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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
2
Motivational lines urge self belief and mental discipline. It warns that defeat begins in the mind and stresses thinking high to win life's battles. The passage contrasts self doubt with proactive mental effort and champions steadfast perseverance.
Susan, weary of her 20 years married, plans a modest trip tied to Eben's mare savings. Charity suggests Susan stay at Charity's house for a week, with Martha coming to help, using Charity's pantry and beds as a cost free excuse. Susan agrees to visit, imagining a respite from her dull routine while William remains at home.
Susan, after years of dull routine, discovers life beyond Charity's rooms. She bonds with Clara’s library, studies birds and insects from her book collection, and resolves to travel to Eden’s for new sights, while Charity notices a changed Susan and questions her own life.
The text lists famed physicians and large payments for attending royals and a child's illness, including Deblot for the late King of Greece and Armour for a child in Chicago. It also notes plans by Gale for a large fee with no cure, and Baron Dimsdale with extensive travel compensation. The piece then shifts to first aid guidance stressing immobilization and splinting of fractures before professional care, advising simple splints from wood and careful bandaging to avoid moving jagged bone ends and to keep the patient quiet awaiting a physician.
The preacher Bishop Noeyd, praised as one of Ynglind’s wittiest, faces interruptions at a meeting where an atheist provokes with nuisance remarks. A retort is used to calm the crowd as the atheist’s interruptions intensify.
Grandmother recalls moving onto the Simpson place and the vow to brighten bleak lands with trees shrubs and garden, planting elms maples and native species. Her husband raised a fence around a catbird nest as fruit trees bore, and a buyer paid $500 more than asking, tuning life to make a farm beautiful and useful.
The article argues that grain marketing has evolved into a complex, highly organized system with specialized departments and expert advisers. It cautions against simplistic calls to remove middlemen, noting the interdependent parts of the market and the impracticality of mastering all departments. Also mentions Miller's Worm Powder, promoting its quick bowel and worm-clearing effects.
A disjointed narrative excerpt depicts a mother out for the evening and a tired father attempting to manage a household. A sudden call from a child disrupts the scene as the father resists bedtime duties while a talent man faces implied critique, reflecting a tense domestic moment.
Ruths wavvy youth declares love to Ruth and asks her father’s permission. The father calmly responds Ruth would not marry him, suggesting she would have chosen without such a request if she wanted him.
A Canadian testimonial flood touts Buckley’s Bronchitis Mixture as a world’s best cough remedy. Letter writers claim dramatic relief from bronchial symptoms after short doses, praising the product’s efficacy and refund guarantee. Sold at 75 cents, with local hold in Acton by A. T. Brown.
A garbled passage discusses a claim about a product called Followay's Gorn Remover. It mentions careful examination, warnings about early action, and that the product can be used without danger or injury. Names and clear facts are incomplete.
A garbled OCR passage shows broken dialogue and names with unclear meaning. The text includes stray phrases like Hello Bam Mot ang and Why don't you Men out of fad with references to wounds and money but the context and facts are unreadable.
The catalogue advertises no common courses, allows immediate entry any day, and emphasizes home study options. Written by W. H. Shaw, President, 305 Yonge Street, Toronto.
An ad from Bond Hardware in Guelph offers automobile and start skates with model numbers Bkatow Akates and Akates and others. It promises one year guarantees on skating gear and replacement if defective, with pricing noted and a special sale.
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