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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
3
The Acton Free Press prints a Thanksgiving hymn praising flowers grass sky air and trees. The verse thanks Father in Heaven for home love guidance health shelter and friends and attributes the lines to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In Hillsboro a conservative Deacon Baldwin resists church renovations including a new pipe organ. His granddaughter returns from Boston to play the organ as Baldwin trains a twenty-voice chorus for rededication, bridging three generations of musical service. The community recognizes the value of change and tradition.
The Cincinnati Enquirer recounts a quizzing episode where a man named Smith, dining at a well known restaurant, is questioned by Claude who tends the rack. When Smith asks for his hat Claude insists it is the hat he received from Smith on arrival.
A young man with a speech impediment visits a stammerer's clinic seeking treatment. He asks for a partial course and, in stilted speech, explains he wants enough therapy to avoid embarrassment when buying an item from a florist. The professor notes the main chance in the Independent report.
The poem recalls seasonal shifts from winter to autumn with city life and northern lands framing a longing for forest hills. In the prose piece a woman Mary recounts visiting Robert's family in the city and how her auntly pride and resolve turn a tense stay into a warm, humorous visit with Phil and family.
A 1866 account recounts a tense Johnson Grant exchange over a Mexico mission. Grant declines a ministerial post, citing civil service obligations, while Seward reads instructions. The session ends with Grant leaving as Sherman is later sent to Mexico.
A traveler seeking service in a parlor car is rebuked by a porter who insists etiquette requires being called porter not by his first name. He offers his card if the passenger truly wants his name, prompting the man to retreat flustered and chastened.
A middle aged couple plans a city trip but faces a prank as their grown children fill their satchels with rice. The bags spill on opening causing amused reactions while a stout German woman comments boldly about her own upcoming health changes.
The brothers clash with a larger boy next door and often lose. A sobbing Willie asks if he has a new brother, and the aunt confirms Jim has a new brother. The boy vows to move if they cannot defeat him with friends at hand.
A worker tested air in a deep well using a candle and a tied umbrella rig. The candle went out six feet from the bottom, signaling toxic gas. After later candles burned, the man concluded the gas was carbonic acid gas, heavier than air, warning coworkers.
The article details a town or country sports frock worn in many settings. It describes a model with a blouse and four-piece skirt attached to a long waisted bodice. Materials list medium size yardages for 54 inch and 36 inch lining.
Acton notes a mix of council matters and social items. Meetings discuss housing plans and leisure facilities while fines are levied for drunkenness and disorderly behavior. Harvest services, fire brigade activity, and local debates emphasize community life in Acton during October.
The council meets to discuss the purchase of Gunnerabury Park as a public pleasure ground and to nominate a mayor for the year. Town Clerk W Hodgen reports a delayed start due to surgery. Alderman R J Hewett's nomination is confirmed by a large majority amid party alignment.
A Michigan correspondent tells of a farmer’s dog who carried a written order to the butcher and, with a blank slip, caused the butcher to overcharge the farmer. The dog’s sausage craving led to repeated visits, and the farmer boasted of the canine’s intelligence as he settled the bill.
Young people satisfied with filling their roles risk losing employment as machines replace routine labor. The piece argues that mechanical effort lacks fore sight, enterprise, and loyalty, and warns that repeated rote work invites automation. Set personal safety in authentic effort machines cannot supply.
A doctor asks for a convalescent diet list and seeds noted as good for healing. A child, faced with berry shortages, brings a homemade jam substitute made from raspberries and jelly. The invalid hesitantly eats it and finds it lovely, despite not being real berries.
Preparations begin in 1926 for The Youths Companion hundredth anniversary issue. The 1927 edition will cost $2 with expanded content including 9 serials, mysteries, adventures, Make It and Do It pages, radio and puzzles plus the Children’s Page. Subscriptions from Boston Mass S N Dept.
advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Extract Tablets as a solution for thin or weak people. It claims flesh gains, cites a case of 16 pounds in five weeks, and offers a money back guarantee if a 30 day target isn’t met. Ends urging buying from druggists and pharmacists across North and South America.
November offers early Christmas card selections with the finest range yet. Prices range from 1.75 to 280 per dozen, with many designs featuring handsome lined envelopes and engraved or typed name printing included.
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