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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 15, 1932
Page
7
Simple home canning hints with grape jelly and spiced grape jelly recipes. Includes juice preparation from grapes, sugar and pectin method, paraffin sealing, yields about 11 small jars, plus a pumpkin dessert with junket and a seafood mold idea with gelatin and dressing.
A nostalgic piece recalls a mother's kitchen porch as the heart of family life with shelling peas, warm summer shade, and evening stars. It notes a planned community cemetery cleanup, reflects on aging memories, and briefly quotes a historic market report from January 14, 1808.
The Brantford market lists oats barley potatoes butter eggs ducks chickens turkeys geese and pork with varied prices. A partial Dominion House election list includes Kingston Hamilton Toronto and other ridings with Liberal and Conservative names. The piece notes advertising irregularities and reflects on past Fall Fairs and Acton Fair anticipation.
A historical note claims Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy provides prompt relief and protects against future attacks. The text touts systematic inhalation of the remedy’s smoke or fumes as preventing re attacks and potentially causing permanent improvement for sufferers.
A public diary recalls a week of quirky local events and rumors. Alberta wedding bets spark talk of a witch for a payoff while a city night out is planned. School resumes and arithmetic lessons resume as curfew and social tensions surface. A county race draws dog anecdotes and Irish references amid relationship jokes.
1933 prize list notes an off service fee with 1st $5.00 2nd $3.00 3rd $2.00 for a 120 Best Spring Colt sired by Brilliant by William Brennan to be deducted. 17 Best Pair of Fine Woolled Ewe Lambs exhibited by a youth under 14 by Fred Smith Rockwood. 20 pounds of honey to Edwards Bakery value 2 00. 32 Best Barrel Spy Apples sample shown donor to receive October by Kenney Brog COS.
Goodyear marks its 200 millionth tire with a 9 30 AM ceremony as thirteen blows Morse code for 200000000 from factories in Toronto Bowmanville St Hyacinthe and Akron Ohio. Canada has produced 17 million Goodyear tires since entering the market twenty years ago.
Text appears as garbled OCR with phrases about tasting something, a basket of ants, and a cautious Scot. No clear event, person, place, or organization is identifiable from the fragment.
A Dominion experiment from Ottawa reports eight years of field husbandry tests showing the biggest crop of mingels when thinned to nine inches apart. It also notes that spacing methods yield uneven results in munhy sine vyots and are hard to harvest.
The notice lists hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m with evening appointments available. It states gas extractions services and mentions closure all day on Wednesday and provides phone number 148 for contact.
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