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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 11, 1920
Page
6
A garbled notice requests the return of three grain grinders taken from a church location on a Sunday evening. It lists Maple Leaf chop parts and choppers with inch plate sizes and mentions Rotan and an address or person named Paul F. Kennedy, seeking reclaim of the items.
The article details Father Gondrow and Father Conway engaging parishioners at St Josaph's Church with talks on church history and Catholic doctrine. It notes scheduled services and upcoming themes including The Minsdom of Jad, The Church and the Will of God, The Papacy, and Why Learn Catholic faith.
Local draft of community notes lists memorials for Mrg A Winterburn, a partial solar eclipse seen in the area, upcoming church events including a harvest paring bee and Methodist services, a cricket of civic improvements like water works, and social notes on candidates, a new hospital and a proposed rifle battalion band. It also mentions a mayoral family, medical practitioners, school milestones, and a charity euchre event with proceeds.
Fragmented society notes and local notices list sales travel and engagements. Names include Duncan Moulrego, Mrs A McNabb, Miss Maury Bonnett, Marjorie Calllac, Laure Edna McPhall, and others. Mentions Ontario friends, air and rail travel, and postwar recovered forces association.
A meeting of Halton and Wentworth weekly papers formed the Halton Wentworths Association to set a uniform subscription price. Officials include president W Y Vieuty and secretary E A Harris. main goal to raise rates to 4.00 for Halton and Wentworth papers, with 3.00 for other plans, and to coordinate summer gatherings and member services. The group aims to unify pricing and promote member papers across the two counties.
A cryptic, damaged OCR fragment mentions din and headland, Lecail, Ningvah and Tyrol Judge, and asks to spare Yat and Yowt. The text is shallow, with unclear context and no coherent event or date to identify a clear news item or outcome.
An inquest heard Inspector Ney and others examine the fatal shooting at the Chappell House in Handwick near Windsor. J Velverly Trumble, proprietor, fired on Horacktin in a confrontation after an attempted entry. Horacktin died from a bullet wound. The jury found Trumble acted in self defense citing Ontario temperance enforcement and entered the hotel under urgent circumstances.
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