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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1940
Page
6
The creator cites the quest to date the origins of printing in books and records. Despite efforts, doubts remain over who earned the palm, with partisans favoring Gutenberg, Coster, Mentelin, or Schoeffer as the most honored pioneer.
Snow damage and local happenings from the October 7 1920 Free Press issue. Notable items include fruit tree losses from a heavy snow, real estate transactions in Rockwood and Acton, a concert at Town Hall, and several marriages and a death in Acton. Birth announced in Saskatoon.
The piece extols the editor as a community narrator and booster who welcomes strangers reports deaths celebrates weddings and births promotes commerce and civic projects and offers guidance and sympathy. It asks readers if they subscribe and support through advertising.
A worn out sportsman consults a doctor who prescribes carrot in any amount. A month later the patient returns in bursting health. The doctor advises to carry on with the carrot while the patient protests insisting he had been drinking three bottles daily for four weeks.
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