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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1935
Page
6
A folk style verse encourages persistent effort and resilience. It advises that doing one’s best brings rewards while pessimism wastes time. The speaker urges brushing aside fretfulness and grit your teeth and keep on keeping on despite gloom or doubt.
October observances recall Christopher Columbus and the New World corn gift. The piece highlights Native American cooking methods, especially Indian women’s roles, with recipes like corn pone and Piki bread, plus a peach crisp pudding and sweet potato marshmallow balls as modern adaptations.
A reader shares old documents from Acton's past, including School Section No. 12 minutes from 1860 and a 1849 Province grant letter. The notes mention trustees, school fees, governance, and contributors, with references to Esquesing and Hamilton merchants. The piece highlights how such records illuminate community growth and memory.
An amateur aviator laments engine trouble and landing sites while a man asks for aid on musculoskeletal pain. The piece then adverts Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a remedy for internal and external ailments including sore throat chest pain and cough. A bottle costs one dollar.
The provided text is a fragmented, humorous, or nonsensical mix with no coherent news event, names, places, or organizations to summarize into a proper card. It reads as a string of jokes and garbled phrases rather than a report.
The article describes horse hair as valuable alive or dead used in food leather glue and tail strings for musical instruments. It notes Belgium recognizes three hair qualities black hairs preferred for upholstery and mattresses while Argentina leads supply with the US Britain Germany and Canada also contributing. Canada is valued for high quality hair by a dolphin manufacturer and cost limits its market share.
A passenger reports discovering one black and one brown shoe under his berth on the International Limited. The porter quips that this is the second such incident this morning, as noted in the Canadian National Railways Magazine.
An advertisement extols Kellogg Att Bran as a bulk laxative aiding regularity and constipation relief. It highlights its vitamin B content and enduring “bulk” through digestion, claiming two tablespoons daily improves digestion and overall health.
A playful exchange contrasts goods with gunpowder. The visitor boasts of gunpowder as superior, prompting the proud manager to demand better. A quip notes shoemakers work all night because it is never too late to mend.
Ford 1936 V8 line features a complete exterior refresh with new hood fenders grille headlamps wheels and detailed refinements. Interiors gain harmonized instrument panel and trim. Quiet helical gears reduce forward and reverse steering effort by over 25 percent. Tudor sedan highlights include larger trunk and new wheel design with 42 inch hub caps.
Local Acton directory lists physicians and surgeons J A McNiven and E J Nelson, barristers M A Nash and K M Langdon, dentists P W Pearen and JC Buchanan, veterinary E N Harrop, a bookbinder in Guelph, and a land surveyor in Orangeville. Includes office hours and contact details for several practices and services.
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