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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1930
Page
4
Poem expressing thanks for harvest abundance and resilient home in adversity. The speaker honors farmers, workers, and faith, noting communal sustenance, warmth, and hope that sustains a household through hardship and onto a new year.
Betty Bartlay presents two walnut based dishes plus a coffee dessert idea. Walnut Meat Substitute blends rice bread and walnuts into sausages with bacon garnish. Walnut and Salmon Salad combines salmon, walnuts, cabbage, and dressing on lettuce leaves. Includes a Coffee Fruit Cake and Mocha Fudge recipe with detailed steps and odd typos. Also mentions crackers, bread fare and a dubious Egyptian liniment note.
A letter reviews Tev W. D. McIntosh's book One Hundred Years in the Zorra Church, noting pioneers and fifty three ministers from Embro United Church lineage. It recites union history, prominent ministers, and the 100 year celebration with a new pipe organ.
Fragmented diary style notes recount daily events and musings with odd spellings and garbled names. The speaker describes social interactions, church attendance, a teacher or preacher, a flirtation, and a curious digression on a fishin trip, ending with a garbled advertisement-like line about an oil-based remedy.
A fragmented OCR snippet shows dialogue about a fast train and wetling out to Kea. The garbled text includes a conductor reply and questions about whether a train is thin or not. Names, places, and clear actions are unreadable, leaving only partial phrases and speculative meaning.
A dubious ad touts Moonen Emerald Oil as a powerful remedy that supposedly clears eczema and skin lesions in seven days. It claims rapid healing of boils and open ulcers, promising a money back guarantee and asserting non prescription status.
A claim describes using a device called Mother Gravest Worn textorminator to drive out parasites from children. The text emphasizes strengthening children by combating parasitic infections with this method.
A fragment discusses Y Ding and a husband named Millar about Woaing Powders, urging testimonials from mothers to prove its virtue. It claims the powders act swiftly and thoroughly, with noticeable improvement after the first dose for children.
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