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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1931
Page
5
The Free Press reports a flurry of visits with Toronto as the central hub. Numerous residents including Mrs H P Moore, Mr Pred Johnston, Miss Olive Robinson, Mr Eugene McPherson, and others spent weekends or week-ends in Toronto or hosting visitors from there.
The text records a rough dialogue between characters identified as Jack Joe and Dittle Jack about someone stealing a kitty. The lines indicate tension and a threat to involve a woman who may take away the remaining buck.
Funeral rites were held for John Wilderspin of Acton and district after a fall at work on a Bell Telephone pole. He was 42 and left wife Alma and daughter Erma, with many from Canada and England sending condolences. The accident occurred while removing wire from a 30 foot pole near Aurora. he suffered brain and internal injuries and died at Newmarket Hospital. He served with the Fourth Battalion in World War I and had worked for Bell Telephone for seventeen years. Burial was at Fairview Cemetery Acton with military and community honors.
Milton man 35, son of the late Mr and Mrs William Durnin, died after a fall from a ground floor window at his home on Pouarl Street Milton. An inquest will be held. he belonged to Grace Anglican Church and was a Conservative. Survived by two brothers, John Durmin of St Thomas and Frederick of Milton.
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