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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
2
A lyrical verse celebrates seasonal beauty with birds, meadows, and fields. It evokes May warmth, hayrides, fruiting orchards, and a lively march into autumn with nature’s sounds and colors. The piece invites leaving city tolls for pastoral refreshment and enduring dreams.
A Montana school inspector describes Crazy Mountain’s one room schoolhouse with a leaky roof, bare floors, few windows, and improvised seating. Despite hardship, teacher and nine students crafted wildflower exhibits that won a state fair prize and drew praise from a local merchant.
The speaker recalls a neighbor of twenty years who waved hello each day as he traveled the road. They shared simple exchanges, saying Howdy and Hello through sun, rain, or snow. The narrator notes the neighborly bond remains steady over time as life goes on. James W. Foley.
A long obituary recalls Dr Mott Forster of Toronto, the oldest Acton physician, who died at 486 Ossington Avenue after a long career. He is praised as upright, friendly, and deeply concerned with moral issues and his patients, a man whose company was valued by friends.
William J Hartry notes ornamental grasses such as M senensis and Zebrinaes produce a striking display in gardens and borders. They grow rapidly, develop plume-like spikes by autumn, can be dried for decoration, and require cutting back in November with generous mulching around the base. References include the Normal School grounds in London Ontario and Miss Mary Havell’s grounds in Walkerton Ontario.
A young lawyer defends a man charged with housebreaking by claiming the arm acted independently. The judge sentences the arm one year, noting the prisoner may accompany it. The man then removes his cork arm and walks away.
A Scotchman sought the judge of his fate by telegraph proposing marriage after a full day at the telegraph office. The operator warned him to think twice before marrying the girl that kept him waiting, and the man replied with a sharp comeback about waiting for the night.
A fragmented quotation describes a boastful moment with a self-mavoring line about being a little deaf. The scene highlights a dish of crisp brown doughnuts as the focal object and the speaker, referred to as a “gold Grand sire Mabbiet,” delivering a stream of garbled speech.
The note sketches a straight line dress with flare, satin trim and embroidery, detailing yardage and buttons. It then shifts to a personal reminiscence about the Cadets of Temperance and a call for organization to resist temperance modernism.
An old tale from Dr. A. H. Quint recounts a village church split over a quarrel that divided families for decades. A young preacher restored peace, but later a joke revived old tensions until reconciliation finally returned with outside wisdom. The piece argues true forgiveness requires erasing bitterness entirely.
Admiral Robley Evans recounts a visit to Japan where he was welcomed at court by the empress. He notes the formal ritual differed from his own expectations, describes a hand shake with the empress, and praises her refinement and delicate appearance. He attributes some customs to tailors avoiding direct contact with royalty.
Acton social life continues with the East Acton Musical and Dramatic Society’s activity, a sewing machine purchase for Acton Derwentwater School, and fundraisers including a whist drive. A deputy coroner’s inquiry into John Coleman’s death and local crime penalties are reported along with lectures, concerts, scouts camping, and a push for permanent allotments.
A fragmentary report attributes a cautionary tale to Dr. C W Baleby, noting a sleepless patient who fears even a cat on a fence. The doctor prescribes a powder but declares the remedy is a soporific draught, not to be taken as a cure.
G P Microstle, Dominion Agrologist, notes sweet clover shifted from a weed to a valued forage plant. It thrives on poor soils, stores nitrogen, and offers pasture, but has bitter taste, unpalatability to cattle until acclimated, and challenges in curing hay. It can seed itself and reduce alfalfa seed value. It suits as a temporary pasture and, in western Canada, a hay crop with limited silage use.
The article traces the Hellespont and Dardanelles name origins from Helle and Dardanus, recalls Jason and the Argonauts, Troy, Priam, and Agamemnon, and notes historical crossings by Xerxes and the Black Sea reference by Xenophon, ending with the English and French view after leaving the Dardanelles forts.
A curious stranger at a summer hotel porch claims boastful moves by two rival armies. He recounts taking outcena units, eight men, transport wagons, and a big gun, then reveals he is a photographer in a playful war tale.
The article notes the forty f ith anniversary of the Com AY formed to provide local telephone service and highlights Bell Telephone by products. Accompanying photographs show an artificial larynx as a triumph of science over surgery, illustrating removal of cancerous tissue from the throat region.
A fragment recounts the parable of seed sown among handbills and dodgers then gathered by a street clearer, while some seed fell into newspapers and reached households, yielding fruit in varying measures of thirty to one hundred fold.
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