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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Jul 23, 1931

Page

5

Acton and District Hart Injury After Gravel Turnover

Acton area residents report a car owned by Charles Lewington struck loose gravel and overturned north of Buoyside while returning from a ball game. Arthur Lewington and Harry Eaves, both of Milton, were injured. The scene involved a Sunday return trip and accompanying notices of visiting friends and relatives in Milton and nearby towns.

Hart Arthur Lewington Harry Eaves Milton Charles Lewington Buoyside Bertrand Conover Conover Erindale Mra Ernest Woods Mary Aon Wealey Alma Robert Bennett

Annual flowers for outdoor beds and borders

Annual flowers are useful in any garden for quick bloom and fill. The piece advises choosing late blooming varieties to fill spaces after bulbs and to sow in beds or borders with fine soil, either transplanted or sown directly where they will flower. It lists several worthy annuals with notes on color and use in borders and cutting beds.

Dimorphotheca Larkspur Phiox Drummond Ysabel Preston Central Experimental Farm Ottawa

Diagnosis Wrong Treatment Correct A Tender Scene

A dramatic fragment shows a distressed woman leaning into a hopeful embrace as a healer insists on continuing treatment. The dialogue hints hay fever as the cause, with patient vows to persevere despite tears. The tone mirrors old newspaper fiction prose.

Reading as a ladder to progress in industry

The piece argues that reading links to invention and success, citing Lord Kelvin, Maraduy, Westinghouse, and Henry Ford. It claims reading magazines and books sparked major ideas like the airbrake and Horseless Carriage. The central claim: those who do not read fall behind in rapid progress.

Lord Kelvin Pouriet Maraduy Westinghouse J Henry Ford Bouh

Impulse and the Voice Move Paris Couple to England

A Paris bound couple visit a London preacher after a church service. A voice urged the wife to seek the doctor, leading to a letter of introduction to a colonial high commissioner. The minister of education later prised the couple as a model of answered prayer. The tale ends with a warning that prayer shapes fate in surprising ways.

London Paris France England Wald Teschera Hearcely Nnlahed

Indian Legend Of Niagara Sacrifice Told In Legend

An old Indian legend describes a tribes ritual of offering a beautiful maiden by sending her in a white canoe over Niagara Falls. The chosen daughter and her father, joined by the canoe guardian, paddle toward the Falls as drums sound and the people cheer before both perish.

Pridhomme-Draper Wesley United Church Heamaville Gertrude Fstella Draper Charles D Ontario Ile Not Chantilly Wer Jong Pearl Woods Niagara Falls Ross Arrow Pred Prudhomme Groomaman Sydney J. Wilson Mijor W.W. Groves Mish Maude Wyln Mia Geo O. Groves Maniuerlts Draper Detroit Edith Draper Niagara Apposite Canora Mol

Civic Holiday Proclaimed by Acton Town Officials

In compliance with long standing custom the town declares Monday August 3 as a civic holiday. Acting Town Clerk A Mason proclaims the day and urges all citizens to observe it. Proclamation posted at the Town Hall in Acton on July 35, 109%.

A. Mason Treeve Reeve’n Town Hall Acton

Market Reports Dairy and Poultry Prices in Toronto

Wholesale notes from Toronto quotes across dairy creamery products eggs and poultry to shippers and retailers. Includes creamery product grades, churning cream ranges, live poultry helst and fatted stock values, vegetable and dressed meat quotations, hides wool grain, and current live stock prices with regional delivery notes. Entities named include Butler Creamery, Toronto Board of Trade, country shippers, and various meat and farm product terms.

Toronto Bulter— Creamery Rae Bom Honda Toronto Board of Trade Cay Totx Northern Solk WAY Byhaw Xtra Otatoes Ontario Wirunswick

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Actonlane Eee Warden and Mra. A. Mason Sundridge Mra. H. Ratcliffe J. HL. Reed Guelph Jura Bert Mowat Vineland Jennie McDougall Bar Mrn Roy R. Arnold Mira Margaret Wasage Beach Misnes Grace Lantz Edna Inton Livingstone Deden Bra ML O. Overholt Hare Wir Alex. Jeck Twin Babies Ellen @anderson Thos Statham Mar Mars John Goolt Master Jimmie Cleveland John I. Kennedy Mrs. Gordon McKay E. A. Wansbrough Charles Michsud Norman McLeod George Atkins Margretta Thos. Rumsey Harley Brignall J. H. Weed H. Banks Dorothea Saskatoon, Hak Abther Myr John Harvey Qtr Mra. Wm. Malnprise Mable Warry Malaprise Wingham Mrs. Allcock Mea June Allcock Mrs. He. Smethurat The Crescent Aja Cook Aurora FE. ¥. Vincent Little Aisne Florence Hames Landsborough Lake Avenue Ernest Statham Stanley Statham Hrantford Thes Mra. G. T. Beardmore Guelph Hospital Torulls Muster Lome Roney Rev Mn. J. Cordwell Walnutted J. Mr. Mell Messrs Well and Charles Hall N.Y. Garden Thomson and Port Credit Mira Mr. Chay Wynde Masters Macpherson Donald Mac” Ta George Wupp Marjorie Jupp Ray Num- Tey Yoronto Thos. Ruimley W. Bro. W EK. Daly W. ML Bros. Chas Clara ‘Lantx Tie -Cuolph General Hospital Mir Jeck Anderson Mies Cannington George Edwards wMius Bhitley Edwarts Will Acton and District J. ¥. E. Terry Joan Merilyn Brantford Richard Leavens Charles Leavens Violet Marguerite Leavens Welland Relaved Trlenda Montana Prairies Canada United States Canadian National Park Walnowright Alberta Northwest Territories Wainwright Elk Inland Park Wood Buffalo Park Pire Plasa Lodge Chicory Inn Clarkson Joe Bush Residentia Jack Cronk Sweatheart Norval Garden Party AQT UK Boor T. GL. Kennedy Mawillan Orchestra Roefall Trade Bauker Tait Optical CO Wyndham Street William Boyd Pete and Repent Fox Newnan Richard Dix Marion Davies Pinger TIS Establishment Glasser A.D. Savage R. D Guelyh Lee Patterson's Meat Shop EK Deliver P Prom Fancy Box McCormick Th. Lipton Ibe Nelson & CO. Mill Macdonald’s D. E. Macdonald & Bros., ‘Ltd Ontari
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