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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1931
Page
7
A playful verse riffs on winter’s chill and warm attire with animal motifs. The speaker imagines enduring cold like a walrus and raccoon while preferring fur and spruce for comfort. The tone is humorous and lightly satirical about winter hardships.
Snow melted fast this week and wild geese headed north. Wheat prospects look good. sleighing ends and logs await sawing. Mr. Wallace to move to Knox Avenue. Mr. Brown exits dairy. Acton Choral Society concert tops the season with Ghildrick conducting. A Detroit News item notes genealogical curiosity on a Jefferson Avenue car. Persuading cosmetic ad for Persian Walnut.
Exposition contrasts Martha and Mary at Jesus feet versus service. Mary seeks learning and communion, while Martha frets over duties. Jesus gently rebukes busyness, urging focus on the one needful thing. Pharisees exposed for outward purity masking inner uncleanness and desire for prominence.
Caleb Pouslee recalls temper flare over tomato plants and a fence toss. Clem Walls adds drama as Parlin shows off prized tomato starts, leading to a neighborly reconciliation and a warning to count not words but steps when anger rises.
A fragment reflecting on Jesus words about the Pharisees from Matthew 23 3 35 notes the differences between occasions and warns that people today seek to trap him in his words. It mentions repeated scholarly examination and attempts to catch wind of his meaning across generations.
Ragged dated notes recount daily snippets about Slats and a Drvish figure, with Thursday through Sunday entries showing bouts of loneliness and misfortune. A closing line promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a remedy for worms, reflecting period ad copy style.
A magazine excerpt recounts Rev H W Pierson noting a persistent county office seeker who campaigned twelve years straight. The speaker laments slow encouragement but finds hope as votes surge, vowing to run again if defeated and eventually realizing the long dream some years later.
A garbled court report shows a judge asking if a defendant ever faced trouble before and prisoners replying with a mangled phrase about a lengthy wharf book. The text indicates a small fine of ten cents was imposed.
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