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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 21, 1938
Page
7
Poetic selection by Amy Parkinson reflecting on death with Christian assurance. The speaker rejects the idea of death as final, envisioning a heavenly reunion, calm peace, and continued memory of loved ones while awaiting Jesus to call her home.
Twenty years ago notes from The Frew Pros on Thursday April 25 1918 recount the war economy with orders to fight or work and a light two inch snowfall. Homes changed hands as Ernest Hall bought the late Joseph McClure property and Martin Finn acquired Hall’s house, while Watt sold his Bower Avenue home to James Marks. A St Alban’s memorial service honored the war dead, with forty eight names on the roll including five who sacrificed all. A cable confirms Pte John Alexander Gordon killed in France on April 4. Obituaries record births including a daughter for Rev and Mrs H W Avizon in Galt Hospital. Marriages include Frederick Lowden and Edith Mary Walker at Kendal England.
An excerpt titled Slats Diary by Oliver N. Warren presents a boyish journal covering a week of school life. The entries describe classmates Jake and Blisters, a police shooting rumor, supper talk about electricity cooking, a cowboy past, and a woods outing with a flirtation misread by a young narrator.
The narrative blends an auction scene with a lengthy Acton street history. A bidder hails "Old Barney" and "Sid" as a team sold for 365, while the narrator recalls generations of tenants on Young Street. It recounts homes, stewardship, and a moving house episode near the GTR line culminating in Sam Laird and Ed Dynes’s tense railway moment.
A witty exchange shows a man ending his engagement to focus on saving, and his partner asks if he saved. He replies he saved by quitting smoking and by ending the engagement, pursuing further savings.
Veal profitability varies with butter prices and beef demand. Calves 150 180 pounds need about 650 pounds of milk. early veal sales yield higher returns. Marketing poor quality veal depresses prices. maximize mesh by allowing nursing and controlled exercise in clean, dark pens or box stalls to reduce energy waste.
Joseph Beauchamp, longtime district commercial inspector for Canadian National Telegraphs in Montreal, retired after a 50 year career. He recalls two major fires: Three Rivers and Camp Deaton where he reorganized and kept telegraph service alive using a portable unit at the pole base to relay news to damaged areas.
The Acton community gains a home institution through The Your Paper in your home. For $2.00, readers receive fifty two weekly visits, costing less than four cents per week.
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