Recollections of Acton 1897 Local Notes and Transfers
Recollections from Acton describe residents returning for Thanksgiving and family visits. The Guelph Norway Iron and Steel Co property was auctioned for 97,000 dollars, exceeding its 48,000 dollar cost to shareholders. Local concerns include Mr Taylor of Guelph and business expansions by Storey and Son in hunting boots production. A birth announced: a son to Mr and Mrs James Gibbons Jr. on November 25.
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Robt
Scott
Mar
Firstbrook
Bower Avenue
Mist Dalby Nicklin
Misces Fyfe
Guelph Collegiate Institute
Issas Helen ‘Symon
Eliza Meu Hame
N. P. Melam
Hierte
Sarnia
Guelph Norway Iron and Steel Company
Monuments Begin at Creber Bros Factory and Rail Collision
The Free Press notes Creber Bros. now makes monuments in their new eastern factory. A freight derailment on the CNR disrupted traffic today, with three cars off the track and lines torn up, causing long delays and rerouting. The Acton Fire Brigade held a well attended annual ball and supper last Friday, while the Community Glee Club plans a Christmas Tree event. Died Wilson Nassagaweyna aged 54 at his home Concession 2 Nassagaweyna December 9, 1927.
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Fairy Lake
Creber Bros
Traffico
C.N.R
Acton Fire Brigade
Acton Community Glee Club
Wilson
Nassagaweyna
Tohn Freemin Wsan
Among New Faces As Fall Term Begins
Youth leave home to study and work at colleges and preparatory schools facing homesickness and new surroundings. Many adapt quickly, find friends, and gain confidence as they pursuing new studies or jobs, while others adjust to unfamiliar environments and critics.
Martyrs to Illness Denounce Fear in Health Policy
A health official urges avoiding fear and self indulgence over illness. The Department of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa calls for embracing better health and resilience instead of grim resignation.
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Department of National Health and Welfare
Ottawa
Labor and meat prices in wartime Canada debate
A graphic labor broadcast notes workers from United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America seeking wage hikes and a five day week to enjoy a Saturday Sabbath. The piece contrasts profits at a major Canadian meat packer with wartime price controls and analyzes causes of price rises, including livestock costs and farm policies.
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Drachiman
CREYV
Weing
United Packinghouse Workers
Canada
Elbert Hubbard
Great Britain
Lahar
United States
Wei
Who's Who in Divorce Waves Stirs Debate
The passage notes a proposal to publish a list titled Who's Whose as the divorce trend eases. It discusses documenting current marriages and separations, suggesting a public record of personal relationships.
Sunday School Lesson On Walking In Truth and Joy
The lesson discusses walking in the truth as a daily practice, not a one time discovery. It links steadfast faith to personal sanctification and happiness, and notes ministers’ joy from Christians living out gospel truth with sincerity and consistency. It urges sincerity, doctrinal fidelity, and holiness as proof of genuine belief and ministerial faithfulness.
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Sponta
Christ
Apostle
Jesus
Walking in Truth and Faith in the Christian Life
A sermon discusses walking in truth as central to Christian life. It contrasts true ministers who show humility with Diotrephes who seeks preeminence and condemns church power struggles. The message urges believers to live rightly, seek truth, and maintain a good report through steadfast faith.
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Apostle
Alethesses
Demetrus
Pink elephant and green rat walk into a bar
A whimsical scene shows a pink elephant and a green rat entering a cocktail bar. The bartender remarks they are early and that someone else has not yet arrived.
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Acton
Ellness
ST. George's Square
Guelph
Ontario
Chapple’s
Wyndham St. Guelph
Angus Hennedy
R. M. Bell
Optometrist
Ekn
Mong A Georgetown
Stadiliabrhs
FOI Cledraulic & Gabril
Alrotyi Shock Arhoiuiers
and Eis
ENS
Kentucky
Elizabeth Arden
Cooper’s Drug Store Mill
St. Acton
Guitoegh
GRKPW
Westinghouse
McEachern Electric Mill Street
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