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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1945
Page
7
A reflective 19th century style meditation on integrity and courage. The speaker urges living with a clean conscience, accepting life's blows, resisting flattery, and pursuing fair effort. It extols steadfast virtue, bravery, loyalty, and self control as pathways to true success.
A 1925 Acton page notes James Snyder sighting a northbound goose flock of 40 to 50 on Monday night. Acton Ladies Base Ball Club held a concert at Georgetown with the Ladies Hockey Club, while Band Minstrel Show audiences enjoyed strong performances. Inter lector was G A Dilla with end men Marty O Shea and Tarry Rigby. Acton Boy Scouts count 79 members under scout master FoF Fergis, with Rev A C Stewart, Leste Martin, and Thomas Mochrie as assistants. MarrI Green coon married Laura Gertrude, daughter of Taiah Coon of Guelph, at Acton Methodist Parsonage, on March Ith 1925.
Mrs Jo Cardy former CWAC warrant officer advocates regular fortyeight weekends for housewives and occasional breaks for husbands as a way to ease civilian life after service She stresses reconnecting with others pursuing new interests and writing letters while her husband Capt James Cardy serves overseas.
In Belleville Ontario a street incident circulates as a bystander group of girls is involved when a dropped handkerchief causes a moment of misdirection. The event highlights a mix up about who let go the item and who failed to pick it up.
The lesson discusses Jesus entering Jerusalem as the Son of David fulfilling prophecy, the crowd’s praise, and the cleansing of the temple. It contrasts zeal and faith with the fickleness of modern professed Christians and notes the priests’ envy and opposition.
A collage of comic exchanges and snippets from a chaotic day. Prison escape chatter, marital banter, a haunted cafe scene, and quips from an insane asylum test the patience of authorities. Local figures and rooms mingle with jokes about love and faith in a brisk, satirical tone.
The article notes gardening lore from the Troquais Indians as dreaming of spring planting and distant journeys. K F Kidd of the Royal Ontario Museum discusses masks made from corn husks used in spring ceremonies and a possible gardening fad inspired by these traditions.
A devotional passage notes Jesus pleased with AB and warns that God resists the proud. It cites Ps 8 2 and Rev 5 9 to show divine independence from talented yet self sufficient people. Praises to God are urged for honoring divine perspective on pride.
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