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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
4
Acton Free Press 1918 describes grasshoppers joining a croquet game on the lawn. The insects refuse grains and balls, opting to hop through wickets and race a lead, with a playful jump sending one leader into the home stake. Johnny and Yeas join the scene as the tiny players continue their hop through the game.
The article argues that trading names shape fish use in markets with 660 species in Canadian waters. It cites dogfish renamed grayfish to boost demand, notes many canned sardines are small herrings, and suggests new attractive names could raise consumer interest. It also mentions popular fish like salmon and halibut influence buying, and promotes rebranding under better names. It ends with a brief medical ad for Kellogg's asthma remedy.
A collage of aphorisms and misquotes praising goodness, wisdom, and moral truth. Notable lines reference candlelight deeds and tempering one’s mind to circumstances while stressing honesty as natural beauty. Attribution is garbled with misspellings and invented names.
A fragmentary 19th century advertisement and moral lecture extol a Castoria remedy for children while warning about fires. It links energy and enterprise to wealth, cites a famous insurance lesson, and urges vigilance in wiring, matches, and waste reduction with quotes from moral tales and a whistle-stop exhortation to readers.
A fragmented piece urges cultivating individuality over conformity and praises a product called Parma- Jean Vegetable Pills as portable and popular. It touts the pills as accurately compounded with ingredients proven effective for regulating the digestive system and claims no other medicine can match them.
In June 1867 Sandham notes public meetings to plan a New Dominion inauguration. July first saw Canada’s new holiday celebrated with decorations, a grand review at Logans Farm, a lacrosse match, fireworks, and a $1000 corporate grant. Visitors arrived from the countryside. overall, the festivities were satisfactory.
On the islands of Ro and Olecron near La Hochehe France lie the smallest farms in the world. Some measure one to two square yards yet host a variety of crops including vineyards. The extremely fertile soil and repeated subdivision among heirs on densely populated islands explain these Liliputian properties.
A letter from Joseph H. Dodson, of Inala, discusses pear harvests and birdhouses. He notes eight bushels of pears with no worm holes, claims the tree has never been sprayed, and describes a thriving bird colony including martins, bluebirds, wrens, and several others occupying his houses.
A garbled excerpt shows Canon Cureton preparing to preach at the Abbey with Westminster School boys present. The text hints at a boy named Jimmy asking about sermon length, fearing potential punishment if it exceeds about twenty minutes.
A fragmented reminiscence contrasts corny cures with fewer trains and the plight of soldiers. It recalls box cars used by French troops described as roomy and rustic, with travelers squeezed into “side-door Pullmans” marked for forty men or eight horses.
A fragmented editorial questions Prohibition effects asking why dry states stay dry if Prohibition was sound why some oppose alcohol use by workers and soldiers and why laws ban beer bars for women and girls. It argues safety zones protect soldiers from drink but not civilians. questions temperance policy.
The text claims one in three people have catarrh and that nasal catarrh signals general weakness. It promotes Scott's Vision oil-food as a drug-free building tonic to enrich the blood, advising readers to try it, with a Toronto address suggesting sales.
A reflective piece argues rules remain fixed like gravity and breaking them harms the record. It urges aligning daily conduct with God’s law to avoid regrets, stressing a life lived in harmony with love and order avoids heartache and prepares for success.
A jumble of pulled quotes and ad style lines mentions worm powder availability at chemists and drug shops, a political voting remark by a wife about her influential husband, and a light child joke about pigs with legs, all from unclear newspaper trim.
The fragment lists quantities for butter sugar and other ingredients and praises Dr Thomas Electric Orbit as a cheap, widely available health remedy sold in drug stores across Canada and country merchants. The text emphasizes affordability and accessibility and urges readers to acquire a bottle.
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