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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1930
Page
13
The text paints autumn as a time of faded roses and ripe harvest. Fields, orchards, and meadows glow with maturity while wildlife and plants mark the season. The earth yields abundantly before a resting triumph at summer’s end, credited to GL. M, Thornton.
A trio of kitchen ideas includes Tropical Salad with melon balls and citrus, a cabbage apple spinach lettuce mix with spinach and onion dressing, and a frozen junket dessert with cherries pineapple and marshmallows. Each recipe specifies ingredients, quantities, and serving styles for six.
A Civil War era recollection notes a colored body-servant praising Lee to a Confederate officer’s wife. He extols Lee as the greatest man, while another observer counters that newspapers show Lee retreating from Maryland, sparking a heated exchange about the war’s progress.
An essay by Lewis Worthington Smith on rugged trails and daring journeys contrasts with a circus parade in Acton. The narrator notes the crowd, delays, daylight saving confusion, and the orderly procession of elephants, horses, and performers, praising disciplined parade conduct.
A reader laments careless street habits in Acton and praises civic pride. He notes damage from large vehicles at corners, praises courteous greetings from youth, and urges wrappers be picked up near the Soldiers Monument. He calls for tidy streets and respectful salutations to elders.
Delicately fragrant preparation claimed to cool and caress the skin reducing roughness from weather. Advertised as a velvet smooth lotion that softens and whitens hands, with dainty women as its target audience.
A fragmentary dialogue discusses difficult letter h riddles and the origin of cockney speech. A passage explains historical terms such as hobo tramp and migrant worker, contrasting meanings and cautioning precision in language.
The Dominion Agriculture reports rising demand for sugar beet seed in the western cane areas with about 40 000 pounds needed to grow green magnaré. White clover is preferred by beet growers to control yellowing issues, and current markets lack sugar beet seed sales though imports from Germany affect local prices.
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