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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
5
The text presents a garbled dialogue from a radio piece with scattered phrases about music, looks, and a suggestion to speak up. It includes fragmented lines about ownership, personal prompts, and a reference to someone named Debette Marbere and a Father. The excerpt is incoherent and hard to interpret beyond noting it's a radio dialogue in a casual, informal register.
Local notices recount parish events in Georgetown and Knox Church with Christmas services at St Joseph’s Church. Elections for municipal posts are listed. war news notes Ladysmith casualties and reinforcements. A Christmas wedding Midgley Currie at Acton and a Canada peace message conclude with medical advice and humorous anecdotes.
Gertrude Meredith, far from family, finds solace in a Christmas star, a bright memory of home and brings gifts to her current house. Neighbors Johnson and wife decorate her room, while the family shares a sleigh ride and a warm dinner, easing her homesickness through acts of kindness.
A fragmented prose piece recalls Christmas memories from far lands and home, with thoughts of loved ones and gratitude as a clock ticks toward the night at a distant ranch. It blends religious sentiment with humorous musings and notes a Christmas goose and a famed asthma remedy.
A child argues at tea about finishing eggs while a nurse scolds him. The passage then advertises Miller's Worm Powders as a remedy for worms and various childhood ailments including appetite loss and stomach pains.
The Hickory Tree article explains the name derives from the Indian Pawcahiocoka a nut dressing for hominy crushed in a wooden mortar with water forming a milky liquid and suggests early settlers shortened it to hickory. Indians used hickory nuts as substantial winter food with some tribes gathering up to a hundred bushels per family. The piece also mentions Holloway's Corn Cure as offering relief.
A by law proposes appointing a Public Utilities Commission of four members to govern the Acton waterworks. First election schedules two one year and two two year terms, with two commissioners elected by ratepayers. Voting to occur January 5, 1920, at Town Hall and C C Speight’s shop, with specific Deputy Returning Officers named.
A fragmentary religious text cites the fellowship with God through Jesus Christ, stating that walking in darkness breaks truth while confessing sins brings forgiveness and cleansing. It concludes with a Golden Text reference: You shall be my witnesses from Acts 1:8.
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