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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 16, 1935
Page
2
The Acton Free Press lists yearly subscription rates in advance and single-copy prices. Advertising charges apply per line with varying rates for large notices and notices qualifying as coming attractions, with terms on errors and remittance methods.
Officials announce a new rule allowing mothers with one child to receive the pension allowance. The measure, hailed as a promised reform, eases the burden when older siblings reach sixteen and lack earnings or home support. The change is widely approved.
In March thirty-one deaths from motor accidents and 522 fatally injured over eleven months mark a troubling trend versus the prior eleven months. Most crashes occur in towns and rural roads, with city and King's Highway increases only slight. The Toronto Star cites unsafe secondhand cars and weak brakes and urges stricter vehicle checks, harsher penalties for reckless driving, and stronger public awareness as the Department of Highways launches highway safety ads.
A North Bay Nugget feature collects reader views on improving towns. T. J. Patton endorses adopting the Fort Worth Creed as personal conduct policy guiding citizenship and civic service. He argues internal criticism is preferable and urges voting, jury duty, home buying, and daily betterment for community progress.
The Free Press editor reads a chain letter from Waynesboro Tennessee promoting a Prosperity Club in God We Trust. The piece blasts chain letters as fake and dangerous and urges readers to discard them, calling for the dead letter office or wastebasket, noting gullible friends and crowded ground floors.
Editorial notes discuss the local baseball openers and activity, March mining output in Ontario valued at 5 801 080 with 168 769 ounces gold and 25 031 ounces silver, spread of new post offices, and election timing. It notes April Canada construction contracts total 11 370 400 vs 8 499 000 in March and comments on local civic topics and a drunk driving incident involving a former hockey player.
A devotional study explains Jesus giving all authority to the Son and instructing believers to go into all the world to make disciples and baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. It urges total obedience, teaching to observe all Christ commanded.
New Zealanders are described as athletic and barefooted in childhood with wider feet than Canadians. Frequent rains keep the climate damp and influence shoe choice toward heavier soles. English patterns predominate and a market is seen for Canadian shoes of character and construction.
A reader asks about striking smaller persons and suggests asking a teacher for guidance while a separate ad touts Dr Thomas Eclecisb’s remedy. The piece reflects period views on discipline and medical patent medicines claiming internal and external relief for throat and bronchial ailments.
The passage explains that Ysrael could not be the subject and that anyone can begin with Scripture to preach Jesus as the central theme. The treasurer accepts the truth, seeks baptism, and, once baptized, the Spirit removes Philip, signaling completion of the mission.
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