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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 01, 1926
Page
2
A 1926 verse reflects Easter themes with imagery of bulbs blooming after winter. The speaker contrasts storms and sorrow with renewal, noting a white butterfly and lilies rising from the buried dead as a sign of resurrection. The poem ends with the message The Lord is risen.
An article explains how spider silk lines are used in surveyors tools like the transit to achieve ultra fine, accurately spaced lines. It describes production, assembly, and testing in the Interior Department’s Topographic Survey Laboratory, noting the exceptional fineness, strength, and elasticity of natural spider webs.
A tale describes Uncle Rastus, a self taught healer in a dim parlor, consults by neighbor Mr. Orlando Clay Jefferson about his wife’s severe headaches. He dismisses pills and offers to apply a large stubborn “puster” to the house, claiming it will end the wife’s staggering pains.
A garbled column hints at spring is coming with flowers preferred over weather forecasts. Confused notes mention Germany, kicks, and winter ending with odd references to turnips and home life amid unclear names and phrases.
In Lindendale, five Norman siblings quarrel over a hospital wing memorial room. Jean faces Easter sorrow as Pauline urges reconciliation. A florist supplies crocuses and the family turns to a shared project for sick children, restoring unity at Easter.
The Lindsay Post reproduces Kingston Standard views on free publicity for worthy causes. A daily editor argues newspapers must be paid for advertising space and printing costs, warning free publicity could wreck many papers and exhaust publishers' patience.
A Rome letter recounts a Genoa telegrapher’s failed attempt to send an urgent dispatch. After three tries a sleepy clerk answers with rude questions and a curt telegram misreads the minister’s contact, illustrating brutal incompetence and fear of action in a troubling bureaucratic anecdote.
A reader suggests a highbrow definition of work as the compulsory expenditure of psychological or muscular energy in activities devoid of immediate pleasurability but characterized by financial advantageousness. The note critiques the social view of labor and implies a rational-economic lens on work.
The Acton St Mary’s Parents and Teachers Guild reaches 220 members. The Acton Town Council buys Welsh steam coal for baths, fixes rents, and plans street improvements. A wide variety of local items follow, including church notices, court fines, and upcoming community events.
Advertisements tout McCoy's Cod Liver Extract Tablets as a quick health aid for thin weak children and malnourished adults. Claiming vitamins from cod liver, the ad pledges a 30 day trial with money back if no benefit, citing a sickly nine year old gaining 12 pounds in seven months.
A reflective piece contrasts easy cheer when luck favors a man with the true worth of a person who can smile even when a sewer backs up in his cellar. It notes Holloway's Corn Remover claims and its advertised power.
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