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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
12
Immaura Paxss notes many guests from Milton Toronto Burlington Grand Valley and Oakville among Fair Day attendees. Several families including Clarke Oates Kennedy and Johnston visited here with relatives from Ridgeway and Toronto. Local reports mention improvements in Mrs Patterson and a long-distance traveler Stewart Lowrie returning from Tokyo after six years abroad.
Local fair showcases a wide array of vegetables and fruits with prizes awarded for heaviest turnips and best boxed fruits. Exhibits list includes potatoes carrots cabbage onions apples grapes pears and flowers with top honors to F R Fendley R H Hunter and G Nighbor among many others.
A Halton County elector letter argues high tariffs hurt farmers by halving imports and exports under Bennett's policy. It asserts farm prices fell, unemployment rose, and farmer prosperity remained elusive while Bennett boasted of fulfilled promises. The piece criticizes trade restrictions and questions overall Canadian prosperity.
A discussion from the Canadian Department of Agriculture Egg and Poultry Review reports a shipment of Canadian breeding stock to France. Franciy comments praise the stock’s appearance while noting hawk and magpie predation as the main losses.
Dear Pace Paris outlines an International Printers gathering, praise for a clean paper, and a Clock Tower column following weekly impressions. It highlights frost damaged plum export shifts to England, Duchess of Richmond cargo, Cunard trips, and vast foodstock loading for the voyage to Montreal.
The Ontario Temperance Federation issued a leaflet reprinting most of the Atlante Monthly article Alcohol and Motors by Curtis Dji Inga of the National Safety Council. It cites experimental data on alcohol effects for motorists and urges highway departments to include the leaflet with Moense plates in 1936. August 20, 1935.
Ads Alberta Sprowl and William J. Finlay wed at Knox Church Manse with Rev. H. L. Bennie officiating. The bride wore pale blue crepe with matching accessories. A wedding supper followed at the bride's home and the couple planned a Toronto visit before residing with the bride’s parents.
A musician notes Bennie learns the harp and must be mapped like a march route. The speaker jokes Bennie may follow in footsteps but warns he must march about eight miles whenever the parade starts.
A fragment describes the Paladolphines worms surfacing at dawn in South Pacific islands and their use in distant cuisines. It cites European diners savoring raw forms, and mentions egg aging choices in top restaurants with 50 year stored varieties.
A driver on O Connell Street in Dublin passed a traffic constable on the wrong side. The officer recalled him and warned to go round him in future whether he is there or not. The motorist apologized for not noticing the officer.
On Monday September 23 a wedding night comedy plays with stars Gary Cooper and Anne Sten in the feature The Wedding Night. The program includes Aniversary Troubles chapter 10 from The Law of the Wild and One More Chance, plus a rugby sports segment.
A UK group of educationists led by the Overseas Education League travels across Canada to celebrate its 26th anniversary. The tour includes Quebec, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, and Halifax aboard the Empress of Australia, with Canadian hosts and British educators exchanging hospitality during the visit.
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