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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
14
Angele Morgan presents a memorial verse about unknown soldiers and their fame. The piece imagines sunlit majesty at dawn gates and stars passing through lattice as they greet their own grieving the unnamed fallen.
Twenty years ago reports from the Free Press note the Acton Citizens' Band in new uniforms. Local hires include Flynn Bros purchasing a 300 acre farm south of Acton. Various community items cover church services, marriages, and deaths with brief notices and updates.
The article notes crested wheat grass thrives in semi arid Western Canada, with drought tolerance, sod forming growth, and suitability for pastures lawns golf courses and roadsides. It is highly palatable to livestock especially horses and a strong seed producer with seed widely tested since 1915.
Neighbors visit and two skilled youths tune up the idle ginger farm auto dubbed Optimist. After oiling spark plugs and removing dirt they tow start the engine and drive into town. The author, eager to reclaim mobility after weeks, recalls radio bits and keeps hopes high for slower but steady road use.
A Brookville Rural School Fair on September 12 1935 lists prize winners across divisions. Winners include Jean Robertson Mildred Lindsay Douglas Anderson and many others in crops fruits and livestock categories.
Guests waited as the vicar delayed the wedding. Years later he met the groom and joked about the fright he caused, while the bride remained a sour memory for John.
A painter recalls dedicating ten years to create a single painting, only to spend the remaining time trying to sell it. The exchange highlights the long incubation versus difficulty finding buyers for art.
The list shows students and instructors across classes such as Primer and First Class items, Fourth Class notebooks, and Second Class scrapbooks. Notable entries include Eileen Wright, Violet Robertson, and Leonard Nightingale with various crafts and naming contests, plus harmonica and product map tasks.
A Dominion Agriculture guide offers steps to make Canadian gooseberry jelly from firm green berries using a mash, water, and a Trust press, then boiling and sealing in sterilized glasses. It also provides a gooseberry relish recipe with vinegar and spices, cooked briefly and sealed hot.
More than eighty percent of India's 350 million inhabitants work in agriculture. Despite efforts by government departments, modern practice is not universally adopted. Demonstrations show tractor plowing, noting one tractor can replace eight to ten bullocks and reduce weed losses, with Canadian machinery proving successful in tests.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture conducts a survey to explain why Canadian factory cheese output fell from 1925 levels to 1934 and beyond. Production dropped from 177,672,129 pounds in 1925 to 100,765,800 pounds in 1934, with an expected 70,000,000 pounds in 1935 valued around $6.825 million. Canadians have low cheese consumption per capita at about 3.14 pounds annually, yet are among the world’s largest butter consumers.
The Redipuglia war cemetery in Italy holds about 30,000 graves, of which 24,000 are unknowns unidentifiable to units. Graves lack crosses or monuments, with relics such as plane propellers, trench mortars, artillery fragments, rifles, tin hats, and an anti aircraft searchlight marking the memorial.
The notice lists daily eastbound and westbound schedules with Sunday runs and standard time. It notes a Chicago Milner pass through at 9 31 p m eastbound stopping Georgetown 9 40 p m 10 07 a m and lists various daily and Sunday only times for westbound trains.
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