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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1936
Page
12
The verse from Lieut Col John McCrea is rendered here with a misprint and misspelling about planders fields. The famous poem urges the living to carry on the fallen soldiers torch and keep faith with those who die.
A culinary feature explains drying as a method to preserve fully ripened fruits, with guidance on storage, handling, and flavor impact. It introduces apricots as a versatile dried fruit and provides recipes for pickled dried apricots, apricot bran bread, and apricot marshmallow tarts, including ingredient lists and preparation steps.
The article recalls Acton’s early burial grounds from churchyard plots to Fairview Cemetery. It notes Rev Zenas Adams among first interments, later families like the Adamses, Speights and Grants, and the move to Fairview. It laments neglect and describes efforts led by Nelson Moore to restore the old graveyard with a cairn, new entrance, and renewed reverence.
Canadian wheat exports rose in September with a total of 20,720,316 bushels worth 20,582,268 dollars, up from 17,275,672 bushels and 14,900,003 dollars a year earlier. Shipments to the United Kingdom reached 15,350,796 bushels valued at 16,208,501 dollars, versus 10,121,877 bushels for 8,055,831 dollars last year. Exports to the United States totaled 7,772,824 bushels valued at 1,804,213 dollars, compared with 6,024,854 bushels at 4, not tabulated.
Ariatocrate instructs his valet Thompson to build a sundial and summon him at half past nine, sealing a curio of ritual commands before retiring.
A fragment suggests a conversation about dangerous action and warning words from a father. The text references danger and an attempt to engage in risky activity, with a remark about work not fatally harming anyone and a response from a father figure.
A compact directory page lists physicians surgeons lawyers and solicitors in Acton Ontario with office hours and contact details. Names include Dr J A McNiven Dr E J Nelson Wilbur Strout Harold Nash M A Barrister Kenneth M Langdon and YP O Row with offices in Acton Georgetown and surrounding streets.
Dentist P. W. Pearen D D S L D S advertises hours nine to six daily with evenings by appointment. Gas for extractions provided and Wednesday afternoon closed. Phone numbers 14s and 29 listed.
Francis Nunan offers binding of account books and periodicals of all descriptions. Ruling neatly and promptly done. Located on Wyndham Street in Guelph Ontario.
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