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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 27, 1926
Page
4
The Acton Free Press reprints a poem from the record Herald noting constant worry through the year from May to December. It jokes that worrying cannot change outcomes and mentions woes from disaster and poor treatment as examples of futility.
Twenty years ago the Free Press notes that two to three hundred Acton residents traveled to Georgetown for a race on the twenty fourth. It also mentions the Denney estate sale at Erin farm with Fred Gilk Denney the purchaser at 4100 dollars and reports new Main Street pavements and a cement foot bridge near Farmer Street. A lacrosse game in the park ended Acton 9 Glen Williams 1. The Methodist Sunday School program under Miss Amy L Doty impressed attendees. Negotiations were under way to secure Doty for next year. A Burlington Methodist Church wedding united Mabel Louisa Williamson and Herbert H Bingham on May 23 1926 with notable family involvement.
The article explains rogueing as removing undesirable plants from potato seed to maintain health and standard quality. It cites the Garnet Chill potato grown in Nova Scotia for Bermuda seed, noting leaf blotch disease and the 1921–1922 push by the Plant Disease Inspection Service to improve seed. It highlights that by 1926 Bermuda reported no complaints and best seed, while warns against excessive rogueing and stresses early thorough removal to prevent spread of disease and insect transfer.
A newsboy and a doctor story illustrates the French saying about good turns. A physician who moved uptown once gave a fever patient free papers. now the boy slips papers under the door each morning and evening, asking only to be understood. The doctor later offers payment, but the boy refuses, insisting on his simple kindness.
A crew of engineers travels Kentucky countryside visiting farmhouses for surveys. They stop at a shabby cabin for dinner where the hostess laments missing cutlery as children amusingly argue they are all present by name. A boy points to guests named Big Butch Little Butch Case Knife and Stub.
Fragmented text recounts a misread scene aboard a train at Ottawa. A porter questions a passenger about a map and Canadian geography, with garbled dialogue and stray foreign phrases. The passage preserves no clear events or identifiable people.
A Sunday School lesson analyzes Jacob’s deceitful background and fear as he flees to Haran. It explores his dream of God as the moment of divine encounter and the moral takeaway that God can work through a flawed man. It ends with study questions and daily readings.
The Garden Railway project showcases thousands of trees shrubs and perennials shipped across the Canadian Pacific Railway. Gardens are tended by employees from locomotives to bunkhouses with prizes like the general manager's cup and district awards driving horticultural competition. During the Great War about 2009 gardens were converted to vegetable plots supplying food for overseas troops.
Garden writer W. T. Macoun outlines spring to autumn bloom strategies for borders. He lists bulbous and perennial plants suited to successive seasons and notes varieties for continuous color into October, advising careful planning and plant choices.
An elderly Madam Reynolds, living in Ife, remains sharp despite age. Her tactless nephew Thomas plans a world voyage lasting two years and asks to bid farewell. She presses him to confirm the doctor’s prognosis, hinting at anxieties over his longevity.
A collage of quotes from McKinley Traherne Moore Rutherford Johnson Greville and Henry on habit, virtue, charity, and perseverance. The ad copy closes with a Holloway's Corn Remover promotion promising scarless corn relief.
A teacher visits a small boy's home after catching him in lies. The mother objects, a plan to alert the boy fails, and a clever ruse brings him to attention. An ad for Dr J D Kellogg asthma remedy claims wide success across continents and years.
A homey rhubarb recipe notes its value and flavor. It describes washing peeling and cutting rhubarb cooking it gently in enamelware then sweetening with sugar and cinnamon. The shortcake combines flour baking powder salt shortening milk and egg with a rhubarb filling and whipped cream topping.
A minister announced tomorrow afternoon a funeral service for a Mr. So-gnd-S3e, to be held in the church where he will appear for the first time in twenty years. The minister said he will deliver the funeral address on the occasion.
A Scottish Nights tale recounts an Irishwoman rushing a lawyer to obtain a continuance for her son’s burglary trial. The lawyer asks for grounds to delay and, after agreeing to try, drops the case, leaving his plans unclear and the old woman’s next move unknown.
A Washington Star excerpt cites English novelist Miss Bradden who recently died and reportedly earned $500,000 from her books. The piece notes her concern with truth in fiction and includes a humorous exchange about telling the truth in a conversation with her husband George, highlighting the tension between honesty and storytelling.
Mr Pozen snidely questions why papers lack a Manx Page prompting Mrs Porenby to respond. The dialogue mocks gendered sections as they reference a page devoted to prize-fighting horse racing and similar pursuits.
An advertisement extols Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as the cheapest of all preparations, claiming it is sold in every drug store across Canada and available from reliable merchants. It urges the public to obtain a bottle at a moderate price.
Entomologist L. C. Davis warns the European corn borers threaten the corn industry with losses averaging over ten percent of crop value. The piece urges immediate post harvest destruction of breeding grounds, deep spring plowing, and crop rotation to curb the pest’s spread and protect yields.
A fragment from a public school scene shows a teacher asking a girl to name her brother and hearing the pupil insist their names are Ralph and Edith Johnson. The exchange hints at family roles and misunderstandings among young students.
An old advertisement touts Dr Thomas Electrical remedy as a world famed treatment for sore throat and inflammation. It asserts topical application heals skin conditions and internal use is possible, promising rapid relief and widespread acceptance across the Dominion.
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