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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 24, 1932
Page
6
The piece depicts a cheerful sprite with a velvet crown moving merrily through woods and town. The verse celebrates its fearless, carefree song as it swoops and circles, bringing joy with a bright, repeating tune credited to Jemima Remington.
The first real taste of winter arrived with a Sunday snowstorm that blanketed the area. Local events include the Women's Institute meeting with talks on hot suppers and Christmas candies, and St Albans bazaar in Town Hall touted as the church’s most successful in forty years. Messrs James Ass, W Stalker, and J Arthurs returned with fine deer from Mus. Lawrence Williams returned from North West trip via Hartney and Regina. Acton Knox Church saw the twenty eighth annual meeting of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society with over ninety delegates attending from outside Acton.
An advertisement extols Persian Balm as a true elixir of youth that refreshes and rejuvenates the complexion. It promotes a soft, white skin tone, fragrant formulas, and soothing care for dry or irritated skin, targeting discerning women.
Canada’s fur sector shows 6524 farms in 1930 up from prior year while land and building investments total 5,583,346, about 5,000 less than last year. Fur-bearing animals are valued at 16,197,747, down 5,000,000 from the previous year. Growth continues with support from the Dominion Department of Agriculture’s research and experimental work.
At the 12th Imperial Fruit Show in Bingley Hall Birmingham five first prizes for apples went to James Lowe of Oyama British Columbia for McIntosh Jonathan Delicious New Town Pippin and another variety. Nova Secoda Brewers E W Duncanson Gasper eau won Cox's Orange Pippin. E W Birden Wolfville won King's. E W Eaton Granville Centre won Golden Russet. British Columbia led in honey prizes with one first six seconds and four thirds. Canada remains a major apple producer with 3 157 000 barrels produced this year and many exports to the British Isles and beyond.
A Sunday school lesson outlines Jesus calling Simon Peter and Andrew to be fishers of men and highlights forsaking all to follow. It covers Saul’s Damascus road conversion, humility and immediate preaching after being filled with the Holy Spirit, with emphasis on obedience and witness.
The Red Cross Outpost Hospitals across Ontario risk closing without more financial aid. One nurse at a time delivers vital care in remote communities, where 122,145 days of hospital care have been provided since 1922. In recent months the need has grown, with 29,172 days in 1991 and 16,685 days in the past six months. A nurse describes demanding calls through bush paths to reach patients, deliver care, and secure life-saving procedures when doctors are unavailable. The appeal urges readers to support Ontario Red Cross to keep these remote posts open.
Proposals in Western Canada aim to build a plant for crude vegetable oils and sacks oil from soya beans peanuts and copra with daily operations planned within months. Canada’s soap and edible oil sectors use about four million dollars annually and eastern Canada may see a soya bean milling venture. Initial imports from northern Manchuria precede possible home crops if soil tests prove promising.
A comic exchange presents a city map caption where a character asks the age of a cow and learns from horn length that she is two years old. The other character admits missing the obvious clue and jokes about his own foolishness.
Western Canada markets report rapid McIntosh Red apple sales with over 365 600 boxes shipped domestically and for export this season. The crop has already reached buyers across the country and international markets.
Eastbound service runs daily except Sunday with Chicago filer stopping at 9 40 pm and 9 48 pm for Pi town and times listed 10 00 am 2 28 pm 6 12 pm 8 00 pm. Westbound schedule shown daily except Sunday with departures around 7 40 pm and other daily except Sunday times.
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