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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
4
A nostalgic verse and editorial notes recall Santa Claus and Christmas lore. It urges patience with merchants, reflects on family memories, and ends with quips about holiday shopping and common proverbs. The piece weaves a child’s dream with a founder’s memory of a grandfather and Christmas traditions.
A compact page long excerpt touts Bardock Blood Bitters to regulate stomachs and ease indigestion, featuring a Marshville Ontario testimonial and four decades of Toronto production. It also cites Holloway's Oil and a folk tale about Saint Nicholas of Padua and knitted stockings.
A reader from South River praises Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, saying a hacking cough lasting over a month was finally relieved after trying many remedies. The testimonial notes complete cure after two bottles and gratitude for the relief.
Early Christmas buying reduces last minute rush and keeps temper. Plan purchases at home, decide what you want before shopping, and avoid aimless browsing. Also promotes asthma remedy claim and general caution about worry and temper.
An advertisement urges readers to use Milburns Heart and Nerve Pills to strengthen the heart and nerves. It cites Mrs. Emil Brooks of Upper Gagetown NA reporting dizziness weakness headaches and fainting and credits two boxes with relief. Pills sold per box via dealers or by mail from The Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
Advertised ether tonic claims dramatic relief from ailments after trials. The text extols De Dr Thomias Eutectric Oil as potent medicine derived from six ingredients and urges readers to test its healing virtues for convincing results.
Mrs Roor of Moore Avenue Washington Park Illinois writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills cured her female troubles nervous spells backache and blues. She says the treatments restored youth and vitality and urges other women with similar symptoms to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for free advice.
A reflective piece notes Christmases seem to come in quicker succession and urges continued joy and kindness beyond the season. It argues that spreading goodwill year round brings humanity closer to divine aims and stresses serenity follows genuine indifference.
A sprawling Canada wide recap notes Union Government support efforts in Toronto and Ottawa, wartime measures, and incidents. It reports clergy urging prayer, rail and grain concerns, hospitalities, and trade news. Also covered are espionage cases, ship incidents, and political shifts across provinces with multiple named persons and firms.
Millers Worm Powders are claimed to exterminate intestinal worms and treat a range of child ailments. They are said to strengthen the stomach, counter biliousness, stimulate appetite, and ease feverish conditions and stomach pain in young patients.
Wildeor from Peterborough Ont reports four years of shoulder and head pain blamed on the liver. He used Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills and says they helped him recover, claiming the pills act gently to aid liver problems. The ad promotes Milburn's Lax Liver Pills by The T Milburn Co Limited Tecra nto Ont.
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