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Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Sep 27, 1933

Page

8

You must sow to reap rewards in life and sport

The piece urges effort and persistence. It likens pain before pleasure, rain before a rainbow, and digging deep for gold to success. It emphasizes real knowledge, honest effort, and keeping social ties, noting that setbacks heal and life smooths lumps through time.

Economical Dainties: Prunes and Prune Betty Desserts

Two affordable dish ideas with step by step instructions for Baked Prunes and California Prune Betty. Includes fruit, bread crumbs, prune juice, spices, and serving suggestions with mid meal drink and decorative plate garnishes.

Bananas Baked in Orange Juice with Sugar

Thoroughly ripe bananas baked in their skins for about 15 minutes. Split skins, mash pulp, mix with orange juice and brown sugar, return to skins, and serve warm. Serves 6.

Marshmallow Pie Recipe and Farm Oil Notice

Marshmallow pie recipe details ingredients steps and cooling in a baked shell with meringue topping. Also notes a farm remedy advertisement for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a horse and cattle medicine and alternative to sweet oil.

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Derelict Ends Up With Old Man's Money

James Duby pockets a found roll of bills from a mossy bundle, but returns them after a confrontation with Donald MacLaren. MacLaren forgives him encouraging a final course of honest work, and Duby later lives out his days in the camp nearby.

MacLaren James Duby Donald Donald MacLaren Jim “Duby Logan's Landing

Hudson Bay Route opens as Churchill port grows exports

Seven boats already loaded and cleared with six more under contract, about twenty vessels may load at Churchill this season carrying up to 5.6 million bushels of grain via Canada’s Hudson Bay port. The 13 ships contracted will move roughly 3.6 million bushels, with earlier exports from Saskatchewan elevators. The Hudson Bay route, pioneered since the seventeenth century, gains significance with rail terminal facilities and the 1931 1932 shipments from Churchill to Liverpool and European ports.

Churchill Canada Hudson Bay Sasktachewan Hudson Strait Liverpool New York Montreal Belle Isle Straits Minneapolis St. Paul

Cleaning Grease from Rugs with Flour and Turpentine

A quick home remedy to remove grease from rugs uses flour to absorb the spill then blotting power with a hot iron. Finish by dabbing the area with a flannel dipped in turpentine for best results.

Dominion Experimental Farms Salad Fibre Flax and Planting Tips

Central Experimental Farm reports flax fibre harvest light due to hot dry summer. Straw will rett after deseeding and be baled for market. Peonies planted with manure and bonemeal, mulch advised, autumn leaf disposal to curb disease spores. Tips for potatoes include harvest timing, storage, frost protection, and avoiding handling when under cooled. Swede roots for seed stored in pits or cool cellars. care in harvest and tops removal. Also a promotional note for Dr Kellogg asthma remedy with claim of relief.

Canada considers large scale rock wool from Ontario deposits

A Canadian Department of Mines report indicates potential large scale manufacture of rock wool in Ontario from Niagara peninsula deposits. High quality rock wool has been produced in labs and may become a versatile insulation material for buildings, ships, trains, and acoustical uses. Dr. C. H. Laws urged open, free thinking.

Niagara Peninsula Ontario Department of Mines Canada

Canada outlook boosts 1934 mineral output and gold rise

An interim report on Canada’s mineral industry projects gold production reaching 100 million dollars in 1934 with base metals improving exports. Nickel and copper output reach new highs, while zinc and lead also show gains. Fertile growth is noted across gypsum lime cement and petroleum sectors with many re opened or rejuvenated properties driving development.

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