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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
2
A fragment from the Acton Free Press discusses handling errors in advertisements and their impact on public notice. It notes corrections must affect the entire ad space and mentions a policy outlined by editor Arlof Dills.
The Ontario Budget reports a surplus smaller than last year with direct taxpayer relief. Premier Hepburn pledges no tax increases for the coming year while succession duties remain a revenue source. The budget hints at larger grants for secondary schools to offset county cutbacks.
The Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association CWNA toured Prime Minister King and three senior ministers in Ottawa last week without asking favors. President George James of the Bowmanville Canadian Statesman led a delegation urging more regular government information for local papers. The meeting broke with usual delegations and prompted calls for broader government transparency and cooperation.
A sixty year old couple in Toronto were arrested for selling beer illegally to an eleven year old girl. Last week two men received jail terms for supplying liquor to a fourteen year old boy. The writer questions public policy on youth access to alcohol and its broader social costs.
The reminiscence recalls the old Town Hall medicine troupe that toured yearly with music acts and a talk on worms. It notes the show was funded by a patent medicine line and free admission, replaced by modern radio and paid at home by a one hundred dollar setup and annual two fifty fee, offering choice but no escape from payment.
The piece reflects on local concerns like water on Mill Street and wind blown sand, notes the absence of fear-filled rhetoric from European centers, and mentions the potential YMCA value for towns of Acton’s size. It reviews Tommy Church’s newspaper ownership bill passage, Burlington Gazette’s 40th anniversary, and cites the Financial Post on R. B. Bennett’s Conservative leadership resignation and the resulting leadership vacuum.
Daily entries recount Slats observations in class and at home. He describes lessons on misnomers and questions about angels, gender beauty standards, and a clock project. The child jokes about chores, a teacher’s questions, and a garden day with weather noted.
Mr J H Choate once United States Ambassador to England authored a renowned compliment to wives. When asked whom he would be if not himself he replied Mrs Choate's second husband, delivering a sharp humorous line.
The excerpt argues that the law of Moses is the inerrant Word of God, citing Matthew 5 and John 10 as supports and noting a contemporary challenge to this view. It highlights a choice between belief and skepticism and references First Thessalonians 2013 as part of the discussion.
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