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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 16, 1937
Page
6
Fragmentary notes tell of a tense scene on a city street with references to a band, a battalion, and a sense of ongoing conflict. Incomplete phrases hint at memory, fatigue, and a long road ahead beyond a single annual event.
Twenty years ago, a rubber motor tire factory began operation in Oakville. News items include Pettit resigning from the Ontario Agriculture College to start a Georgetown business. W. Howard earning prizes at fairs. St Albans Harvest Festival with a new organ. a bold robbery in Toronto. George W. Covack serving in France. civic reception for Pte W F Fricker. a Dredge Crawshaw wedding in Esquencing. and the death of Christopher Trotter in Gloversville aged 80.
County by county the Stallion Enrolment Board has set inspection routes for stallions in three provincial districts. Owners must contact their Agricultural Representative for times and locations. inspections are free for those inspected now, but a $10 fee applies for later special inspections.
Transfer marks can be removed before full embroidery is completed by rubbing with cotton wool dampened with methylated spirit in warm water. Linen mats edged with lace or crochet require careful ironing. Pin wet mats in the correct shape on the ironing sheet with pins close together where lace joins linen, then iron with the mat kept taut until lace is dry. Embroidered organic mats described.
The writer celebrates a working radio while reminiscing on broadcasts from Mr Nowe and Colonel Drew and noting how figures can be argued to suit speakers. They recount a police radio discovery, praise for a candidate meeting, and worry over infantile paralysis and school closings as the district faces public health and safety concerns.
The article explains Moses final appeals in Deuteronomy urging obedience to Jehovah as the basis for Israel’s future blessing in the land. It contrasts Canaan’s rainfall dependent fertility with Egypt’s Nile floods, stressing divine control of natural wealth and the need to love and serve God faithfully.
A guide describes canning lamb for picnics with parboiling and jar packing, plus a hot serving salad. It includes steps for sterilizing jars, cooking times, and a mayo-like dressing for a cabbage onion tart apple salad. A humorous Army joke closes the piece.
A fragmentary quote cites a Chinaman saying the lighthouse is good for the flag while noting a confusing insistence on a name. The lines suggest a linguistic dispute or coded remark about branding and identity.
A reader advertisement extols Kellogg's ALI Bran for six years of constipation relief. The claim notes two tablespoons daily or three times daily in severe cases, with benefits cited as gentler than pills and drugs and vitamin B content claimed to tone intestines and aid digestion.
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