Holiday visitors and town friends mingle in Acton notes
Acton columns list numerous visitors from Toronto London Kitchener and Windsor staying with local families over the weekend and holiday period. Names include Leslie Martin Margaret Garvin Aimee Speight Jna Lane and many more as well as travel to Guelph Hamilton and Calgary and engagements announced Dorothy Maltby and John Tolton to wed in June. Local religious and social events include church delegates to Hamilton and a Toronto ordination anniversary.
Quick forgiveness plea and a dime in the plate
A friend asks for forgiveness then changes the subject. Mark Twain’s minister tale shows how sustained pleading can tire listeners. The lesson: true repentance can fade if the request drags on and backslides into impenitence.
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Mark Twain
Mark ‘Twain
Dad Pays in Turkey for Art Education at Talas School
The article describes boys at the American School in Talas, Turkey, sleeping on hard beds and eating bread with sparing soup, earning 25 cents a day with 12 cents for food, while laborers earn 25 cents daily. Book costs 75 cents, placing students near hunger. some well dressed boys loaf through summer, yet dad pays for art education.
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Talas
Turkey
Paul E. Nilson
America
Movie magnates head for hunting expedition in Canadian Rockies
A six member Hollywood party led by Darryl Zanuck headed for bear hunting in the Canadian Rockies with guide Roy Hargreaves. The group, including Raymond Enright John Adolf and Sam Engle of Warner Brothers, will travel by the Continental Limited to Valemount British Columbia and hunt with rifles and cameras along the Columbia River. Zanuck and Adolf previously hunted in Mount Robson in 1930, collecting trophies and expanding his world wide animal trophy collection.
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Canadian Rockies
British Columbia
Hollywood
Vancouver
Continental Limited
Canadian National Railways
Darryl Zanuck
Presid
Twentieth Century Corporation
Raymond Enright
Raymond Griffith
Lloyd Bacon
John Adolf
Sam Engle
Warner Brothers
Valemount
British’ Columbia
Mount Robson
Roy Hargreaves
Rockies
Columbia
Zanuck
Enright
Adolfi
Doing Without Finds Riches Beyond Loss
The piece argues that lacking material comforts need not spoil life. Friendship, compassion, and service to others remain accessible to all, with religion transforming bitterness into joy and faith making life meaningful even when everything else is missing.
Council Affirms Cemetery By-law and Local Repairs
Council will not alter the cemetery by law while approving a parish parade with a possible silver collection. Gravel from T J O Neill’s Crewsons Corners farm may be obtained at 10c per yard for street repairs before starling material is added. A luminous sign will be replaced at Acton’s high west, billed to the motorist who broke it.
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Jones
T. J. O'Neill
Crewsons Corners
Guelph General Hospital
Acton
Wm. Landsborough
Fritz Kreisler on loving work and success in art
The article argues great artists pursue work for passion not money, citing Fritz Kreisler's idea of playing only for pleasure. It notes biographies show childhood ambition as a driver, and says enthusiasm beats mere conscientious effort. It adds that the Maritimes climate boosts potato yields in Canada.
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Fritz Kreisler
Letters to the Editor Policy and Submission Rules
The Free Press invites letters on topics of general interest from readers. Letters must be signed and may use a pen name if requested. Submissions should be under 500 words and received by Tuesday noon to appear in that week’s issue.
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The
Free Press
Alcoholism and heredity blamed for mental illness rise
Public figure Dr. Bruce warns Canada faces growing mentally challenged population linked to hereditary factors and alcohol. He cites Swiss and American records, argues parental drinking drives idiocy and feeble mindedness, and urges policy and social change to curb alcoholic ancestry.
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Ontario
H. A. Bruce
Canada
Maurice Craig
Bruce
Jukes
Max Jukes
United States
Switzerland
H.bersot
Piger
Stockard
Flores
Niclaus
Europe
Train on Time or Track Delays Prompt Grumpy Banter
A grouchy passenger asks about punctuality. The conductor quips that the goal is staying on the track. The chick rearing remark notes that success demands constant vigilance and care.
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Kitchener
Josephine Jackson
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R. H. Wansbrough
Arthur Crowley
Mrs. Earle Brown
Misse E. Haines
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John Waldie
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Robert Parkinson
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Walter Swanston
Guelph
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Bath
Women's Institute
G. H Lantz
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Edward Flynn
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G. T. Lockyer
Roy
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John Frank
George Nelles
Ida
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Ruth Nelson
Dominion Board of the W. M.S. of the United Church
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Morriston
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Dorothy Allan
Wm. Middleton
Murray Bielby
Niagara Falls
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Georgetown
National Council of Women
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Bing Ramsden
New York State
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GL. Gifford
Laura Reid
Masales
Jos. Reid
Chas. Landsborough
Acton Church
Baptist Young People's Convention
Shirley
Watson
R. P. Watson
W. Rae Watson
Thos. Perryaman
Brougham
David Maltby
Aberfoyle
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John Tolton
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Shawnee, Oklahoma
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