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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
5
In a lyrical scene narrated by Nancy Byrd Turner, a young girl labeled Next-to-the-Oldest recalls her place among siblings. A car ride offers comfort and curiosity as the family travels, the sky bright, and the world seeming just right for a middle child.
Twenty years ago in the Free Prose issue from May 25 1899 Premier Hobson presented a bouquet at a political meeting. Locals report a brick house sale on Church Street for 3600 and discuss potato bugs versus cold winters. AMP David Henderson urges recall of twenty cent silver coins as nuisance. Esqueslag Township Sunday School convention held at Mansowood. Marriages include Button Orr at Acton with Mark Sutton to Kate Orr. Archibald Campbell dies in Acton at 88.
A whimsical tale links Bechamel the sauce maker to a French marquis and his wife, lovers of good cooking who celebrate fifty years of marriage with a prized Constance wine. A dramatic moment at the feast leads to a death rattle that turns out to be a nap, as the Marquis sleeps and awakens to live on.
A herbal list classifies fruits by effects including laxatives such as Oranea and figs and astringents like cranberries and wild cherries. It cites diuretics and refrigerants among grapes peaches currants and apples and promotes Worm Powders as a trusted remedy for worms and restoring health in children.
Obituary tribute to Anson Buck born 1833 Palermo Ontario who served 24 years on Halton County Council and 24 years Trafalgar Township Council. Doctor led public welfare temperance work, attended by friends, family, and officials at his Palermo homestead funeral and long civic career.
A fragmented children’s dialogue recalls family speech about Willie and tapping machines. The scene shows a mother and father scolding Willie, with playful wordplay on "Wille-Paw" and "Paw-They." The piece reads like a domestic comic fragment.
An odd 19th century style fragment cites Uelimidltz and Graham Lusk on a twentieth birthday. It discusses scientific temperament, deliberate action, and distinguishing what is worth pursuing, with a digression on child health and a worm-destroying remedy attributed to Mother Graven.
A writer urges adding a cooperative bakery to dairy creameries to let farmers take bread home or receive it from the cream wagon. The plan promises to save labor, attract farm daughters, and improve economics, proposing baking capacity to serve a creamery and similar machinery costs.
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