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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
1
London machinery supplies and dairy supplies limited announce distribution partners Yale and Peterboro Lock Co and Builders' Hardware Agents for mill supplies and hardware.
A note indicates a piano featuring patented improvements is sold only by a single exclusive dealer, emphasizing the unique design and restricted distribution as a selling point.
A school’s opening day evokes pride and nerves as students adjust to new clothes and classrooms. Clarence, seeking to help Frank Hailey, finds him thickly settled in city hardship and learns of Frank’s struggle to secure work.
Frank Halley, dreaming of a city life, confides his farm toil hopes to Clarence Eyedan. Clarence encourages but forgets his ambitious kin, while Frank saves the farm through autumn harvest and departs for the city. A sudden encounter with Edith’s New York guest forces a tense reunion.
A fragment reflecting on offering help through kindness to a troubled person. Mentions Theo, amile, chair, book, flower, and a kind word as comforting actions. Notes a quiet sympathetic luck or amilo and a heart seeking aid that you can provide. Authors or names appear as Josephine Vol yard.
Clarence confronts Frank about a past theft and offers help with repayment under a firm condition to avoid further trouble. Their late night talk ends in gratitude as Clarence accepts responsibility, discovery of happiness through duty, and a resolve to reform.
Twenty years ago W R Kenney builds a barn and shed on Church Street. A Secord fall through a trap door injures, Mrs Secord recovering. Carpenter Edward Hill and contractor Alex Crippa hurt in a January incident. Milton Acton gun club contest won by Milton. listed shooters. Fire brigade test by Fospectare Howe and town response. Market prices: flour 2.40 per 100, hay 5.00 per ton, eggs 9 cents per dozen, butter 14 cents, potatoes 25 cents. Archie Howe of Church Street Acton noted. Joseph Weasley Campbell aged years and 4 months.
An historic account describes Bagdad as the ancient capital of the Sanken empire under King Noha lineage. It notes a population around 150 000, a mix of Arabs and Jews, with Turks as officials, a surrounding brick wall and deep ditch, ornate interior decorations, and 2000 domes and minarets dating to the twelfth century. It also recalls Bagdad as a 8th century caliphate center with over 2,000,000 residents.
A resident announced ownership of a goat in an English county town leading to borough intervention after the animal was deemed too intelligent. Officials served a Besament tax demand of two chillings, which the owner challenged by citing By-law 12 subsection a forbidding any obstruction on the highway.
A fragment cites Professor Boys of England experimenting with bubbler colors in sunshine for photo backgrounds. It mentions lubblas ware and heated abyss, plus a lawyer and McGuire dialog about deflusive actions and legal outcomes. The text shifts to shop dialogue and a mother promising Cousin Ethel’s visit, ending with a note on readability.
A devotional verse by M. A. Cochrane honors workers and the carpenter neighbor. It pleads for divine blessing on toil and the rising numbers who join the labor ranks, celebrating work as a divine delight and basic social bond.
In 1867 wood pulp paper transformed mass communication. The author recalls rag paper era and thrift, notes rag shortages could have limited printing, and asserts society adapted by finding substitutes without alarm.
An advocacy piece urges economy in food use across rural and urban areas. It cites Chicago cutting garbage by half through thrift and stresses individual responsibility to prevent hunger. It calls readers to practice real vision of economy and eliminate household waste.
A quirky historical note describes elephant dentition, claiming they lack front teeth and eat only soft foods. It mentions eight teeth in total with a huge movable tongue, milk teeth that fall by age fourteen, and legends of “baby teeth” kept by circus folk.
The letter argues high prices stem from shortages waste and manipulation in the market. It notes farmers sold wheat last fall at 1.40 per label while the current price reached 2.80, calling for a food controller to curb speculation and excess profits.
A jumbled fragment recounts a dangerous precipice and a tour guide remark about a missing warning board. It then shifts to advertising a Standard Medicine Vermaloeve Vegetable Line promising digestive benefits and worm remedies for children, urging mothers to recognize worm symptoms and use Millar's Worm Powder to expel worms quickly.
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