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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 09, 1927
Page
6
Fragmentary text from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page shows garbled moral exhortations and terse obituary language. The legible bits reference leadership, readers, andFarewell themes, with distorted phrases about world change and virtue.
The Acton area reports construction on Tarnwell's brick house and John Stone Block brickwork starting Monday. A youth football game with Rocky at Hiora last Wednesday ended after two quarters. a home game vs Light is slated Saturday. Parade plans from Town Mall to the Park led by Acton Citizens Hand. Soldiers Captain Whirs 8, Gamble and company left for Camp Niagara for twelve days of instruction. Agricultural, municipal, and marriage notices fill the column, including Atkinson-Brown and Livingstone-Soper weddings, and death of Mina Isabel Graham aged various years.
A fragmentary newspaper snippet blends a witty widow scene with a sales pitch for Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy. It also recounts Sir George Napier’s dog anecdote about left and right-handed bread delivery and ends with a claim for Dr. Thomas' Be tonic healing powers.
An accidental discharge injured a keeper in Mahwenburg during a loading of a gun. The right hand was amputated after immediate medical response. Lord Staglan, present, showed composure despite the peril. An advertisement promotes Affler's Worm Powders claiming to improve infantile ailments and appetite.
The article outlines a Sunday lesson on Peter's imprisonment and miraculous deliverance, detailing Herod Agrippa's persecution, Peter's guard, and the jail exit. It connects early church faith in prayer to outcomes, contrasts pagan persecutions with Christian resilience, and offers study questions and next week readings.
Acton Public Library Committee, in Toronto for a book collection, presents select new titles. Durant and Lawson works feature philosophy, travel, and Canadian authors. volumes cover cooking, dieting, poetry, and fiction.
The piece notes the aral of thode titled Suet So Sterien by Kips Hoyt, to be added to the library. Stewart Wallace, head of the Department of SMatary and Librarian at Voropta University, urges young readers from twelve up to study the work. A newly bound edition will be catalogued and circulated within a week or sooner.
In a lively Acton room dialogue, residents discuss the local paper and its ads. They note the journal’s daily coverage, the reach of its advertisements, and a push for cheaper rates while joking about community life and readers’ demands.
A fragmented review outlines three types of novels from different cultures. It notes a French work about two people who pursue each other briefly then part, a Chinese tale tracing an evacuation flight, and a Russian story where two people neither desire nor reach each other across about 450 pages.
Sufferers of indigestion often try powders and tablets but seek safer relief. Magnesia provides temporary relief by neutralizing stomach acid and reducing gas, helping prevent fermentation and heaviness after meals.
A dated timetable lists eastbound and westbound trains between Toronto Terminal Wests and Acton with arrival and departure times. It notes special express freight service, daily and weekend departures, standard time usage, and the Toronto West location on Wellington Street.
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