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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Apr 10, 1924

Page

4

Perpetual care of Fairview Cemetery plots urged

Editorial argues that Acton Municipal Council has already accepted deposits from residents for perpetual care of Fairview Cemetery plots. It urges immediate council action to formalize and generalize perpetual care, noting sums already received and wills directing payments. The piece promotes making a statewide or townwide start now to ensure long term maintenance.

Fairview Acton Pairview Cemetery

The Principals of Good Citizenship

The article urges the rising generation to pledge good citizenship and be thinking, educated voters. It argues girls will be voters, warns against blind reliance on sample ballots, and stresses civic duties from tidying streets to improving schools. It lauds Julia Ward Howe’s idea and calls for active, intelligent participation in public life.

Julia Ward Howe America

Reforming the Senate from Within Debated in Canadian Senate

Senator Turriff proposed reducing Senate membership and retiring Senators at seventy five to reform the Senate from within. The government leader, Senator Dandurand, adjourned the debate after discussion. Open Season for Trout Deferred Until May Fifteenth criticizes Minister McCrea for delaying open trout season to May 15, arguing it harms spawning trout and offers little benefit.

Senate Senate of Canada Turriff Dandurand Charles McCrea Fish and Game Department Toronto

Canada Dairy Trade Expands Exports to United States

Canada’s cream and fresh milk exports to the United States rose markedly in 1023 from 1022. Cream reached 2,668,747 gallons worth 4,457,582, while fresh milk totaled 2,132,765 gallons valued at 437,215. Butter, cheese, powdered milk, and canned or preserved oilk also saw sizable amounts and values.

Canada United States

Prohibition repeal argued to curb bootlegger profits

The Globe reports that critics favoring repeal say liquor tax revenue should go to the provincial treasury via government sales. They cite BC and Quebec profits from government stores and accuse such policy of failing to curb bootleggers. Opponents warn government sale proves economically folly and advocate direct taxation instead.

British Columbia Quebec United States Ontario Globe

Forest town fined for waterworks order and editorials praise

The Forest town council was fined 1400 by Police Magistrate Woodrow for failing to install a waterworks system per Provincial Board of Health order. The Shalburne Economist marks twenty one years under T F E Claridge, praising his leadership and the paper’s community role.

Forest Woodrow Sarnia Provincial Board of Health Shalburne Economist T. F. E. Claridge Claridge Economist In- Alugnae Corp The

Engaged couple provokes steady banking boss laughter

The Spectator notes that being engaged unsettles people and taxes social norms. An old bank director reframes a lazy employee as needing to bring his fiancée to town before relieving him, suggesting he’ll become competent again if properly funded. The tale ends with the suggestion the young man may marry.

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Agricultural Board Proposes Broad Farm Policy Agenda

At the Kapuan Board of Agriculture meeting the group approved several resolutions aimed at boosting state highway funding from auto taxes, ending farm product marketing competition, endorsing farmer cooperatives, establishing milk as a national drink, taxing motor fuel for road work, advancing a waterway from the Great Lakes to the St Lawrence, promoting year round farming, and urging Congress to recognize agriculture’s national economic role.

Board of Agriculture of Atata of Kapuan Farmer-Controfigl Co

Middletown Etymology Joke Ends In Luminous Rebuttal

A professor obsessed with philology misleads a class by tracing Middletown to ancient roots. A bold student rebukes him with a witty derivation. The doctor probes for light as the class chuckles at the clever punchline about removing Moses and adding Sddietown.

Dryasduat Riddletown Middletown Moses Corns

Fragmentary Customer Complaint About Hair Restoration Claim

A garbled dialogue shows a customer disputing a hair restoration claim and a chemist or clerk offering excuses. The exchange touches on risk, danger, and the notion of returning to an original bald condition. The text preserves the quirky, imperfect transcription style.

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