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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
6
Oddball summary of brief local notices and weather remarks including sleighing, water pipes protection, Valentine parties, motor prices, coal shortages, and town updates. Mentions Himira adoption talk, county women’s society week, and a council meeting on February 3.
The report covers incidents around the district from a combat nun's week end to a man dying on his farm near Iverton after milking. It lists local court actions in Campbellville, a bootleg whiskey dance inquiry in Brookville, church and society notes, and town administrative details including finances, new officers, and upcoming events in Georgetown and area towns.
A fragmented obituary notice lists charges for births marriages and deaths with various rates. It records a birth to Mr and Mrs John Walker later Mina Violet Thomas and several marriage and death notices including names such as Kathleen Langan Frank Gallowey and Allan Mot Tankld with dates from 1922 to 1930 and multiple memoriam entries for Macdonald Hobbes and Gamble among others.
The column highlights church and local society events in Oakville and nearby towns. It records fund totals for church activities, fairs, and missionary gifts, plus social gatherings at homes, hockey results, library and shipping notes, and upcoming lectures and parties across communities.
A fragmentary collection from a Victorian era publication features satirical dialogue on paying motile workers, a traveling peddler’s quips about aging and skill, and a banker conductor’s joke about road deaths. It also cheekily cites Uncle Khan and a note on diet trends, ending with a Sunday Pictorial reference.
The Tacoma Ledger argues many accidents are preventable and caused by ignorance or carelessness rather than fate. It contrasts cautious people mishandling guns with deadly weapon risks in everyday life.
An advertisement touts a new oil lamp that claims odorless, smokeless burning and higher efficiency than gas or electricity. It promises easy operation, no pumping, and potential earnings of 260 to 600 dollars monthly by selling agency opportunities, urging readers to contact the inventor F M Sohneon in Montreal and Berne.
A O DeFOREBT advertises night cleaning and sanitary services. Also offers dry wood for sale including soft mixed and No 1 hard at $300 up and cut 1 foot. Address 2402 Beong Hiraet, Acthn.
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