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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1932
Page
6
A poetic meditation on the sunrise and the sun’s daily passage from darkness to light. The narrator contemplates the sun’s beauty, its movement across the sky, and the life it feeds, concluding with attribution to J. B. Rittenhouse.
Twenty years ago a heavy Sunday frost damaged tender garden plants and vines, with turnip markets rising as two buyers compete and prices up to 12c. E W Grace grows nine foot sugar cane for stock feed. C C Speight moves to rebuilt Williams Block quarters. his hardware stock shows well. Clarridge Diary wagon spills after a near-GT railroad collision. cream spilled. Young Men’s Bible Class hosts Young Ladies’ Class at W Coles Elgin Street. Harvest festival at St Alban’s Church admired for flowers, grain, and fruit. Rev H H Wilkinson preaches. Walter Flood and family plan return to England after years in Acton. B F Caldwell takes Beardmore mill lease, aims for steady operation. Protestant Churches union chair visits foreign quarters on Queen Street and Beardmore Crescent for a song service.
A fragment notes a cheap extermination remedy linked to the term Graves and a teaching claim. The vendor states the product can be obtained at any druggist.
Collect worn kerosene or gasoline lamps and lanterns now worth 1.50 toward a new Coleman lamp or lantern. The deal pairs old units with low prices, allowing a genuine Coleman from about 7.50. Coleman lights have long been praised for 300 candle power of steady white illumination per penny night, with dealers promoting this limited time offer.
An elderly German couple sought to buy a farm adjoining their property for 16000 dollars. Entering the bank with a battered milk pail as a teller’s counting aid, they counted out funds only to discover 14000 remained. The moment of concern passed as the wife found relief.
A compact study notes Jesus teaching on prayer from Matthew 6 5 15 and Luke 18 1 14. It emphasizes private prayer over public display the Lords model prayer and the call to seek Gods will daily. It also highlights the Bible's power to impart salvation faith and guidance through Christ Jesus.
Mile after mile of apple blossoms delight motorists along Nova Scotia roads in early summer. Orchards glow with color in autumn as boughs bear golden crimson and sun kissed fruit inviting delivery barrels for winter. Gravenstein Ribston Pippin Golden Russet Fallawater and other varieties satisfy all palates amid traces of old Acadian orchards.
Guidance from Dominion Experimental Station Lennoxville on feeding pullets during winter confinement to avoid molt and maintain steady egg production. Emphasizes gradual feed changes, balance between mash and grain, and a daily ration plan with green feed, scratch grain, moist mash, and a full evening scratch. Includes precise ingredient ratios for the current scratch grain and laying mash.
The article outlines how to raise pullets suited for Egg Laying Contests emphasizing good parentage, vigor, fecundity, and normal breed size. It urges using proven sires, disease-free rearing on clean ground, and proper feeding, warning against forcing growth and stressing timely, normal development for high egg production.
A quirky downtown scene unfolds as Mr. Darms and Miss Wiltes debate a shopping errand. He jokes about not knowing his companion’s alligator shoe size while a girl’s request lingers unanswered, capturing local humor.
Timetables show eastbound trains daily except Sunday with a Chicago line passing Acton at 9 40 p m and stopping at 9 48 p m eastbound. Westbound service operates Sundays only with departures at 10 07 a m 12 28 p m 6 12 p m and 8 00 p m. Georges schedule lists 7 40 a m 9 08 a m 2 28 p m 7 00 p m 9 10 a m and 10 28 p m.
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