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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
1
A long, uneven 1890s-era piece interweaves a fable about honesty and honeyed words with a travelogue of family scenes, local events, and moral lessons. It shifts from a sermon on persuasion to childhood memories, farm life, and small-town notices, ending with a Christian reflection on sacrifice and duty.
An account of soldiers under fire seeking refuge in a garret after a failed escape from a town taken by German forces. They hold a last church parade with Twenty Third Psalm reading as soldiers listen, then a door opens and a German bootsteps away. many escape, doubtless the unit has sung the Psalm before. The piece shifts to a meditation on war costs, listing a billion dollars as a modern measure and reflecting on charity and kindness amid hardship.
An elderly circuit rider Elder Eddy visits a struggling rural community amid a tale of debt and desire. A physician’s deathbed request binds friend and healer as the town watches the elderly man prepare to die and the village contends with mortgage burdens and aspirations.
In a drought of illness and hardship in Johnny-Cake Hollow a physician battles diphtheria and community sorrow. A Christmas-like crowd gathers, gifts arrive, and the doctor reflects on duty as a long siege of illness tests his resolve and care. The tale blends quiet courage with a village’s intertwined hopes and losses.
A Methodist study reports on a campaign linking moderate alcohol use to worker efficiency across Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois and West Virginia. Major firms including Youngstown Sheet and Tube Reading Iron and Pennsylvania Steel ban alcohol at work citing tests showing even small amounts impair performance.
A ballad like tale unfolds in a village church as a grieving pastor prays over a dying baby. The scene reveals a haunted clock, a mother's sorrow, and a looming doubt about faith and comfort as dawn breaks. The pastor whispers a plea for divine will to be done, echoing through a prayerful, sorrowful morning.
A reminiscence about a prosperous lawyer who advises broad study beyond law to succeed, then shifts to advertise patent remedies. It links ambition with politics and ends promoting Kellogg's Asthma Remedy and Milava Worm Powders as universal cures, citing children’s worm exposure and infant health.
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