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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 27, 1926
Page
8
A 1926 Acton Prep Press piece evokes friendship and service in a handclasp pledge. It celebrates helping others, fellowship, and shared effort to improve the world with brief verses attributed to Nesbit.
A 1912 Charlottetown Experimental Station trial covered three acres showing a three year weed control rotation. First year hoed crop with heavy manure, second year grain with clover and timothy, third year clover hay, followed by topworking to prevent weeds. The method reduced solidago, yarrow, ox eye daisy and black eyed Susan. couch grass persisted occasionally.
The critic Coleridge argued with a peddler about saying old clothes. The peddler replied that saying old clothes ten times a minute would wear him out and Coleridge, moved by the remark, gave him a shilling, the only one he had.
Miss Mehitable Lamson of Willowby refuses to endure pain for tooth extraction with two teeth removed. She fears inability to eat during a busy Willowby Inn season and questions the dentist about alternative care. The exchange ends with acceptance of limited feeding options until relief or new teeth can be fitted.
A tale recounts Charles V of France, called The Wise, objecting to the dial showing four as four ones. Henry Vick’s clock, sent to him for checking, prompts the king’s insistence on correction. The clockmaker changes IV to TV, yielding today’s numerals.
A rough shorthanded excerpt from The Argonaut describes a head of a firm testing five applicants for an errand boy post. He asks a general knowledge question about the distance to the moon. One applicant jokes with a rough estimate that it is far enough to avoid interruption, highlighting a humorous office moment.
A nostalgic verse fragment tells of an Irish emigrant aboard an early Bay morning journey. He recalls Mary his bride, the green corn and lark, and the grave separating them. The piece accompanies a Belfast letter about school memories and Lord Dufferin era Canada, framing emigration themes with personal reminiscence.
The diary recollects Charles Dickens as a Morning Chronicle reporter for Lord Derby’s career, riding posts between stations to deliver verbatim speeches. Dickens endured sickness to transcribe speeches, using slips of paper and improvised rests at the coach window. Stanley pressed for review of a speech, but Dickens recalls knee writing in the House and pacing the desk as he spoke.
Dean Hole recounts how repetitive anthems bored first bishop Samuel Seabury during a Middletown church visit. Eight repetitions of a psalm line provoked the remark that the running melody hindered attention, with Seabury joking about Agron’s head.
Dietitians label early rhubarb as healthy now and advise serving once or twice weekly while in season. Prepare by stewing with prune juice water and rhubarb in a double boiler, then sweeten with sugar and orange juice, add tapioca and cooked prunes, cool and serve with cream.
A long ago rail incident tells of a train stopping suddenly after warnings when an old farmer was found apparently lifeless. He regains awareness and asks if he is hurt, learning one leg might be lost but others are fine, while he assesses the situation and the engineer. He quips the accident could be worse, noting it is the rheumatism that hurts.
The piece contrasts the lure of peace with the rush of modern life. It argues tranquility is not mere indolence but poised self mastery guiding effort toward meaningful aims, noting two paths: inherited calm and earned inner mastery shaping lasting achievement.
Dean Dean Dean Dean Hole of Rochester Cathedral lectures on Bores and Impostors. He mocks social bores who talk endlessly and cites a cartoonish exchange about Danes and skin on cathedral doors. He contrasts the bore with the idle bore who wastes afternoons with idle talk about trivial matters.
A sensational claim touts Dr Leonhardt's internal remedy Hem-Roid as a cure for piles. The ad asserts years of research revealing the cause and offers a money back guarantee through E J Hassard and all druggists to persuade readers to buy today.
Notice to creditors of Mary Storey and Elizabeth Storey of Acton Widlow died 1926 61 Rushbrook Ave Toronto. Creditors must send full names addresses and claim details to executor Jeremiary Bell by June 21 1926. Solicitor H N Farmer Acton Ontario.
In a tale from a biography of P. T. Barnum, a Yankee lady visits the museum to view the whales. Barnum claims she alone guessed the deception of the rising whales powered by India rubber and a bellows system.
A quoted guideline for journalists urges reporters to seek both sides of an issue. The Marion Morning Star notes quarrels arise when one side is championed without listening to the other. The rule of reconciliation asks to go halfway and bear both views.
Public auction set for May 27 1526 at 3 pm on the Sydney Smith Estate in Acton Halton County. About 64 percent acres of land include two 2 storey stone houses 12 rooms four bathrooms a servant bungalow and grounds with spring water. Terms require 10 percent down with balance in 30 days.
Auctioneer to sell May 27 1926 at 1 pm the estate of the late Mrs GC G Smith at Fairview Place Acton household contents include walnut beds chairs tables rugs desks sofas linen dishes and silver plus pictures books kitchenware and an electric stove all to be sold for cash terms.
The inventory sale notice lists Kerr Auctioneers and Plank Clerk with further particulars to be obtained from H WN Farmer barrister or from FL BP Boore and William Gowdy executors of the estate. The fragment indicates auction action and names multiple executors and officers.
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