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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1929
Page
5
A reflective verse celebrates the home town and its charm. It contrasts local friends with distant places, praising familiar faces and the warmth of hometown life over wealth or travel. The poem muses on memory, belonging, and the pull of the familiar.
Local items report discontinuation of brewer John Renie at Breard’s flock and new double dwelling on Main Street. Dr Morehay retires practice selling goodwill to Dr Holmes of London Ontario. Mamie Masalen returns from a lacey agnonths visit in the Old Country. Harvest supper at St Albans Church praised by Rev R Kelleman with Methodist pulpit, Lord’s Day Alltuner officiant. Salvation Army Territorial Band from Toronto visited Acton playing at Mill and Willow.
A fragment from a Sunday School page recounts a winter journey to Mandan North Dakota with the Circle S Ranch team. The text blends memoir of a storm battered crossing with Jack the cattle dog and the rescue of cattle and men, then shifts to a study guide on debts of love cooperation and service. It also includes a long lesson outline on debts of upbuilding, love, service, sin, and calving tied to biblical passages and Nehemiah Mark Colossians and Philippians with practical applications.
The Public Utilities Commission session, chaired by King with Reeve Musa present, ordered payments to Bell Telephone, Jones & Moore Electric, Slater Co., Acton Tanning, Neptune Metre, and several others. discussions covered waterworks and hydro department operations. A lengthy household medicine ad and recipes follow, interwoven with notices of local improvements and past due accounts.
A hazy historical text discusses early forms of news reporting in Rome and Ostia, mentioning Caesar Cicero and Acta Diurna. It cites ancient writing slaves, scribes, and a laboring press system, with tangled dialogue about individuals and a modern interview context embedded in the narrative.
The report recalls Acton and District A Corn Toant Mro and Mrs AL HL Bishop hosting St Alban's Choir and a Friday night roast on Jarden Avenue. It also notes a railway crossing at Mill Street and mentions Dr Albert Moore visiting London and Toronto, with talks on faith and order and a large Pilgrim reception.
Daily timetable fragment lists unusual names and times for acton service with entries such as 10.17 a.m. and 4.19 p.m. alongside Toronto terminal at Keele Street and St Clair Avenue freight notes about special express delivery and pickup at Eyan Cress in Toronto.
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