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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 29, 1931
Page
12
Visitors from Toronto Guelph Hackney London and Detroit visit Acton and area as Barbara Brooks recounts weekly gatherings. A college life food critique follows detailing dorm meals and longing for home cooking, plus two honey bran cookies recipe and a honey date snack recipe with steps and yields.
In Mu ton, Thomas Norton of Glen Williams was found guilty of breaking and entering the warehouse of Joseph Beaumont on September 28 and given a suspended sentence with a warning. His brother Jack Morton was sentenced to one month for the same offense.
A Mackay era piece notes that some people overwork smiles and see cheer as proof of superiority, urging a quick conquest of difficulties. It also reports the Lealle Leatle wedding in Georgetown where Mrs Morton Veale’s daughter Maury Robona Lealle wed George Percival Lealle with Rev Evan MacDonald officiating and a reception at the home of the groom’s relatives.
Nearly half a million dollars worth of fur from the sub Arctic region around Vandy was sent to London via the Hudson Bay Railway. The seventy five bales include white fox and beaver skins from a vast, treeless Arctic coast, signaling a northern Manitoba revival after a lengthy downturn.
The public shows interest in the new honey grades effective this year. Grading follows Canadian classification by color into White Gold Amber and Dark and further by quality for Panoy School or Manufacturers use.
A distressed wife laments a ruined cake on the porch as a man offers to replace their dog. The dialogue suggests a small domestic dispute and a humorously simplistic rescue plan amid rough speech. The piece reads like a fragment of a larger colloquial scene from a bygone era.
A diary found with the body of a young woman buried on a beach contrasts worldly thrills with the enduring joys of health and spiritual renewal. The piece argues genuine thrills come from vitality, work, restraint, prayer, and service, not fleeting sensations or vice.
Farmers consider adding a small flock to boost income and provide meat, while sheep act as weed avengers. At the Windermere Experimental Station the Hampshire breed shows strong growth with October breeding, about five months to lambing, and 170 to 175 percent average increase. Ewes crossbred with grade ewes show high potential, promoting land enrichment and diversified farm outputs.
The Federal Experimental Station at Summerland reports progress in candying apricots peaches and pears for home and commercial use. The process relies on a straightforward maturation routine enabling winter canning with candying carried out later, attracting both a firm considering production and small operators already selling hundreds of pounds.
Weary Wille offers four dollars for a neatly mended overcoat in a pawnshop. Janno and Tanme value the garment at two to four dollars, with Wille insisting the coat is only worth ten cents more and finally paying four dollars to settle the deal.
A quirky local tale unfolds in a small town where the constable doubles as a veterinary surgeon. A late night phone rung with a caller asking for the husband, the vet, or the chief of police, as burglars threaten a new bulldog unable to close its mouth.
Toronto quotations show wholesale ranges for dairy products poultry eggs and related goods to shippers and retailers. Prices cover butter creamery eggs poultry meats vegetables hides wool and grain with figures by item and class across wholesale markets.
A fragmented humor piece shows a newlywed and spouse reacting to a mishap in a domestic setting. The dialogue hints at a mistaken remedy and quick improvisation with a casual, quirky tone. The exchange underscores marital banter amid a minor kitchen incident.
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