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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1933
Page
14
R. Wox was chosen chair man of the Milton School Board at a re organization meeting. A farm plowing match at James McPherson’s nearby Rockwood was reported with good attendance and crowd.
The narrator reflects on Handel as a shrewd composer and opera director, then shifts to nature observations. He recounts a sick coyote revived by sunlit grass as a medicine, a grouse with a broken wing washing its wound, and a bird using pine pitch to deter pests, noting keen animal problem solving.
The bulletin notes loss of soil fertility from nitrogen leaching in light sandy soils. It links organic matter with nitrogen, warns summer fallow reduces organic matter, and stresses continuous cropping without returning fertility harms productivity. It also highlights manure returns when properly preserved in dairying and stock farming.
AATK president, a two billion dollar company, entered Harvard after finishing high school at seventeen and graduating at nineteen with honors. The piece argues that hard work and consistent study habits from youth predict later success, despite claims that high achievers fade after graduation.
After a return from a short trip Thompson hears his wife describe reforms she made. She claims she opened a locked cupboard with a hairpin and fixed an oven hinge herself. She also notes a portrait and a boy’s nail biting cured with simple tools.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co of Canada reports improved reserves for depreciation cash position and working capital in the past nine months. President C H Carlisle notes sales volume in the Canadian timber industry down 6.6 percent from last year while Goodyear shows a slight decline of about one percent. An audited statement of yearly operations will be presented after the next quarter. He urges shareholders to buy Goodyear products and promote sales.
A reflective meditation on nature’s sufficiency and mystery. The author urges occasional retreat to quiet places—woods, streams, hills—to glimpse life’s changing needs, noting how the world’s vastness invites lifelong study and humbles even seasoned minds.
A health instruction advises growing deafness or head noises may improve by mixing Parmint double strength with hot water and sugar, then taking a tablespoon four times daily. The remedy claims quick relief, easing breathing and mucus drainage.
Acton and District Legion announces a Poppy and Remembrance Day fundraiser led by President J M McDonald and Secretary F J Wright. Community members urged to donate in support of veterans and remembrance services.
A historical fragment lists wholesale quotes for butter creamery, eggs, and poultry. It includes rate ranges for churning cream, country shipments, and various weights of broilers, fowl, and white ducklings, with grade adjustments and per pound differentials.
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