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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1919
Page
5
A fragmented text presents a speaker asking if one is Voice or Australian, German or Danish, and lists many nationalities. The passage ends with a defiant line about fate and identity in a land of mortality.
Twenty years ago notes report varied community items including Evelyn McKeown as teacher in Munnook Horn Heboo, local amateur photographers, and a church debate on benevolence. John J. Lawson buys two lots at Church and Willow, building a carpenter shop on the front lot. Dwellings and additions noted on Mali Brevet and Kennedy Stone area. Indian basket makers leave Arthur district, moving to Keena Street and the old Yayninion Lime Kiln. Obituaries list Lizzie Mann and Althea Shorey with ages given.
A fourteen year old lad arrives at Euston with little money and no London friends. A kindly lawyer learns his tale and offers a chance to prove himself as a faithful and honest worker. The boy, Sandy, seeks to honor his mother’s wish to earn his fortune honestly.
An OCR passage describes a near new device with crossbar components and weights, detailing parts like dirks and bright items. It mentions balancing artisans and disks and predicts adjustments to improve a treaty, attributed to My vanus Vayi Akou.
A modern tonic or remedy is promoted as a definitive cure for asthma. The text cites numerous letters praising the product and urges readers to obtain it from local dealers. The account frames it as a positive breakthrough for asthmatic sufferers.
Sunday School lesson summarizes Jesus washing the disciples feet as a lesson in humility holiness and helpful service. It links the event to John 13 1 16 and Matthew 20 28 and provides departmental topics memory verses and next week readings. The piece includes a note on false pride among the twelve and calls for unity and mutual edification.
An elderly woman in a crowded scene prompts a reproachful request to settle a fare. The narrative wanders through joking accusations and a call for a remedy described as Miller’s Worm Powder to expel harmful traders. The passage remains fragmented and diagnostic in tone.
A garbled nervous exchange shows a kiosk merchant in Chicago hearing panicked pleas from men wandering the street about finding temporary labor. They seek quick jobs for a few weeks, mentioning starvation and wage doubts.
The article notes a gas lamp that outperforms standard incandescent lighting for interior photography. A 200 watt lamp can light a room in a fraction of the time, enabling clear indoor images with shorter exposures.
Fragmentary line shows misread text with garbled phrases about boys and girls and a quoted segment. No clear event or names to confirm a coherent news item.
The text notes bamboo in Japan and China grows up to two feet daily and can reach heights of 160 feet with two foot diameters. It spreads rapidly, replacing many household items, providing building material, furniture, and food, and serving in awnings, tools, baskets, paper, and more.
A 1919 temperance revival recounts early 20th century push towards bans on alcohol. It notes a 25 cent fine rule, legal strictures, and reformists across Canada and Ontario, citing religious resolve, public campaigns, and business pressure shaping the temperance arc. The author pledges support and cites biblical justification for prohibition as inevitable.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Dr Thome and Belsctrid Oll with odd phrasing about travel and attention. Details are unreadable. no clear event date place or organization emerges.
Turtles lay hundreds of eggs and a strange line about Heithils sled the tard appears. Prowling wheat in the Andes, a stock market recap and a watch wheel count are mentioned with odd figures. Holloway's Corn Cure is touted as painless for crows.
Fragmentary notice details freight and express service labeled Kexpress with daily and special axpress freight, pickup offered at many addresses in Toronto. Mentions Sundays and holidays with obscure timing cues and agent TAGNEW, Axgont, Acton.
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