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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
7
A fragmentary OCR piece appears with irregular capitalization and stray phrases. It references backsliders, courage, a pledge to a "daily dozen," and a whimsical speaker noting changes, with an attribution line reading 74 John-M-GoPlaned. The text resembles a dramatic or poetic pastiche rather than a complete article.
Thursday January 30 1919 reports ice sellers in shirtsleeves, William Thompson buying Miss Minnie Mellon’s Willow Street residence, and servicemen including Lieut Martin Moffat, Ptes Joseph Laycock and Hubert McPherson returning from overseas. Obituaries note Elsie Viola McCutcheon and Jane Brown Matthews.
A broadside from Frank Wiggins Trade Evening School of Los Angeles defines educated as the enlargement of the mind and trained as the process of making the mind fit for a specific task. It argues many are educated without work, many trained without broad insight, and urges both qualities for true usefulness.
Toronto newsboy George Malaiko aged zero to hear Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera House. The manager funded Malaiko’s trip to New York after learning he offered a free paper for life for $21. The story also recalls Acton Ontario memories of community, church history, and old residents like Ezra Adams and Zenas Adams.
A lady rejects a company's brochure after a ship image appears rusted. She recalls a trip and insists the ship image be replaced. The incident ends with her leaving the scene as the dialogue centers on the offending depiction.
The Milk Nutrition Committee of Great Britain reports experiments in Britain the United States and Canada showing pasteurized milk yields equal or better growth in calves and provides safer nutrition for children. In Reading eleven calf pairs fed raw and pasteurized milk from the same herd show pasteurized group slightly heavier and fewer tuberculin positives. Similar Aberdeen trials show raw milk not superior and note tuberculosis risk from raw milk. John W S McCullough MD DPH.
A St Boniface wholesaler was fined 50 dollars and costs for selling eggs below grade to a retailer who claimed Grade A. Ontario and Ottawa cases followed with guilty pleas for delivering undergraded eggs and failing to mark cases properly. In Ottawa a peddler posed as a producer, offering Grade A eggs that were in fact Grade B.
Short classified ads urge readers to sell or buy items with promising results. They tout cheap rates of ten cents per word with a 25 cent minimum and claim hundreds of successful cases.
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