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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1933
Page
8
The notice reports deaths and family announcements including names linked to Dr. Vincent and James Moore, with mentions of the Guelph General Hospital and Nassagaweya residence. Dates cited include October 5 and October 12 1933. Details reference a husband aged about 80 and a separate 76 year old, with mentions of heirs and locations in Ontario.
The issue notes potato harvest under way and first turnips for shipping arriving. It mentions the 1933 Refunding Loan prospectus on Page Three, a rugby schedule, and rains improving plowing. Fire Prevention Week urges furnace cleanup, ads tease Christmas cards, and Miss Ruth Gibson's radio program. It also reports pear bruise causes from alkaline sodium silicate in packing materials per Journal of Agricultural Research.
The text notes lime and carbonate of lime affect soil texture, especially in clays where lime reduces stickiness when wet and makes soil more friable when dry. On light sandy and gravelly soils lime helps cement the soil, exerting a beneficial influence.
Elisha W. Lane of Acton died at home on Agnes Street at age seventy three after long illness. He married Clara Griffin forty seven years ago and leaves one daughter Mrs Obas Allan. Funeral Tuesday in Fairview Cemetery with Latter Day Saints church pallbearers and floral tributes from local and distant supporters.
The Canadian National Parks Service has built over 2000 miles of standard horseback trails across Banff Jasper Waterton Lakes parks. The Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies sponsor annual outings led by competent supervision. The 1933 trip starts at Lake Louise Banff National Park, runs four days from July 28 to August 1, with routes to Mount Assiniboine and Lake Louise area routes including Moraine and Paradise valleys.
A reception honors Mira with 35 to 40 friends, music and games, gifts for the bride and groom, and a supper at seven. Ontario Agriculture hosts four nutrition focused cooking schools in Brampton Milton Grangeville and Newmarket October 19 through 31 with demonstrations, Canadian products, and recipes. The Hydro Electric Power Commission assists with equipment and power, two domestic science graduates lead sessions and answer nutrition and electrical power questions.
A city youth on a country road taunts an older Black worker with a racist joke about being "as black as you are." The exchange leads to a later dinner joke at the boarders' table and ends with the man returning to town.
A brief dialogue exchange centers on a youth complimenting a girl’s teeth as pearl like while she questions the intended meaning and responds with a playful retort. The fragment hints at light social teasing in a domestic or schoolroom setting. The snippet mentions youth and girl and uses quotation marks around spoken lines.
A reflective piece compares self valuation to price tags on goods. It notes a bright high school girl undervalues herself due to dress and status, warning against self depreciation. It argues that undervaluing oneself leads others to misjudge true worth and that people should set accurate personal value.
A reflection on the Oregon Trail migration notes as seventeen perished per mile, praising early pioneers who endured hunger and danger to secure civil and religious liberty. It emphasizes that modern comforts cost blood and sweat, and that readers should value freedoms obtained at great personal cost.
Research at the Dominion Research Institute in Hull Quebec studies a filterable virus in foxes and mink affecting dogs and Arctic sledge dogs. Virus strains from ranches are tested with canine distemper viruses to develop vaccines and serums, using large numbers of dogs foxes ferrets and related animals raised at the institute.
Canada’s main industry is agriculture. It employs 28.7 percent of the gainfully employed population as of the 1931 census and provides raw material for many manufacturers. Its products, in raw or manufactured form, make up a large share of Canadian exports.
Quotations from shippers and wholesale dealers in Toronto outline current prices for poultry and eggs, dressed meats, and grain. Fresh poultry weights and grades are listed alongside beef, veal, hog, lamb, and mutton prices. Grain quotes cover wheat oats barley and straw as traded on the Toronto Board of Trade. Hides skins and wool prices are also provided.
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