Twenty Years Ago From The Free Press November 21 1918
A poultryman sells eggs at one dollar per dozen. Miss Pearl Baker resigns from Acton High School. Snow shovels appear for the season. Aero Club letters cite a municipal aerodrome. Trafalgar Clerk Charles Hall dies at council meeting after 25 years service. Lindsay Brown wedding at Norval Manse with Gertrude May Brown joining David H Lindsay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Miss Pearl
Acton
Aero Club of Canada
Actén
Charles Hall
Trafalgar
Lindsay-Brown
Norval
J. A. Ferguson
Gertrude May
James Brown
David H. Lindsay
Many Uses for Honey in Home Cooking
Honey supplies energy quickly due to invert sugars and is rich in minerals. It can replace sugar in breads cakes cookies and pies keeps baked goods moist longer and adds flavor to fruits beverages and creams. The Dominion Department of Agriculture notes canning and preservation uses and suggests requesting publications from Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Cooderham
Dominion Apiarist
Central Experimental Farm
Dominion Department‘of Agriculture
Dominion “Department ‘of Agireculture
Ottawa
Sure Enough Mother and Child Talk on Bread Economics
A humorous exchange features a mother noting high food prices and a child replying the bread can serve both butter and jelly. The child quips that the shared bread is economical, illustrating a light domestic joke about frugality and meal choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Mother
Loth
Work of the Years Mrs Brown How children's tastes change
Mrs Brown notes changes in children tastes over time. She recalls Johnny loving soldiers and Mary preferring painted dolls in childhood, but Mary now favors sokvers and John chases after every painted doll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. White
Johnny
Mary
Sokvers
John
Starette Stumble Reveals Change From Girl to Woman
A playful dialogue shows four year old Lillian questioning her mother about becoming a girl and then a woman. The mother explains the transformation from child to adult, referencing the Stettle girl in a humorous exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian
Mamma
Giil
Stettle
Actons Family Album Faces of Those Familiar Here
A retrospective gallery recalls familiar local faces from past years in Acton. The display highlights community members who shaped years of town life, with old photographs and captions reflecting remembered events and connections.
Back in the Days Before the O B A A Baseball Club
A nostalgic note recalls early Acton baseball clubs before the O B A A. The pictured group includes Dave Kenney Bill Worden Jack Agnew Bob Lawson Tom Kenney Will Storey Andrew Mallatt Charles Matthews and Wes Mallatt. A reader named three of them. two more familiar faces are shown in the accompanying photo. Next week the paper promises more identifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.B.A.A
Acton
Dave Kenney
Bill Worden
Jack Agnew
Bob Lawson
Tom Kenney
Government laboratories aid mining industry in Panama investigations
Ore dressing and metallurgical labs in Ottawa report seventy-five major metallurgical investigations in six months ending June 1938. Forty address ore treatments, nine microscopic studies, and twenty-five metallurgical problems. Gold ore treatment dominates, with 8,721 chemical and assay determinations and 361 polished sections examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
Paying Indian Treaty Money Distributed Across Regions
The Indian Affairs Branch explains annual Treaty Annuities totaling about 250000 dollars for Ontario plains and Northwest Indians. Payments run April through August via Indian Agents or RCMP, with travel by boat or seaplanes in remote areas. Health care, vaccinations, and a feast with dancing conclude the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Affairs
Department of Mines and Resources
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
Northwest Territories
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Five Candles versus Cakes Birthday Exchange
A mother offers her five year old daughter Bobbie a cake with five candles. Bobbie prefers five separate cakes and only one candle, highlighting a playful disagreement over birthday treats.
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Bobbie
Mamma
Aberdontan Charged With Drunk and Disorderly Disturbance
A Scottish bailie questioned An' Aberdontan after a drunken disorderly arrest. He blamed bad company and claimed receiving whiskey as a gift, saying he met two teetotalers. The exchange underscores the case’s comic tone.
The Sunday School Lesson On The Works Of The Messiah
A spring and summer lesson from Capernaum and the Sea of Galilee outlines Jesus healing the sick and demon possessed, and teaching discipleship. It notes Jesus's willingness to serve, the crowd’s priorities, and the storm on the Sea of Galilee as a display of divine authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew
Capernaum
Sea
Mark
Peter
Jesus
Caternaum
Christ
Sea of Galilee
Dend
Eskimos Grow Reindeer Herd Under Native Management
Canada's Eskimos are expanding a native managed reindeer herd in the Anderson River area after December transfers. The herd has grown to about 1,200 head with roughly 350 new fawns and rests under Eskimo herders in supervision of the chief government herder. The program aims to provide a staple food and clothing source and shows promising progress as natives shift from hunting to herding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
Anderson River
Eashols
Goversmanlalades
Salon
Home Town Stuff and the Weekly Newspaper Advantage
The piece praises weekly newspapers as first in reader interest and sales influence in Canada’s 69 percent of the market. It argues weekly papers reach 2.8 million readers in smaller communities and offer a home town focus that builds lasting product use through friendly local ads and editorial coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Royal Canadian Navy on CBC Air December Broadcast
CBC National Network will air The Royal Canadian Navy on Friday December 1 from 960 to 1000 p.m. EST. The hour long special, produced with Royal Canadian Navy officials, showcases wartime duties of the RCN with patrol destroyers depth charges and anti aircraft guns on deck. Photographs courtesy Southam Press.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporations
National Network
Canada
Royal Canadian Navy
CBC
Salors
Sallora
Southam Press
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the Free Press of
Isaac M. Moyer
Frederick Rotert
Funk
John Funk
Toronto
Poser
Sfores
Appetite O.K
God
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
C. V. Charters
Brampton
Muggs and
Skeeter
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