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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 13, 1938
Page
5
The article advocates a light early autumn menu suited to September tastes. It suggests a seafood cocktail, orange sponge cake and Orange Spanish Cream, with step by step prep for gelatin milk dessert and a citrusy tea service. It emphasizes fresh vegetables and balanced courses without heavy winter dishes.
Canada reports its reindeer herd has surpassed 4500 animals after an annual round-up on Richards Island. 4181 deer were counted with 1206 fawns, 1938 females, 631 bulls and 1M steers. about 360 escaped the corral.
Central Press outlines winter care for delphiniums and other perennials. Apply drainage mounds with coal ash gravel or sand, mulch after ground freezes, avoid packing mulches, and use broadcast naturalizing. Plant sweet peas seeds now and sow quickly fading annuals like hollyhock and phlox.
A playful exchange recalls a riddle about why the chicken crossed the road. The narrator notes a Sunday car ride and a Monday chicken dinner as clues or memory aids tied to the classic question.
Two blouse and skirt ensembles arrive from Ports showing modern bias toward soft neatness. The pink taffeta model features a high neckline looped ends and self covered buttons with a pushed up leg of mutton sleeve. The golden yellow cravat silk version displays a high yoke knot and matching band at the waist.
A dated column outlines weekly topics for women readers from October 13 to October 19. It tackles workmanship versus storms, postponed improvements, habit formation in giving, trust in the Lord with guidance, choosing good companions, patience with stupidity as grace growth, and treating strangers with kindness. The tone blends moral counsel with practical reflections.
A Fort Erie Times-Review column laments the hidden burden of an eight percent sales tax on goods from toothpaste to printed orders. It argues the tax invisibly hits consumers and manufacturers, urging awareness and potential reform while noting how industry absorbs or passes costs to shoppers.
A brief dialogue captures a tense kitchen scene as a mistress orders eggs to be boiled and a departure set for exactly three minutes. The exchange centers on obedience and timing within a domestic moment.
A reader reviews Ethel Chapman’s With Flame of Freedom noting strong character variety, hopeful youth leadership, and the book’s value for young people groups. The reviewer praises its idealism while acknowledging possible improbabilities and urges continued community progress alongside Thanksgiving reflections.
The lesson explains the third commandment forbidding profane swearing and irreverent use of God's name. It links Jesus’ teaching to Moses’s law, stressing inner righteousness over outward form, and urges a pure heart to keep truth spoken and lived.
A wealthy English traveler staying at a remote hotel notes icicles on a trapper’s moustache and asks which room he slept in. The brief anecdote sketches shared hardship and human kindness on a frigid morning.
A sermon notes that outward rituals cannot produce real reverence and that true change comes from surrender to Christ. It argues that many prefer ritual performance but avoid disturbing their sinful natures, while heartfelt devotion arises from genuine repentance and seeking the Lord in sincerity and truth.
Two dramatic images depict Chinese soldiers surrendering near Lushan to a Japanese trooper. The top photo shows the bayonet ready as deserters emerge with hands raised. the lower image shows a white flag made from a towel on a stick. The surrender occurred after leaflets offering pay and food were dropped behind Chinese lines.
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