morris family moving to Toronto. A Rockwood baggage car chase ends with a dog overrunning a westbound train. Dr. A W Nixon of Georgetown is the Halton M L A after a Conservative convention in Milton. J R Campbell opens a blacksmith shop on Main Street. A worm exterminator from Mother Graves is praised for children.
The Second Dominion Drama Festival in Ottawa showcased rising Canadian dramatic talent. Hart House Toronto won the top Bessborough trophy for Michael, a Russian play, with Ottawa Drama League’s Marco’s Millions as English runner-up and Le Cercle Moliere Winnipeg capturing French honors. Over 1100 participants performed before more than 50,000 spectators across regional heats culminating in Ottawa.
A narrator reflects on preferring the outdoors to indoor routines and shares a health tale from Ginger Farm. The piece recounts choosing green vegetables and cooking alfalfa as a spinach substitute, then describes a family meal and a friend Noel who advocates roughage despite alfalfa's strong effect on digestion.
Fragmentary OCR Note references names James W. Gerrard and unnamed business figures. The readable bits suggest a casual remark about timing and loyalty among associates, but no cohesive event, date, or location is discernible.
The Eclectric OM is praised as a remarkable liniment with a Nile power attributed to its own. Users report it as the most valuable remedy, with innumerable uses and a long history as a leading liniment for both man and beast.
Field trials at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa studied thirteen crops including wheat oats barley buckwheat peas vetches sunflowers and potatoes. Seed depths ranged from one to eight inches with two inches favored for most crops and deeper depths needed in dry seasons while shallower depths suit very wet seasons.
Curling, a main Canadian winter sport, is described as nearly a language. The Tourist Department of the Canadian National Railways notes terms such as bonspiel for a tournament and in-curves or out-curves now called n-wicking and out-wicking, with sweeping referred to as scooping with a broom.
Production in 1933 valued at 220,502,096 dollars, up over 18 percent from 1932. Gold drove the rise with strong gains in copper lead zinc nickel coal petroleum asbestos and other minerals. Canada ranks near or at top globally in gold silver lead zinc asbestos and nickel, with seven provinces producing gold. Gold bullion mostly shipped to the Royal Canadian Mint Ottawa. after April 19 1933 Canada shifted refined gold from New York to London following the US off the gold standard.
A customer seated at a smart restaurant reportedly used a napkin as a makeshift utensil or prop. The manager intervened, asking staff to explain politely that such behavior is inappropriate. A staff member then demanded the customer choose between a shave or a haircut in a tense exchange.
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