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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
7
Folkloric obituary notes a life of hardship and faith. The message recalls a journey from cradle to gray, praising gentleness, honesty, and grace given by divine aid. It honors Pollard and the friends who shared early trials without dwelling on earthly records.
Twenty years ago The Free Press reports a Rockwood outing on the rocks, two youths fined in Fergus for motor car mischief, Rural Route mail contracts changing hands, Acton ties remembered, and local deaths and births. Flight Liput C 8 Garden dies in England. Born McDougall daughter in Toronto.
A reflection on starting happiness now and lighting a candle of cheer. Then a detailed, memory rich note locates homes along Arthur Street and Wellington Street in Acton, naming King Cooper Henry Cole Alex Donald and others, tracing ownership and resident history with family movements and local figures.
A compact history of Ontario road development from early stone paved routes to the modern highway system. It notes Louis XIV funding Lower Canada's roads, 1793 Upper Canada road acts, and Simcoe's plan to connect remote areas, framing roads as drivers of commerce and growth.
Excerpted notes on Mark 14 32 46 detailing Jesus praying in Gethsemane with Peter James and John while the others sleep. It emphasizes Jesus sorrow and longing for human sympathy, the disciples failure to watch and pray, and the call to spiritual vigilance against temptation.
Oliver N Warren’s diary entries recount a rough week with Jake lacking shoes and braces, a mother’s illness, a discussion about marriage and bankruptcy, and the narrator’s longing to grow up while enduring chores, worn hands, and fatigue. The tone is informal and fragmentary.
Fragmentary reminiscence describing families on Arthur Street Church Street Victoria Avenue and Lake Avenue in a Cleveland area district. The speaker recalls decades of changes, logging, maple sugar production, and clearing virgin forest, hinting at future trips down Bower Avenue.
A couple of dance band fans discuss salaries noting crooners earn £5000 a year, and remark the Prime Minister also makes that amount. They point out the Prime Minister cannot sing a note, highlighting irony in public figures’ pay versus talent.
The Department of Mines and Resources announces a new game preserve in the Northwest Territories covering about 70 000 square miles north of the Liard River and extending west from the Mackenzie River to the Yukon boundary. New regulations limit hunting and trapping licenses to whites already licensed or dependents of residents, with restrictions on new entrants to conserve wildlife for natives amid a weak fur season. The total native only preserves rise to about 584 000 square miles.
A terse courtroom style exchange features a prisoner named William Smith and a police inspector who challenge his claimed identity. The dialogue escalates as the suspect is pressed to reveal his true name and origins.
A seaside frequenter who swims daily wore a straw hat and explained he uses it to gauge his depth. He said when the hat floats he knows he is out of his depth.
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