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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1940
Page
14
The passage discusses the long dispute over who deserves credit for the invention of movable type. It notes scholars’ doubts about fixing the true origin and mentions Gutenberg, Coster, Mentelin, and Schoeffer as claimants in the enduring debate.
A retrospective note lists events from October 7 1920 in Acton Ontario. The piece mentions storm damage from a heavy snow, real estate transfers including Mrs Julia McArthur purchasing a Church Street roughcast house, cattle sale prices at John Ruddick’s sale, a Ramblers Company concert, a new receiving storehouse for the Tannery Co operative Store, and several birth marriage and death notices from the community. It records the BORN JOHNSTONE in Saskatoon, MARRIED notices for George Murray and Annie M, Fisher-Butler, Lindsay-McDonald, plus a DIED notice for George McBain.
An editorial survey celebrates the Editor as a hub of joys and duties from marriage notices to deaths and welcomes. It lauds support for merchants, churches, schools, and civic projects while inviting readers to subscribe and advertise. The piece ends with a call: DO YOU?
A tired older sportsman visits a doctor who prescribes carrot in any amount. After a month he returns bursting with health. The doctor praises the carrot and urges continuation, while the patient admits he had been drinking three bottles a day for four weeks.
A father gently tells his son that nations lack formal diplomatic relations in a brief, dialogue driven vignette. The exchange centers on the concept of diplomacy and distance between countries.
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