Milton School Board elects new chair at reorganization
R. Wox chosen Chair man of the Milton School Board at a re organization meeting. Eramosa Township sale draws brisk bidding and ready market for a large list of articles. A range of local events and notices extends from harvest fairs to Halloween plans with community concerns and a note on a car accident between Guelph and Acton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.wox
Milton
Fred Peltzer
Eramosa Township
R. J. Kerr
Manures and fertilisers and soil fertility causes
The bulletin from the Jamaica Departments of Agriculture discusses soil fertility loss due to leaching of plant food, especially nitrogen. It notes tight sandy soils lose nitrogen more, relates organic matter to nitrogen levels, warns summer fallowing reduces organic matter, and stresses returning fertility via well preserved manure when crops are fed on the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Handel’s Shift From Opera To Oratorio
The piece notes Handel after his fiftieth year shaped his career toward commercial success and public favor. It argues wealth followed his shift away from opera directing in London and toward creating oratorios, where only one or two arias may survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handel
London
Honor Students Prove Early Achievement Sustains Success
AAT and Telegraph president who entered Harvard at sixteen and led the world’s largest firm by forty shows early success stems from hard work and steady habits. The piece argues that diligent students often grow into successful adults, despite myths about precocity. It also includes a brief patent medicine endorsement for Cress Corn Salve by A. T. Brown and E. J. Hassard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufe
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
High Aschidol
Harvard
Hairpin fixes and household repairs headline
After a brief trip Thompson returns to hear family news about reforms. His wife boasts of opening a locked cupboard with a hairpin and fixing an oven door on one hinge herself. She also recalls making a hairpin hook and curing Willie’s nail biting with a hairbrush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Willie
Goodyear Earnings Show Dividend Strength Despite Canada Market Dip
Mr. C. H. Carlisle reports in a shareholder letter that Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of CanadaLimited expanded plant depreciation reserves, cash position, and working capital in the nine months of the current fiscal year. Sales in the Canadian timber industry slipped about 6.6 percent versus the prior year, while Goodyear itself declined slightly over one percent. An audited year end statement will be presented after the next quarter. Carlisle urges shareholders to buy Goodyear products and aid their sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C._H. Carlisle
Gdoodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited
Carlisle
Goodyear
Nature as a lifelong study in a tranquil landscape
The author reflects that nature offers endless riddles and lessons. He urges retreat to quiet woods and hills to solve life’s hunger for change, noting how even old men marvel at nature’s vast treasure. He suggests being grateful guests of the Mother who built this house of nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawk
Eagle
J. Halliwell Sutcliffe
Remedy for Catarrhal Deafness Head Noise
If you are growing hard of hearing or have roaring noises in the ears, go to a druggist for Parmint double strength. Mix one ounce with a pint of hot water and a little sugar, take one tablespoon four times daily. It is said to relieve distressing noises and open nasal passages.
Acton and District Legion Poppy Fund Drive
Acton and District Legion launches its Poppy and Remembrance Day appeal with J M McDonald as president and F J Wright as secretary seeking local support and donations for veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton and District Legion
Poppy and Remembrance Day Fund
B. Bayliss
F. Roney
T. Robson
W. Nisbet
J.M. McDonald
F. J. Wright
Quotations for Retail Butter Creamery and Poultry Prices
A fragment lists trade quotations for creamery butter and farm poultry, with various grades and weights. It shows price ranges for cartons, eggs, broilers, fowl, and ducks, including differences for color and grade, and notes adjustments per pound.
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Bell
Nelson Township
Walt W. Belt
Evergreen Cemetery
Saocainsei
Por
Alfred
Bilis Amile
Grother
James McPherson
Rockwood
Mittons
Lakeside
Eld
W. D. Talbot
Robert Connor
Brampton
Hallowe’en
Acton Business Men’s Association
Pare Press
Nelson
Guelph
Retail Merchants’ Association
Robert Wallace
Acton
J. P. Scarrow
Bower Avenue
Norman Scarrow
A. T. Brown
E. J. Hassard
Ken Hutchinson and His Orchestra
Bank of Montreal
Toronto
Cramery
Hetail
Isvedinde
Sencen
Toronto Board of Trade
If Bay
Manitoba
Ontario
Oata
New Ontario
New Brunswick
Brockers
Feedere
F. O. B. Trucks
Bobby Jones
Patterson’s
Patterson’s Meatshop
Orrie Lamb
Woodhall & Musselle
Arctic
Woolcot
Velvet Girls
Grocery Department
Crisco
Tiger
Alymer
Tin
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