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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
13
The readable fragments describe a career change or reassessment involving an individual or group referred to as Aie Sr. The item hints at a professional transition, with limited concrete details or dates due to the damaged text.
A reflective verse by EL Elser argues faith is active effort, moral courage, and service despite conditions. It contrasts prayer, waiting, and hatred with a bold enterprise to act for good. The piece emphasizes steadfastness and practical faith.
Two recipes for quick flavorful dishes using pantry staples and a few flowers’ ends. Roast Boston with beans and hash then finish with a hot sauce. bananas baked in a currant glaze and a fried banana fritter option with orange juice.
Canada’s domestic exports rose slightly in July to 56.33 million while domestic exports fell to 29.04 million. Exports to the United States climbed to 21.13 million. Agricultural implements surged to 2.54 million, aluminum fell, and certain foods and goods declined. Fiscal year totals show a 3 percent gain from 205.65 million to 320.78 million. An advertisement touts Miller's Worm Powders for children.
List of prize winners at the Limehouse Rural School Fair held September 11 1935 at Limehouse. Entries include Oats Banner Barley Corn potatoes apples pumpkins and numerous flower and craft categories with multiple winners such as Isabel Burkholder Edna Pryer Victor Starret and Dorothy VanFleet across classes and events. A closing note mentions a worm exterminator product credited with saving children.
In South Africa natives and Indians prefer tall cans over fat tins for canned salmon. They associate tall cans with higher quantity and prestige brands like chum or pink. Cape Town favors Canadian salmon while Durban trades mainly in Japanese pack. demand grows for one pound tins in other ports with large native populations.
In a shop an elderly man confronts an odd instrument and asks its function. The optician explains it is an ophthalmometer. The man mutters that this is exactly what he feared, then leaves the store with lingering curiosity.
Canadian apple shipments to Britain rose from 69 000 tons in 1927 to 124 000 tons in 1934 and total exports reached 33 countries. Canada’s apples, mainly from Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia and other regions, show improved production in 1935 with an estimated 4 073 926 barrels versus 3 891 000 in 1934 and 5 473 233 in 1933.
An Yishman and a Scots guest enter nationality notes in a register. The clerk points out an omission and the Irish entrant writes Irish, and proud of it. A Scots guest then adds Scotch, and fond oft.
Industry workforce rose to 83,396 from 79,648 in 1933 by 5 percent. Capital invested in plant and equipment grew to 43 million dollars, up 6 percent. Inland fisheries produced 4.78 million dollars in marketed value, seasheries 341.386 million, led by canned salmon output in British Columbia. Cod and lobster sectors added hundreds of thousands, BC pritchard and other varieties boosted totals.
A humorous exchange questions a framed item on display, revealing it as a stock certificate rather than a formal college diploma. The dialogue notes the certificate marks experience rather than academic achievement, highlighting the misinterpretation and the character’s witty retort.
The dialogue recalls salty rural wit about failing crops. Silaz and Hiram joke about string beans and corn yielding so poorly one year that the harvest barely covers the strings and a single meal devours acres. This vivid rural flavor reflects a time when agrarian life framed daily humor.
A diaristic week recounts small town life from Friday to Thursday. The writer notes boyish crushes, upcoming summer break, a marriage proposal and farm inheritance, chores, a misread cough medicine, and a mock arrest day in a one horse town with locals Jake Lisbeth Ellen Gawn and Ed Yix.
A fragment captures a heated exchange where one partner accuses the other of a mistaken engagement, insisting the marriage was not a surprise but a misstep. The terse line hints at an abrupt personal breakup or conflict.
A brief exchange notes a daughter arranging a plan for the plane and an elder remark on finally achieving peace. The dialogue reflects light domestic humor in a clipped newspaper style.
A vintage Kellogg advertisement features Mr Henry Lecour praising All Bran for chronic constipation over 25 years. The copy touts bulk, added vitamins, and ease of use with two tablespoonfuls daily, urging readers to ask their doctor if not relieved.
A damaged OCR shows multiple names and offices in Acton and Georgetown, including Dr J A McNiven and Dr E J Nelson for Physicks and Sergeen Electro Therapy, Harold Nash farmer, M A Barrister Solicitor Notary Public Conveyancer, and P Co Bax. Listings give street addresses Mill Street Acton, Main Street Georgetown, and Welshman Block, with office hours and appointment notes.
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