This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
3
A reflective verse piece from the Acton Free Presa contemplates learning and memory. The narrator recalls solving a long problem about mowing hay, the dread and thrill of finding the answer, and the joy of mastery as a personal measure. The poem hints at education, persistence, and the reward of knowledge.
Meta Rolfe, aged eighteen, earns Levi Grove’s trust as his store faces ruin after a mill burns. She defers to community needs by extending credits and curbing orders while a new plant is planned. Herbert Grove, revealed as the nephew, returns to help and reform the town’s fortunes.
A local writer urges Acton to revive or form a Board of Trade to spur public enterprise and business backing. He recalls past activity, notes wartime shifts, and shares memories of Mill and John Street blocks, including the Wonderland cinema and early town figures.
A scientist outlines estimates of the human race and global distribution. He cites about 1.45 billion people, with dense populations in Asia and Europe, and wide variation in living conditions from clothes to homes and huts.
The passage describes a colossal whirlpool at the junction of the Inambar and Madre de Dios rivers in Peru. The Inambari’s stronger current cuts across Madre de Dios, creating a vast circular swirl about 200 yards wide, with a central hole at least six feet below the rim, fed by a river with depths near thirty feet and six knots of flow.
A quotation from Marjory MacMurchy urges greater female individuality and leadership. It highlights past Canadian examples Abigail Becker and others and calls for practical, concrete steps over mere talk to advance women’s roles in work, franchise rights, and societal improvement. The tone favors active citizenship and measurable progress.
A reader notes that if Mr Jinks, who sat for Mudville in 19 4, consents to stand again he would likely have a walk over. The exchange arises from a misread English newspaper title.
During a noon break on a constricted building, a bricklayer shared a travel ticket to England with a poor widow whose husband had recently died. He handed her the ticket after a quiet exchange, offering help and a hopeful future home far away.
Two teams compete in a timed peanut relay. Partners choose teammates, move to a peanut table, grab knives, and transfer peanuts by knife blade to the opposite end. Three minutes of play, tally kept, and the pair with the most peanuts wins a prize.
Timely use of time is precious and prudent conduct is urged. Emphasizes looking people in the face, being sociable without waste, yielding sparingly to gain victories, avoiding overreaching ambition, resisting pride and timidity misread as folly, using wit carefully, and preferring self mastery to dominating others. Also warns against indirect talk and urges modesty and self-control.
A French town holds a yearly pony race funded by a wealthy tradesman’s will from forty two years ago. The prize of 2000 francs goes to the rider who wears deep mourning for two years after the race, regardless of gender, as part of the eccentric bequest accepted by the municipality.
A fragment from a 19th century voice laments excess and scarcity. It notes soldiers hungry after long guard duties and argues happiness often follows need rather than abundance, suggesting the present generation drinks with too much wealth.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.