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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 21, 1926
Page
3
The text presents a series of color rich phrases pairing seasons with imagery. It lists Winter as silver and descripts Spring as green, Summer as rainbow, and Autumn as golden. Authored in a Youth's Companion style attribution to John Hantogrm.
Jean seeks independence in a city layover and calls Jim Turner for a sailboat plan against her father’s rules. The exchange leads to a short ride on a trim craft across the lake where she questions trust and forgives herself after returning to the station. The verse “The Hills of Home” contrasts travel with familiar hills and home’s calm.
Canon Hammond recalls a Cornish fireman who after seeing flames vows to return home and put on his uniform. In a New England town a fireman misreads a scene and jokes about a hen coop. He then prepares to respond as bells ring in the night.
The Bishop of Londion spent a weekend at a friend's country house and played tennis Monday with the host's young son. Normally confident, the bishop struggled as the boy easily won several games. Between matches the bishop quipped about the opponent's service, prompting the boy to reply they were even after yesterday's play.
A reminiscence from the old Free Press recalls Acton’s 1876 council. Reeve McGarvin and councillors handled tavern licenses, by laws, and early fire protection plans while facing budgets, road work and street policing.
Reeve dismissed a liquor case for want of evidence and liability for the constable’s fees was discussed. Councillors argued whether the payment should come from the council or individuals. A motion to pay the constable’s account passed with three votes in favor and one against. Additional charity funds and small town expenses were noted before concluding the session.
A humorous Hyde Park tale follows a dowdy blue and black turban that struggles to leave a neighbor’s porch. After a series of comical attempts at disposal, the hat is transformed by an unlikely makeover and a self styled designer.
A vintage humor item from the Cleveland Leader presents three conundrums about telling time. A father splitting nineteen and zero cents yields quarter to two. A postmaster at a menagerie brings an eight p.m. hour. A restaurant lobster exchange leads to a second guest telephone number 8 1 2.
A boy speaks with his mother about the severe water shortage and asks if he should give up being washed to aid thirsty children. The mother asks what he wishes to give, and he earnestly proposes sacrificing his own washing to help those with little water.
A column argues that disciplined behavior starts at home and school cannot instill obedience alone. An employer punished a disobedient office boy, who then blamed his parents for not teaching obedience. The piece contends parental responsibility is greater than ever for shaping conduct.
At eleven thirty one Mr Stone retires only to hear a call about a new automobile. He answers to the caller asking if he inconvenienced him. Stone replies with dry wit, claiming he was writing beside the phone for a potential call.
A brief excerpt urges boiling a thought down to a short crisp expression. It emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and direct meaning before speaking or writing a response. The verse counsels readers to sharpen ideas into plain plainspoken language.
An old prose meditation on motives guiding travelers and explorers. It contrasts misguiding crusaders with discoverers planners and creators who build under spiritual ideals. The text presents families home builders and moral heirs as Sons of God and brothers of men.
Architectural jokes show in stone as monks preach to wild geese and a Bedfordshire Hertfordshire farmhouse inscribes If you are cold go to Hertfordshire on a cross county living room beam. The fireplace sits in Hertfordshire while the room spans two counties.
After Pekin, the Lotos Club in New York hosted Wi Ting-fang, the Chinese minister. Guests crowding for autographs asked him to sign in Chinese, then misread his signatures. Chow Tsz-Chi, the consul, read the playful lines as if the writing mocked him.
The article argues that education is more than schooling and memory training. It stresses practical value, noting Greek roots and bookkeeping as useful foundations, and cites a bank president calling classical training beneficial to business insight. It urges youths to understand what education seeks to achieve.
A fragment recounts quirky names from a family, noting Alsace Lorraine Jones and Lorrain Nichols. It mentions a seaside foundling named Pearl adopted by kind folk who gave her the name By-the-Sea, and later she marries a man named Shore to become Pearl By-the-Sea Sh ore. The piece plays on punning names without a formal event or date.
The transforming power of cheerfulness converts drudgery into pleasure and makes simple meals feel fit for a king. It brightens home life, turning difficulties into success and success into inspiration, lifting everyday tasks beyond hardship.
A correspondent recalls Biddy, a tidy honest servant whose oil can nearly caused a blaze. She claimed oil never harmed anyone, but kerosene accidents are common and fear of spills leads to locking the can. A morning of fright with oil over a grate is described.
A Western paper recalls an old Yorkshire yeoman on his deathbed. The minister prompts a final confession, and the dying man quips that if he could live life again he would fish more with bait and less with files.
A Washington Star writer recounts a morning exchange where Mr Green and Farmer Cornteasel discuss a boy named Josh Ixon. The farmer pauses before confirming the boy has invented many labor saving devices, only to answer that they are excuses for not working.
A clerk tells an Aestiman the Jetter is overweight and must get a new stamp. Pats asks weight and the Irishman jokes that adding another stamp would make it heavier. The exchange uses broad humor about postal stamps and language.
Local druggist EB. J. Hassard offers Rheuma with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The ad claims Rheuma acts quickly on kidneys liver stomach and blood to relieve painful rheumatic symptoms at a small price.
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