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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
13
An excerpt presents a moral verse urging personal truth and sincere speech. It emphasizes a generous heart and genuine living as the path to a noble creed. The text resembles a traditional moral meditation.
Clipped items note a 74 degree shade reading on Monday. A Juniors Baseball Team reorganized for 1919 with Honorary President W A Storey and officers W Arnold Robinn Scott Roy Brown Neil McNabb Frank McIntosh George Hynds Jr. John McPhee of Toronto visited Acton after 35 years. Acton Epworth League hosted a Georgetown trip and Empire Day concert at Town Hall. Prizes were given for essays by young authors. Red Cross banquet honored returned soldiers with a musical program. McGaughlin Roache: Joseph Henry McGaughlin wed Agnes Roache in Cheswick England April 30 1919.
In Hygeia MacKaye classifies headaches as mechanical toxic and functional. He links headaches to sinus issues eye defects injuries and poisons from substances and foods and notes migraine as a distinct form with triggers including foods allergies and heredity. A new drug orgotamine is said to help migraine but should be prescribed by a doctor.
A turn through Acton on Church Street recalls vacant lots, early settlers, and long-vanished houses. Palmer Martin built and sold brick homes then moved on, while the Gurneys and Ismonds left a village-marked trail of farming life, local lamplighting, and tales of a crowing rooster.
The lesson notes Pauls desire to visit Rome to impart spiritual gifts and establish believers. It stresses his broad view of ministry beyond Christians, as he feels debtor to all people and unashamed of the Gospel, believing its power for both learned and unlearned alike.
A correspondent asks about cancer in animals and whether cooking meat would remove danger. The reply states cancer does not transfer between species, is not infectious like TB, and poses no risk from handling or close contact. Human cancer is a cellular growth process with many causes, not a germ infection.
A tramp sleeping on a golf course green was roused by a prowling secretary who ordered him to leave. The tramp asked who the man was and received the reply that he was the club secretary. The tramp quipped that this was no way to gain new members.
Customer seeks return after a washing machine injures them with paddles that knock them off their feet every time they use it. Salesman asks about the problem as the argument unfolds.
An advertisement note from Halton's Leading Weekly offers placement in The Free Press with contact via phone 174. The snippet promotes advertising services and emphasizes the paper as part of a trusted local marketplace.
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