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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
7
A reflective verse fragment questions daily deeds versus future promises. It ponders what acts of kindness feeding the hungry and building hopeful futures have actually been done today, contrasting aspiration with present effort.
The Free Press recalls Acton events from January 22 1926 including the first snow plow on the G T R in months, Merchants Bank’s twentieth anniversary with J B Wallace as first manager, election updates, a fatal burn incident involving Pansy Forbes, and notices on the Acton Horticultural Society, church calls, a marriage in 1919, and obituaries for Elizabeth Myles Lindsay.
W Rupert Davies of the Canadian Press calls on every Canadian from farmers to factory workers to subscribe to the First War Loan. He asserts the fight is for freedoms including a free press, free schooling, market prices, and self rule. He compares this to the Red Cross drive and stresses life or death stakes and unity behind Canada’s front.
A middle aged writer critiques child psychiatry after observing a hospital examination of a boy with a slightly crossed eye. He questions experts who label children as subnormal, praises family doctors, and defends old fashioned practical medicine over psychological charts. Einstein is invoked with the phrase It All Depends.
A Sunday School lesson on Matthew 20 17 28 warns that true greatness in Christ comes from self renunciation and servant leadership. Jesus rebukes James and John for seeking higher offices and teaches that the first must be slave to all, sharing in Christ's cup and suffering.
A local feature reflects on the Acton family and their weekly pages of life in the album titled Turning Over the Pages. Residents recall familiar faces from past years as they follow family milestones.
The Free Press recalls Very Rev. T. Albert Moore now in Toronto and the late Rev. J. W. Rae from Knox Church Acton with a Main Street church opening. Readers sent in school class photos from Acton and two Winnipeg photos, noting faded tin-types hinder reproduction.
A sergeant on a rifle range warns shooters about a new bullet that can penetrate nearly two feet of solid wood. He urges all personnel to keep their heads down for safety and discipline.
An elderly buyer at an English country market purchases two live geese from a cherry cheeked country girl who refused to sell one without the other. The maid explains the geese had lived together fifteen years and it would be cruel to part them.
Ontario refinery can process 8 000 to 10 000 tons of premium compounds annually and extract multiple materials while Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake surpasses 100 grams of radium. output and ore reserves rise as three mill capacity increases to 135 tons daily and costs fall.
The first municipal government of the Northwest Territories began operations in Yellowknife on January 1 1940 under the Local Administrative District Ordinance. The five member board includes J Mc Niven and George Carter with John E Gibben as chair, Otto Thibert, and Keith Miller as the other trustees. The district covers about forty square miles around Yellowknife Post Office with about one thousand residents.
A man asks if pests rise before drowning and reveals his future happened after marrying the Wreguard who saved him. The odd exchange hints at a vow tied to a near-death moment and a union born from rescue.
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