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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
4
The Acton Sree Press in Acton Ontario publishes every Thursday morning from the Anglican Building. Subscriptions are $1.60 yearly in advance with US postage extra. Advertising rates and formats are listed, with contract display at negotiated terms and a contact for editor H. B. Mook.
The piece argues living costs may not fall soon due to global shortages. It cites overproduction of army bacon lowering prices, discusses July Inland Revenue figures, and notes Ontario Liberal and Temperance Act debates. It references figures like Premier Lloyd George, Frank Carvel, and Hartley Dewart, plus local forums and soldier voters.
The Collingwood Bulletin lauds Actoncoo Press editor H P Moore after forty one years in the chair and praises his service to Canadian journalism and Acton. The Farmers Sun urges liberal butter prices, liquor license fears, thrift gains, women in parliament, and Ontario reforms including prohibition and education.
Report on British wartime spending shows army costs of 3.824 billion with major items including medical and separation pay. Losses from a French ammunition dump fire, food waste for new Chinese laborers in France, and administrative failures prompted disciplinary action. Total losses and amounts remain partly unsettled.
Army correspondent reports George Borden of Goldsboro North Carolina has provided nearly two squads in sons to the war and is father of 35 children with 27 living. Four times married he has fathered quadruplets on four occasions and 14 of his offspring serve in the United States Army in the United States or France.
A British correspondent reports a German airship Itta left Bulgaria with twenty two crew, four and a half tons of munitions and medical supplies bound for German East Africa about 3000 miles away. While over Khartoum it did not receive any order to turn back as German troops in Africa had largely surrendered.
A fragmentary exchange recalls a minstrel tale about Caesar and a stingy reputation. A negro minister remarks on a cloaked brother, with a parable about Pharphnype and a coin offering to Jesus prompting the question whose subscription it was.
The article traces perfume origins in Egypt with Alexandria fame and religious rites. It notes aromatics diffusing at banquets, Jewish usage for vanity, and Greek and Roman adoption of fragrant airs. It also mentions later fame of Arabish, Venetian, and Florentine perfumery in sweet scents.
A young man brings poems to his father who reads them with tears in his eyes. The father, moved, laments that the son will starve despite the poems being excellent and real poetry. The scene ends with the father embracing the manuscripts and expressing despair.
In a dialect filled exchange, Wustus questions church attendance and active participation. He notes Pastor Brown and reports Horthal Green receiving a collection basket role after returning from Oval Thal. The dialogue suggests Green’s rise is tied to a lost hand.
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