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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
4
A fragment from a wartime era lyric notes women voters and the state. The verse mentions Mary and John Harleycorn with playful imagery reflecting votes and returns.
The military hospital commission at Quebec reports statistics on Canadian troops in the war. It cites 29 chances of returning home for each fatality, higher survival and recovery odds, and that one in 60 for a lost limb. It notes five years of life gained with physical training, better army care, and lower disease death rates than civilian life. It also says only 10 percent of disabled Canadians cannot work, with government reeducation programs. The piece warns war remains dangerous but less wasteful of life than many conflicts.
A fragmented excerpt recounts a widow, described as comely and Scotch, mourning her late husband for eighteen months before choosing a suitor named MacIntyre. The dialogue hints at family and social expectations within a domestic scene, with humorous misunderstandings over names and identity.
A training themed piece urges persistent habit and wholehearted effort. It emphasizes the need for daily discipline to build concentration, enthusiasm, and steady performance, arguing long effort yields readiness for greater responsibility. It includes a playful Q and A about gozintas to illustrate learning.
A traveler leans from a train window and pays a boy with dimas to fetch a sandwich. The boy returns with one sandwich and a second dima for himself. He later gives back the dima, saying only one sandwich remained. Washington Star reports the brief incident.
In Cobham Virginia a rural store keeper Mr Bell confronts a small negro who enters seeking change for an egg. The exchange includes misheard dialogue about needing two needles and change in chocolate. A fragment ends with a claim Canadians are slow to read regional records.
The fragmentary text mixes a gossip like critique of a Swedish malt with slang dialogue about a youth and a punch. It then shifts to a medical claim praising Parmaleg's Vegetable Pills as a remedy for digestive trouble and bile secretion, in a style typical of dubious patent medicine ads.
A brief, quirky exchange features an elderly woman asking about eggs and a wounded Tommy replying with a humorous malapropism about “gholls” while mentioning “Dienty.” The snippet captures a wartime or rural humor tone with character dialogue.
A Toronto Star quotation argues daylight saving should be named daylight gaming to emphasize gains. The correspondent notes daylight has always existed but people fail to use it, suggesting a trade of one darkness hour for an extra daylight hour benefits both workers and sleepers.
A man leaving his chair in a crowded dining car returns to discover a dead woman in his seat. He protests, but the woman declares she is a director. the man coolly replies the directors want him to keep quiet. An unrelated ad promotes Dr Thomas Electric Oil for camp uses and for treating injuries.
A damaged line from The Baltimore American shows a fatherly rebuke about a daughter returning items to a young man, with fragmentary dialogue capturing a tense family exchange. The snippet hints at social norms and parental control in a historical context.
The dispatch covers shipbuilding resuming in Vancouver with retroactive wage dates, Trinity Church in Kitchener hosting Harmitton Methods conference, Captain Elisa Cappy’s death in Cobourg, Sir John Olban’s return from France praising Red Cross work, Militia recruiting in Winnipeg District No 10, possible conscription enforcement, a Kinogama foreman assaulted on a troop train, the New York Times Pulitzer medal award, and plans to expand Laurentian Sanitarium in Ottawa and Montreal to aid soldiers’ rehabilitation.
An aged advertisement fragment promotes Fletcher's Castoria as a pleasant medicine for children and a worm exterminator for driving worms from the system.
In a New York item a chauffeur named Jinky explains the boss fined for taking out his employer’s car without permission. The remark raises questions how the boss learned the vehicle was driven and ran over.
A damaged text fragment mentions a Ser and a person who waven and a woman pausing for reflection before a mirror. The reading is incomplete and lacks clear news content or events.
An Army map warns that every gallon of gasoline used for pleasure cars reduces fuel for motor trucks and ambulances in the front. With 3,000,000 leisure vehicles, casual trips lessen the war supply and raise government costs, urging short trips to conserve fuel for military needs.
The tramp begs at a farmer’s door asking for a meal. The exchange turns to faith as the farmer notes worn knees and the tramp explains the back holes were from back-baling. The farmer’s wife provides food and the tramp leaves.
An old advertisement extols Fletcher's Castoria as the best asthma remedy with claims of consistent quality and trusted by sufferers over the years. It urges readers not to endure attacks and to obtain the remedy today.
The article argues most youth delay philanthropy for pleasure and ease, noting many plan generous deeds only after wealth. It warns early habits determine future character, showing how self indulgence or neglect today shapes the giver’s fate and the race’s welfare.
A reflection on choosing to do merely enough to pass rather than pursuing full progress. The author urges developing powers and demanding the utmost from oneself to satisfy personal standards rather than external expectations.
A Canton Ohio woman details severe female troubles and a suggested operation but credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with avoiding surgery. The letter urges other women to try the tonic before any operation and invites correspondence with Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lyne Mass.
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