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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1928
Page
3
Hon. George S. Henry, Minister of Highways, denounces spotlight and one light driving in a stirring legislature speech. He introduces a bill to curb risky driving, pledging strict penalties for careless or foolhardy violations as municipal police enforce the Highway Traffic Act across the province.
The editor looks back on one year in charge of The Free Press noting mistakes, lessons learned, and gratitude for readers, advertisers, staff, and former partner H P Moore. The piece emphasizes loyalty, perseverance, and continuing guidance as the paper moves forward.
Last Thursday evening representatives from Bell Telephone Co met with local bodies in Well Town to discuss service improvements. Officials addressed criticisms openly, inviting constructive feedback while stressing a real desire to provide better community service and transparent action on tree trimming and line maintenance.
The piece argues daily struggles of parents with limited means to educate children and widows supporting offspring, noting many lives in health care and hardship. It calls for measured praise for meritorious courage that sustains the nation, not inflated tributes to public figures.
Two of the continent's wealthiest men made nightly reading a long term habit. They read for one hour before bed to exercise their minds beyond business. They value culture, instruction, and music as essential to education and a successful career.
The Walkerton government liquor shop faced mixed reactions as local coverage shifted from triumphant to critical. A previous Herald-Times article praised the opening, while last week’s issue reported a troubling Saturday night incident and urged investigation, questioning government control and permit enforcement.
The Quebec Safety League urges amending the Criminal Code to require imprisonment for any driver who flees an accident scene. It condemns fledgling evasion and argues a six month penalty would deter reckless driving and ensure accountability.
1927 reports show Canada produced 19 517 214 pairs of boots and footwear in 179 factories. Brewers win price wars with Manitoba Liquor Commission prompting calls for stronger governance. Spring brings fashionable demonstrator autos, boosting car business. Liquor Control Act updates require label details. temperance sentiment jests at warnings. Ontario mineral output valued around 90 million with gold currency rising to 33.7 million. gold, nickel, cobalt lead metals, while arsenic gypsum and salt top nonmetal outputs. Acton England budget hints a 1 penny rate cut for 1928. Acton Ontario 1924 hoped. Pacific ports record grain receipts this crop year. by Feb 24 arrivals reached 57.427 million bushels and 51.16 million shipped. Canada benefits from robust Atlantic and Pacific coast shipping for agriculture and other products.
The article urges safe milk supply from healthy cows to prevent bovine tuberculosis in children. It stresses pasteurized, clean, refrigerated milk and warns about parasites delaying development. It promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a remedy for stomach worms and invites questions to the Canadian Medical Association.
Reorganized Whee Cats events and local happenings on Lake Avenue and Church Street. Bricks for Mrs. W White’s new house on Lake Avenue. Sprowson and Thompson to build bank barns. Mr Cripps moving to Georgetown sold Church Street home. W D Anderton contracts brick-veneered house on Bower Avenue. Mackenzie tore down Dr Bell’s barn on Frederick Street. Millinery openings progress this week. H Birmingham promoted to West End Montreal branch. K E Lawson succeeds. Young People’s social at Knox Church featured recitations dialogues sales and a quartette with refreshments. Holloway’s Com Remover advertised.
A London hostess recalls a dinner party mix up from Memories of Fifty Years. An uninvited foreign guest, unable to speak English, stays for most of the evening, entertaining with pantomime. He later turns out to be a well educated Budapest gentleman who sends Christmas cards for years.
Magnesia is recommended as a stomach aid after meals. The text touts magnesia tablets taken with little water to soothe stomach discomfort, improve digestion, and ease eating by reducing sour fermentation and discomfort. It presents magnesia as a preferred remedy over other antacids or patent foods.
Summary of a Sunday School study on Mark's Gospel noting its author likely John Mark, audience Gentile, and aims to introduce Jesus' historic personality. It covers Mark's concise yet detailed narrative, reliance on Peter's teaching, and its distinction from Matthew and Luke. Includes questions on Mark's place among the Gospels and his connection to Peter.
A humorous Edinburgh tale recounts a sheriff who loses a two penny railway ticket and is asked to pay again. When pressed, he offers a face to the cash-larker and quips that a countenance can resemble a man capable of lying for a tuppence, prompting the clerk to thank him for the penny.
An advertisement warns that bladder weakness causes misery and nightly disruptions and lists headaches and nervous restlessness as accompanying signs. It promotes SYROL Tablets from a world known druggist with a money back guarantee if no relief within two weeks, claiming Byrd Tablets may work within 40 hours.
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