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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 01, 1934
Page
14
A poetic meditation on life's passage from dawn to dusk. The speaker asks for strength to begin early each day and to finish duties promptly, seeking fairness and quiet acceptance at the close of the stage. The voice pleads for mercy and justice from the God of Dawn and the God of Dusk.
A vintage menu offers creative chicken approaches beyond frying or roasting. Recipes include Merango style with butter onion carrot turnip and tomatoes plus sugar to heighten flavor. Mexican Chicken uses stuffing from mashed potatoes raisins and milk with tomato sauce and parsley for a browned finish. Also included is a coffee junket dessert using milk cream and gelatin.
A nostalgic column compiles 1884 memories from Acton including taxation, a hotel fine, the Scott Act vote, weather notes, fire events, and early infrastructure like fire apparatus and telephone wires. It recalls Local customs, tobogganing, and Hallowe'en pranks while contrasting past and present.
The advert praises Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as providing prompt relief from asthma and to safeguard the future. It claims systematic inhaling of its smoke or fumes prevents re-attacks and often yields permanent relief for the afflicted.
Six chops broiled with melted butter and orange slices. Trim fat, brush with butter, broil, top with peeled orange slices, return to broiler, finish, and season with salt pepper and paprika for serving hot.
Recipe for iced orange consomme serves eight. Gelatine soaks in water, then dissolves in heated orange juice with sugar. Cool, add remaining juice, chill several hours, stir occasionally, add orange pieces and mint sprigs to serve cold as a first course.
A survey shows glass jars are the preferred container for Canadian honey in Britain with 92 percent of shops in London and 94 percent in Glasgow stocking honey in glass. Canada’s 1933 honey crop reached 19,543,500 pounds valued at 1,706,800 dollars, exports rose 22.1 percent to 2,806,770 pounds worth 281,657 dollars, the U.K. accounting for 2,213,899 pounds valued at 254,090 dollars.
A home remedy suggests using Parmint double strength mixed with hot water and sugar, consumed four times daily to relieve head noises and catarrhal deafness. Claimed benefits include opened nostrils easier breathing and reduced mucus in the throat.
W. T. Anderson, editor of the Macon Telegraph and publisher of the Macon Telegraph and Macon Evening News, argues that not all advertising pays. He compares good advertising to proper fish and criticizes novelties, circulars, and blind faith radio ads while praising newspapers for honesty and the buyer's trust in truth and accuracy.
Acton Ontario financial notice announces a mortgage money lending service located at 83 Mill Street with hours from 9 30 a m to 5 00 p m and Saturday hours till noon.
Acton and Georgetown advertise cafe appointments at T Seynuck's on Main Street. Office hours in Acton Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1.15 p m to 4 30 p m with evenings available on request.
Business card style notice lists dentists Dr A J Buchanan and Dr P W Perain with hours and phone, then veterinary surgeons Dr A G Bruyns and Dr Thos Kain with contact numbers and offices in Acton Ontario, plus E N Harrop BVSc and a Guelph bookbinder offering bound account books and periodicals binding on Wyndham Street.
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