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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 17, 1935
Page
4
Numerous Acton people and relatives from Toronto host and visit over the weekend. engagements, anniversaries, and a 1935 wedding date are announced, with a 50th anniversary celebration planned for John Marshall and wife on October 21 1935 at their Campbellville home.
Canadian border ports report a heavy tourist influx for June 1 to July 15 with Windsor Fort Erie and Niagara Falls each handling record car and passenger totals. Windsor saw 41 654 sixty day permits and 46 527 shorter permits. Fort Erie processed 240 308 foreign autos and 1 116 traveler permits. Niagara Falls logged a 15 percent year over year rise with 644 515 automobiles carrying 2 304 888 passengers. Travel volumes underline Canada US border vitality and continued easing of red tape for visitors.
A playful dialogue shows Hubby refusing a dish saying he cannot eat it, while Young Uride offers a remedy with leftovers. Mubby suggests eating it now, prompting a lighthearted family exchange about food and reaction.
In a Manhattan apartment a tense wife awaits a planned encounter as a note exposes her affair with a town youth. A director’s betrayal and a looming meeting at Central Park West heighten the drama as clocks tick toward three and a dangerous revelation nears.
Grand Lodge officers attended the dedication of Walker Lodge in an event marked by friendship and hospitality. Notables from Guelph, Fergus, Kitchener, Stratford and many towns joined the ceremony, with greetings from South Huron and tributes to Masonry and the lodge’s new home.
Canadian bacon and ham exports to Great Britain surged from 5 million pounds in 1939 to 89.4 million in 1934, with seven months of the present year totaling 84.35 million pounds versus 81.50 million last year. Canada climbed from ninth to second in the British bacon trade, holding 11.7 percent share. Quality, grading, and breeding policy by the Canadian Department of Agriculture undergird the gains.
Based on Ontario Agriculture data for 1935 Halton reports 145 in calf club 34 in grain 43 in garden and canning and 31 in clothing. Achievement Days linked to Acton Esquesing and County of Halton Societies with 71 percent completing projects and exhibiting. Notable winners include Velma Murray and Margaret Brown earning Macdonald Institute short courses, and Campbell McKinnon champion of Grain Club.
A quotation from Sir Oliver Lodge urges trust in a rational plan for humanity while contrasting fate with human action. A brief comic exchange follows about teaching a son a foreign language and asks which was the most foreign.
A fragmented bill notes Gregory Theatre offerings with comedy Vacation Day Souvenir No 1 Fox News and The Light Pantastic plus vaudeville acts. It lists stars Jean Muir John Hales and Charles Dutterworth and previews Bengal Lancers and Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
A writer describes a fish swimming up a waterfall as an example of overcoming impossibility. The scene provokes thoughts on perseverance and challenging self limiting beliefs. The prose urges readers to reject defeatist phrases and persist.
Preservation through salt or vinegar forms pickling. The guide outlines three pickle classes, lists equipment like granite utensils, and provides example recipes for sweet fruit pickles, sour pickles, and unripe cucumber pickles. It notes safety and method details from the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.
A fragment describes dissolving alum, cooking cucumbers ten minutes in a quarter of a mixture, heating to boiling, and boiling ten minutes. It lists a vinegar base with one gallon vinegar, four red peppers, two tablespoons allspice, two tablespoons cloves, two sticks cinnamon, and brine poured over peppers stored in a stone jar.
A motto to seek daily business improvement transforms a man into a tireless peak performer. He continually refines his best, leaving no unfinished work behind. Completeness marks every task and detail at his place, as he shuns poor days and bad jobs.
A young man asks the girl if they have met before. She replies that it is likely and that she has been there before, implying prior acquaintance. The exchange hints at shared experience or recognition without revealing specifics.
The riddle explains a dog warmer costs the same in summer and winter, with a coat making winter usage different, while summer uses involve similar pricing and clothing.
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