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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1929
Page
2
An old devotional verse reflects the suffering of feeble babes and the nursing mother’s devotion. It speaks of God’s patient love and the cost of maternal care, invoking the great heart of God and the saving power of love beyond life.
The narrator muses on spring chores and household projects that never end as partners juggle two jobs into one. They share a humorous recipe to coax a man into finishing tasks and reflect on hope, prayer, and the seasonal cycle of farming and labor.
A legend says an Engilah commodore muted tormentors by promising to answer one question only. He asked how he lost his leg, they answered in turn and he claimed the leg was bitten off. Francis Denk and Napoleon anecdotes show rulers using shocking tales to deter visitors.
Alonzo Sawyer, a seventeen year old horse lover, faces a moral test when a stranger offers him a cribbing horse for a quick sale. Lon chooses honesty, informs the buyer he can cure the cribbing and refuses to cheat, earning trust, a future job, and a commission for the successful operation.
The New York Sun portrays self sacrificing mothers in urban slums who balance child education with running crowded lodging houses. One mother refuses a boat excursion to care for her brood while a barber family argues with a health visitor over sleeping with windows open at night.
Tourists on a Dublin street point to figures atop a building and ask what they represent. A driver responds in a garbled exchange about the twelve Apoatjes, while the others insist on seeing only three, revealing misread signage and a language mix.
An Irishman with ragged clothes stood before a magistrate charged as a vagrant. He laid on the table a loaf of bread a half dry loaf and several cold potatoes and asked what the judge thought of them declaring they showed no means of support.
A rambling reminiscence recounts a fourteen year old's first night in Chicago in September, arriving with thirty dollars, lugging a heavy bag and a typewriter. A railroad agent directs him to a hotel and he finds kindness from a watchful night porter who guards the boy’s savings in a safe. The night ends with the boy sleeping soundly after a fraught trek and uncertain welcome.
An article traces tea as luxury in the eighteenth century, noting tea caddies as prized decorative items. It highlights materials from mahogany to tortoiseshell, mentions notable makers, explains the word caddy origin, and observes a modern hobby of collecting old caddies across the US, UK, and Canada.
A comic tale recounted by Toronto police recruits Pat and Mike. They try to identify a street, mishear Webaulay Street, then drag a dead horse across Queen Street to Hay Street, claiming they cannot spend Therawtey.
A long suffering asthma patient reports relief after using Br. JD Joys Asthma Remedy. The advertisement claims comfort, sound sleep, and renewed well being with regular use and urges readers to ask their druggist for supply.
A man known as A Heatthinne creates a device called a magic money maker that prints counterfeit bills by guiding paper through rollers. He shares the trick with his wife, who dutifully tears the produced notes into pieces when warned of arrest, leaving him to spend days reassembling them.
In the Quebec mining district 349 miles north of Felicien a new mine manager faced a hungry crew without a stove. General Steel Wares of Montreal arranged an Algoma camp cook stove. The 146 pound range was packed, shipped by rail to Bt. Pelican, then flown by seaplane to the mine, supplying a noon meal eighteen hours after leaving Montreal. The feat sparks northern aviation speculation.
A reflection on the constant activity of thought. It argues many thoughts are worthless unless we map out a purposeful course and analyze what we think about. The piece urges stopping to assess thinking to avoid waste.
An old recruitment notice lists positions in motor mechanism harstery barbering culture work and other trades with contact hints. It mentions Dominion Chartered Schools and CWC West Toronto, inviting applications by writing or calling.
A fragmented quote from Benton urges perseverance despite frequent failures. It emphasizes resisting self-consolation through superficial virtues and staying on the path toward improvement.
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