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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Nov 10, 1938

Page

3

Doctor Traynor joins Caribbean cane medical mission

In a Dominican port Maynard Traynor, junior doctor for Tropical Sugar Co, aids malaria and dengue patients as plans grow for a larger hospital. He aids El Lobo, a Puerto Rican bandit, to secure care for a crippled child and wins a hospital position with promotion for two.

Traynor Doctor Lindley Tropical Company Maynard Company Tme New York Tropical_Sugar Banto Dominiongo Lindley Domingo Rodriguez Rodrigues Arek Rodraguez el Lobo Senor Wolf Domingo Rodrigues Jon Eecnar Puerto Rean Virginia Lobo Caribbean Cane Rodriguez Snowden Tropical

Fair Exchange at the Manse Observe Practical Bargain

A couple marries with a clergyman present then discuss payment for a gas meter. The bridegroom thanks the officiant and offers to fix the meter so it will register, while the demyman reassures him that the debt can wait. The exchange reflects a frugal, improvised wedding day bargain.

Unclear exchange on papers about accident and death

A fragment shows a dialogue where one asks about morning papers reporting an automobile accident and a death, and another mentions reading the accounts and asks where the speaker is calling from now.

Alford Jeffery

Man on Highway Horns Meet Farm TractorBattle on Ather lay Bridge

A farmer driving a loaded manure spreader on a bridge near Orillia faced a motorist who repeatedly honked and provoked him. The farmer escalated to full operation of the spreader, sending a cloud of manure over the car. The motorist fled in a stalled vehicle as the farmer kept moving. The dapper driver accused the farmer, who retorted that the stuff would fertilize corn and rode off.

Bedlam Atherlay ‘Bridge Orillia

Peculiar Train Shoe Find Confounds Porter

A Morning on an American train yields a shoe oddity when a passenger discovers a black shoe under a bunk and a tan shoe beside it. The porter exclaims in bewilderment that the error is unprecedented and unusual for the day.

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