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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
10
The local road through Acton and district has seen trimming around the Second Line bridge abutments and shrubbery along the Dublin swamp. Improvements extend from Speyside to Milton including removed dangerous curves and widened sections. Further work to the north end is expected.
The article notes the start of the term on Tuesday and urges students to focus on education now, arguing the curriculum, though improvable, provides solid opportunity. It stresses that diligent study yields future advantages and that changes should not distract from current work.
A prior push for small allowances to municipal officers including Reeve Councillors and Public Utilities Commissioners faced mixed results in Acton. After several years supporters still question whether the plan is fully justified, noting uneven application across boards and lingering cost concerns.
The piece weighs the shift to lower interest rates, noting how pensioners and bondholders may welcome reduced costs while workers face higher relative tax burdens as wages fall. It argues outcomes depend on which class holds the majority.
The Financial Post report on J. S. McLean of Canada Packers says Canadian hog producers lost 12 million dollars last year because hog quality kept bacon exports from Britain. He notes only 10 percent of 6 million hogs slaughtered are exported as bacon and ham.
Newspaper men from across the Dominion gathered for a Directors luncheon on Press Day at the Canadian National Exhibition. Ottawa correspondent Mr. McCormack of the New York Times spoke while Sir Ian Eraser praised the blind exhibit from St Dunstan’s.
The piece notes rising attendance at the Canadian National Exhibition despite uncertain weather. It criticizes enforcement under the new liquor law and calls for stricter action rather than warnings. It mentions the Jackson family selling New Market Era to Andrew Olding Hebb, a former Toronto journalist and Dalhousie graduate, joining the weekly paper’s ranks.
A Sunday school lesson on Hezekiah guiding Judah back to worship at the temple. The study highlights the Passover as central to salvation, the need to seek counsel, and the call to surrender to the Lord, with emphasis on God's mercy for those who repent.
A Salada Tea instruction promotes tea as a world favorite and social drink. It lists steps: use fine quality tea, fresh water, and an earthenware pot, scald it, add a level teaspoon per cup plus one for the pot, pour fresh boiling water, steep five minutes, stir before serving, yielding fragrant, delicious tea.
Ad copy excerpt features humorous exchanges about poverty and a joke line about a wolf at the door, followed by an herbal worm powder claim promising extermination and healing. It includes dated quotes from public figures and a line about psychology shaping the brain.
A reflective note urges readers to examine contrite spirit and obedience to God in Jerusalem and beyond, asking if communities today heed the divine voice and witnesses.
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