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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1928
Page
2
A playful exploration of English plurals and pronunciation highlighting exceptions like oxen vs ox, mice vs mouses, houses vs hus, men vs man, and odd forms for foot, teeth, breath, and cat pluralization, with a cheeky appeal to readers to consider how grammar twists shape language.
Alan, a resentful factory worker with limited schooling, undergoes a life changing enlightenment after attending a revival. He embraces bookkeeping training, earns a better position, and finds happiness through renewed faith and disciplined choices avoiding old company. His transformation earns him respect and offers a hopeful future.
Fragmented poetic meditation on forgetting midnights and past sins. A speaker urges mercy, forgiveness, and forgetfulness as the clock strikes twelve, describing the urge to discard memories and wrongs, and to prepare for a new beginning in the coming year. The piece blends intimate vows with grand, Shakespearean imagery and rhythm.
Acton and District Stores broken into in Georgstown with small sums of money and articles taken from Judkgon s Grandy s Gringer s and the Arena. An attempted break in at the Comtotup Stores was thwarted. the Ulleven fled. Golden Wedding Anniversary noted for Editor and Mira White of The Milton Reformer in Toronto Christmas Day. CG HL Turner reports corn borers in Halton County with 300 families visited and thousands of bushels of corn affected. plowing extent indicates efforts to prevent big losses next year.
A shipment of 1,000 live black foxes valued at about 600000 left Charlotte Town Prince Edward Island for Norway, the largest fox shipment to Europe. The deal highlights a booming fox farming industry in Prince Edward Island and multi million dollar investments in the trade. An unrelated Ottawa area accident on Woolwich Street in Guelph injured several, including a constable with a fractured hand. Oakville reporters note changes in local newspaper staff and management as the Prescott Journal passes to new leadership with Wilfred Crateau at the helm.
A reflective poem recalls the newspaper office and its editors, lamenting changes, duties, and the loom of time. It traces workers, sheds light on retired editors, printers, and the craft, linking personal memories to a neighborhood's evolving press landscape.
Readable text outlines a property history in a village, noting Misara crape, the Mann and Cooper families, and a Lumipens boundary near the northwest. It mentions a long-held cottage, a white house, longtime employees of the road, and a vanished white house with a monument inquiry, all framed as a local estate tale.
Inspector Denyes lauds the board's year of work as members attended a regular session presided by Chairman Harrison. The Finance Committee's twelfth report endorsed payments to multiple vendors with total disbursements and the board adopted the report. A teacher extension for Miss Anderson was granted and terms for Jean Barber’s engagement as teacher were set, with duties starting January 3 and ending June, salary $1,000 annually. An emergent meeting was scheduled to approve outstanding accounts for the new Onega school project.
The article describes a fashion piece in crepe satin with embroidery and a guedle at the left side. It mentions a self patent watch and phagry embellishments, with a design intended to enhance a flared effect and a mode size requiring 4 yards 39 feet retort.
A fragmentary sewing note describes rompers with a meat pattern, a Scallooped collar and stitched sleeves. It mentions pocket embroidery, center front reapers, bias trim, lower edge beaming, and a bold finish with a poster case. Medium size.
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