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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1926
Page
2
The piece extols teachers as famous men shaping character beyond raw knowledge. It recalls Kipling’s praise and urges students to study their daily work and moral lessons. The poem invites readers to read aloud six stanzas to become a sympathetic pupil.
Tom Thorpe helps Kirke Caldwell, blinded and handicapped by injury, regain hope by arranging a university visit. Caldwell attends Wentworth's lecture, experiences renewed purpose in electrical engineering, and receives encouragement from professor Wentworth and the Thorpe family.
Dominion Agrostologist G P McRostie notes annual hay crops cut feed costs when mixed grasses and legumes outperform single seeds. A Japanese Foxtail millet and sweet clover mix yielded three and a half to six tons per acre, with hay quality improving and costs lowering even in poor hay years.
A letter cites several Great Lakes accidents during 1925 showing multiple shipboard fatalities. Instances include the S S Lethbridge at Port Arthur to Fort William crew deaths from slips and falls and a Welland Canal fatality from dock swing, with more losses claimed in December and summer incidents.
Fragmentary OCR reads about a young person complaining of unfair treatment and streetcar access. Mentions a neighbor and a father out of work, food health and shelter concerns, and calls for adequate meals. Content is highly garbled with missing context.
The Port Colborne Citizen reports a grand banquet in Port Colborne celebrating the Canada Cement Company plant for a full year 1925 without a lost time accident. The event, hosted by the general manager and officials, drew the town’s leaders, Welland’s mayor, and company managers. Certificates from doctors confirmed 12 minor incidents, but no employee needed time off.
The Guelph Presbytery gathered in St Andrews Church last Tuesday with 25 ministers and elders present. They discussed the budget, home missions, and fund rates for 1926, nominated Rev Dr MacGillivray for moderator of the next assembly, and sent encouragement letters to theponer ontulon at Wotarina and Rockwood.
The text presents a jumble of riddles and jokes about language and letters, with garbled spellings and broken phrases. It resembles a stray comic or puzzle column specimen with questions about differences between homophones, dangerous sleep aboard trains, animal comparisons, and letter B humor, all poorly legible.
The Acton Gazette notes five funeral services at Acton Parish Church, visits by John Duxbury and Ald W. G. Porrig, a fine for speeding at Acton Police Court, and social gatherings from New Year events. It mentions Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild’s £33 donation to All Saints, South Acton, and plans for the Acton General Hospital mortuary. The piece also covers church schedules, local court sentences for drunkenness and blocking a tram, and community groups like Acton Baptist Guild and the Crystal Palace Festival Choir.
An old advertisement extols McCoy's Cod Liver Extract Tablets claiming they build strength and appetite in frail children. It cites examples of a 9yearold who gained 12 pounds in seven months and a thin woman who gained 20 pounds in 34 days, promoting the product as inexpensive and widely available.
The Acton General Hospital's outpatients program hosted a Friday afternoon gathering for the children under care. Lt.-Col. D. Swort served as secretary and a Neuro as a popular guest, while W. G. Bowhoer noted A. Fraser as W. M. of Acton Lodge Freemasons. A family coincidence links former and current lodge masters, H. J. Bowhoer and Mr. Treanor.
The Hayden brothers own a threshing outfit. After the machine was moved for a test run, a remarkable hen remained on her nest as belts, fans and drums operated. She endured the noise and dust, staying aboard to hatch eggs with one egg damaged but all others safe.
A visiting woman in Philadelphia grows curious stares and whispers from Curran family neighbors. After asking Mrs Curran about her work the reply reveals the visitor is the dressmaker, concluding the matter with a quiet indifference.
A college professor disciplines a student for gum chewing and feet in the aisle. The excerpt then praises a portable oil product, Dr Thomas Eclectric, claiming its powers impress people and that its potency remains unimpaired despite portability and transport.
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