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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1938
Page
17
Funeral arrangements announced for infant son of Gordon and Phyllte Heian. Service at St Josephs Church Acton then burial at Online Cemetery. Interment to follow at 9 oclock Friday morning.
January centers on new for the formary sales and clearing of winter stocks. Slippery pavement and heavy snow hinder highway travel while Acton Arena hosts the Rural Hockey League. The coroner reports 68 more deaths in Toronto. Ruth Chaon the soprano appears on CKOC. Ernest Adette released from county jail for stealing a coat. Mary R Moore Girls Guild meets at Mrs C Kirknemroo’s home to start the year with worship. Subscription rates rise but home paper price stays fixed. Mr Hrd linger preaches at Bart Mission and is well received.
The junior team dropped a Milton matchup in overtime amid travel delays and scattered notes from Acton and Kirkland Lake. Players faced a long trip back as organizers and spectators discussed the next home debut for the squad.
Olympic star Sonja Proof, a champion figure skater, stars opposite Tyrone Power in a Twentieth Century Fox feature at the Oregon Theatre. The article notes her decade of dominance at international meets from Oslo to Paris and her move into motion pictures.
A cryptic verse teases a solution built from letters, mentioning a fivefold sequence and a final hidden word. The passage then shifts to a promotional note about new motion picture films from the National Parks Bureau, highlighting color and black and white titles and international distribution.
In a rugged Appalachian setting a Mountaineer performer shares amused self talk about loneliness and humor as a travel tale. The piece captures rustic wit and personal reflection through a first person voice.
Fragmentary diary style scene describes Bertie and mother returning home soaked after marching on a bridge. A young narrator mentions being drenched and a toppled something, with a hashtag of disorder and a collapsed moment.
The letter recalls Christmas in Acton with family gatherings and a tree laden with gifts from distant friends. John Antiiff returns home after serving, while younger relatives prepare meals and entertainments. The writer notes improved health, Calgary plans, and a flood of Christmas greetings to the town postal staff.
The Acton village council discusses town books auditing funding. C F Leatherland is appointed Clerk and Treasurer for 550 per year. Clerk barred from accepting cigarette license fees for a few months.
A cryptic meditation blends personal memory with cultural symbols, exploring joy, presence, and inner conflict. The prose conjures a tension between duty and desire as it circles themes of certainty and doubt in contemporary experience.
The article reports a royal engagement between a king's cousin and a German prince. Details are scarce due to garbled text but indicate a formal marriage connection within European nobility.
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