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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
7
The verse questions why buyers focus on car details like cylinders, four wheel brakes, bearings, and miles per gallon while ignoring personal relationships. It contrasts standardized car design with an ironic view of love and partnership.
A 1906 snapshot notes a good hay crop and street sprinkler in action. W Hawes improves the bowling green and workers remove mill rollers for a modern chopping outfit due by August. Acton firemen prepare for Dominion Day parade and brigades. A Morocco missionary addresses Knox Church. Carnahan launches a naphtha boat on Fairy Lake, drawing patrons. Mrs Turnbull of Hamilton, WC president visits Acton Branch and speaks to Baptist schoolroom members.
A cautious male narrator outlines his ideal wife and home life. He favors natural beauty over cosmetic excess and stresses partnership, shared duties, financial independence, and emotional support. He contrasts such expectations with observations on fashion, social life, and the value of a true “helpmate.”
Sunday school text on Genesis 39 emphasizes Joseph as a model of integrity under injustice. It contrasts attitudes of bitterness with faithful service and optimism grounded in faith, urging youth to cultivate duty and resilience.
In Northern Ontario an ancestral inlet near Thunder Bay once hosted Indian rendezvous and drum echo. Today Chippewa Park featuresWarn welcome lodges camping grounds and scenic shores as Canadian Pacific ships and tourist crowds replace old war canoes and tribal gatherings.
Twenty six British youths aged 15 to 18, brought to Canada under a government settlement program, began residence at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. They will stay at the college for about a month before moving to Vimy Ridge Farm for further instruction and eventual placement on Ontario farms. Palmerston Council grants aid to the Horticultural Society and funds for the town band, while the society recently erected a fountain at the Canadian National Railway station. Hog cholera breaks out on a farm near Guelph town slip. 23 of 80 hogs are destroyed and the rest vaccinated and quarantined under veterinary supervision. A new Walt Mason ballad is highlighted, lampooning home merchants. Holloway’s Corn Remover is advertised as a remedy for coin-related ailments.
A Wyoming traveler recalls seeing prisoners in ordinary clothes laboring on a road. A tourist car stuck in mud prompts the driver to ask a nearby inmate for help. The inmate replies he has time to spare, summing up his twenty five year sentence.
The piece extols the home as society’s base and church’s extension. It shares quotes about mothers as the nation’s need, urges educated consecrated womanhood, and tells of a Berlin widow and a robber moved by religious decor. It urges making homes beautiful with flowers to bring light.
The text claims Miller's Worm Powders make the infantile system intolerant to worms and cure stomach and bowel disorders caused by worms. It asserts children improve quickly after starting the treatment, boosting appetite and vitality.
The mistress instructs a new servant Martha to bring milk on a tray. After an initial slip the servant returns with a tray and asks if she should bring a spoon or if milk should be lapped up, highlighting awkward etiquette and the servant’s eagerness to please.
In 1926 both nations faced small potato crops and US demand kept prices high. Dominion Fruit Commissioner George E. McIntosh warns farmers against greatly expanding acreage this season. He urges careful planting of better pure seed varieties to avoid overproduction and unprofitable prices, noting profit pressures from the prior year. The piece also mentions a common complaint of infestation and introduces Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as an effective remedy.
The London Daily News recalls British soldiers finding German trench notices reading Zany Un ferstand and other garbled phrases. The piece notes wartime humor amid strain and mentions asthma relief advertising by Dr. J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as a common remedy.
Mothers realize rice has healthful properties and a place in a child's diet. A fruit topped baked rice pudding offers variety and nutrition, served as main lunch or supper for children and as a fancy dessert for adults.
Specialists from the United States Department of Agriculture warn against using fatty or oily remedies for early stage poisonous exposures. They recommend simple treatments such as baking soda or Epsom salt solutions, and fluid extracts of grindelia diluted with water. Zinc oxide ointment and mild antiseptics aid healing after the toxin subsides.
In rubbing down the athlete uses Dr Thomas Eclectric a remarkable article. It renders muscles and sinews pliable relieves soreness and strengthens them for strains. It is preeminent for this purpose and athletes have long valued its lubricant properties.
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