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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 27, 1937
Page
7
In a memory of childhood two girls live side by side and argue over a shared yard. They declare they do not want to play together yet soon reconcile with a kiss. Their quarrel fades as school days pass, leaving fond dreams of friendship and shared memories.
Two decades back the Free Press notes slow trout in Corporation Pond with Master Jordan Lawson catching a footlong beauty. Weather records report May 4 as the coldest in 76 years. the 64th Battalion is at East Sandling Camp with the 2nd Canadian Reserve. Pte George Green is wounded, Pte Peter Melloride listed killed, and John L Moore’s memorial service in the Methodist Church is described. MARRIED ADSETT SPEIGHT at Toronto home of the bride’s parents. Florence Mae Speight becomes Mrs Charles Adsett of Toronto.
The Northwest Territories stretch from Hudson Bay to Alaska and from Manitoba to British Columbia, covering about 1.5 million square miles. Population is around 15,000 including Indigenous peoples. Summers are short but warm, enabling some crops, with timber, furs, and a growing mineral sector highlighted by radium, pitchblende, and oil prospects around Great Bear Lake, Yellowknife, and other sites.
Gwendoline F Clarke writes of spring seeding at Ginger Farm with oat sprouts and alfalfa hay, noting mixed crop promise and the constant chase of livestock. She jokes about Home Improvement Plan effects on her health and wardrobe while Partner handles grain, painting shutters, and farm duties amid aging buildings and looming loan needs.
The lesson recalls Jacob’s prolonged struggle as a divine teaching that true entry into the divine plan comes not by human strength but by God’s. After being emptied of himself, Jacob confesses and prevails, receiving the new name Israel and power with God and man, with lifelong marks from the Pentic encounter.
A blacksmith shows an apprentice how to shape a horsehoe. The novice follows orders exactly and yet never bites a blacksmith again, illustrating a cautionary moment about teaching and fear in the shop.
Two colored troopers quarrel over space at a mess hall. One warns the other to get behind him or he will knock him out of the house and home. The other retorts that he has no home to defend. The exchange ends with mutual ribbing about family and place.
A troubled speaker reflects on recent hospital stays and declares resolve to begin a definite Home Improvement project to rejuvenate his “poor old man” and home. He urges family to support the plan and denies needing external aid.
Psychologists urge attention to the sleeping room as a key to rest. The article describes a Canadian Home Improvement Plan funded project transforming a bedroom with soft green repapering, silver gray woodwork, rewiring, and new layout to create a restful, elegant space with a dreaming table by the window and coordinated blue textiles.
A guide stresses clean cool storage and careful handling of milk, warning against air exposure contamination and mixing new with old. An anecdote follows about a Transkei official’s bride asking for a cocktail shaker at a trading station, the clerk replying with feather dusters as an alternative.
Canada's fur industry now a national pursuit with over 100000 silver fox pelts produced yearly. Prince Edward Island houses the earliest successful fox breeding, while Quebec and Ontario exceed New Brunswick, Manitoba, and Alberta in fox numbers. Mink farming also expands with more than 30000 pelts sold last year.
A humorous exchange about a woman turned into wood and another who is dumb for years yet speaks after a wheel is picked up in a cycle shop. The lines mimic a vaudeville style pun duel with rapid repartee.
A young pupil in an American school resists sewing class, claiming it beneath dignity for a child. The principal cites George Washington seaming as a precedent, prompting the boy to ponder whether he is better than the first president. The exchange unfolds as the boy remains reflective about duty and role models.
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