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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
11
Thanksgiving poem by Nancy Byrd Turner reflecting on seasonal harvests and gratitude. The piece lists apples pumpkins chestnuts corn and wheat and expresses thankfulness for health hope and home. It evokes a rural, nostalgic mood with images of a kind earth and friendship during Thanksgiving.
A playful holiday verse lists letters with feasting themes from turkey to marmalade and fruit. The poem notes kitchen, spices, vines, and later illness, ending with gratitude.
Twenty years ago J J Holland disposed of the Albion Hotel to Samuel Lasby for 6300 dollars. Lasby takes possession next week. A private telephone system linking Reeve's office, municipal residence, and power house is installed. Main Street bridge railings renewed. The Book Committee travels to Toronto to select library additions. New officers elected for the library link project include Hon. President A Beardmore and President W A Storey with a full executive and rink committees listed.
The Ontario Honey Producers Co operative, led by general manager A G Halstead, opened new markets in Great Britain Holland and Germany after a 1923 Europe visit. It established definite grades and distinctive packaging, with Ontario honey winning at the London Dairy Show annually. The co operative closes its third seasonal pool and holds its annual meeting in Toronto today November 5.
The piece argues education centers on character and habits. It urges parents to cultivate virtues early, including honesty, kindness, selflessness, duty to God and society, respect for authority, neatness, truth telling, and diligent study, with aims toward good citizenship and thoughtful behavior.
A sober Figaro tale from Paris describes a mistress and her maid at a post office window. The servant sticks out her tongue as ordered to rub gum on a stamp, drawing giggles from onlookers and reflecting fashionable excess. The piece ends with a jab at recent counterculture and a lurid advertisement.
Sermon notes on Pauls farewell to the Ephesian elders from Acts 20 25 38 and the Golden Text about giving to the weak. Emphasizes self examination vigilance against false teachers feeding the flock with the whole counsel of God and the value of unselfish giving.
A fragment shows a grocer replying to a customer asking if eggs are fresh. The grocer quips that if they were any fresher they would be impudent, hinting at hurried or casual speech and a rural market setting.
Canadian Pacific president E W Beatty leads directors on a cross country tour from Windsor Station Montreal to Toronto and westward through Winnipeg Saskatoon Edmonton Calgary to the coast and Vancouver Island. He notes improved grain movement, strong rail readiness, rising immigration interest, and booming tourist trade in the Rockies with new ships and hotel upgrades.
Advance notices say the 26th International Live Stock Show Exposition in Chicago from November 28 to December 5 will smash records. More than ten thousand horses cattle sheep and swine enter contests for supreme honors with international judges and strong Canadian entries.
A collage of aphorisms and reflections from Fuller Disraeli Hore Temple Bunyan and Lavater. The quotes explore generosity manners prayer self control and trust highlighting timeless moral guidance.
A passage warns that success comes to those who act while detailing a personal traits that fear doubt and blame hinder progress. It then advertises Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a versatile remedy for pain colds wounds rheumatism and exposure, urged for home and travel use.
A reader shares practical advice for making a digestible hot supper for children who bring cold lunches to school. Vegetable soup with milk uses carrots potatoes and a little onion simmered soft then pureed into creamy milk warmed with the vegetables. Served with toast or crackers it forms a nourishing complete meal.
A vivid anecdote shows a sharp host flatly correct a boastful guest amid a lively crowd. The piece shifts to a health ad praising Dr J D Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy, claiming relief from irritated airways and restored breathing with numerous testimonials.
In a 1924 Ottawa report, R J Hutchinson notes Western Ontario yields of fibre and seed rose sharply with exceptional fibre up to 339 pounds per acre and seed at 16 bushels per acre. Prices ranged from 30 cents per pound for fibre to 2.40 to 2.65 per bushel for seed, signaling strong demand and profits for about 6000 bushels in growers' hands.
A girl shares a long story with a friend who warns secrecy. The exchange shows how individuals differ in confidences and the reluctance to disclose sensitive matters. The vignette suggests people keep their own counsel in important issues.
An ancient tale attributes one of the oldest jokes to King Archelaus of Macedon who asked a barber how to cut his hair and was told to use a comb to part it. The humor centers on a playful barber reply about applying a “pilitet” style as a joke.
A chalkboard exchange features a professor testing students on electric basics and a witty corridor retort about a conductor’s use. The dialogue hints at foundational terms like wire and watt in a playful classroom moment.
The promotional text touts Miller's Worm Powders as having strong motherly endorsement and claims the product works effectively for those who use it. It stresses public testimony and perceived virtue of the medicine, presenting the powders as self-asserting in their efficacy.
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