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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
5
A cheerful ballad praises perseverance and daily labor. It extols a man who works each day, faces luck with a smile, and keeps a positive outlook regardless of adversity. The verse emphasizes sunshine, cheer, and resilience as keys to success.
The article offers vegetable dish ideas using common summer produce. It suggests adding a touch of sugar to enhance flavor beyond salt and pepper. A baked corn and tomatoes recipe combines corn tomatoes salt pepper sugar bread crumbs and butter baked until golden. A carrot and pea dish reheats cooked carrots with peas and a butter flour milk sauce for a hot serving.
A home cookbook fragment shows a vanilla junket recipe with orange sections and whipped cream, plus Bran Raisin Bread with eggs, bran, and molasses. It highlights bran and iron as health aids and promotes Persian Bali as a skin beauty product endorsed by T Munger.
Caleb Peaslee and Lysander Hyne observe a starving horse and a dead hoss swap. Wilder Blake buys Bonsey’s allegedly dead beast back, hides it, and reveals a thriving horse three months later, proving a prank and a clever rescue. The scene unfolds on a rural road near Bangor with local talk of thrift and cunning.
Dominion Experimental Farms announces a non creeping brome grass developed after 12 years of breeding to suit humid eastern climates. Seed production expected in 1935 with 3000 plants grown this year at Central Experimental Farm available for viewing. The bees fed over winter should receive 40 pounds of stores, with options for cellar or pack housing. Dr Thomas Eclectric remedies enjoy nationwide fame. A local tale recounts a horse swap scheme, ending with a successful sale under strict monthly weighing conditions.
A leading modern singer reflects that Circumstances, wiser than his earlier self, redirected his ambition from composing to a brilliant career. He notes that Circumstances are not wise but God is, and advises embracing divine guidance rather than rigid plans.
British researchers report modern leather covers suffer from sulfuric acid in urban air, while older individually dyed bindings resisted. Experiments on royal library volumes from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle show reintroducing certain chemicals after dyeing can restore durability. Faraday Innes and Dr. Jordan Lloyd note benefits extend to leather upholstery and discuss enamelled automotive leather.
The Dionne Quintuplets will have their likenesses printed again after Bee Hive Golden Corn Syrup became their sponsor. St. Lawrence Starch Company confirmed the syrup was used in early feedings and guardians expressed satisfaction, signaling Bee Hive as preferred if corn syrup is needed again.
A wife tells her husband she discharged the maid he engaged this afternoon. She explains she did not want him to get a chance to employ her. The husband expresses disbelief, noting there had been no prior opportunity.
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