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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1922
Page
4
In rough dialect a town imagines a grand church with ten thousand attendees at dedication. Plans include organs, pews, and a festival with cake and pastries, funded by rent and taxes, while women keep faith and ministers guide the project. The piece notes costs, fundraising, and civic pride.
The Acton Municipal Council heard 300 ratepayers in a protest against licensing a billiard room. Councillors Henderson and Swackhamer had proposed the measure, but the deputation secured a firm hearing and the council pledged no billiard room while in office.
The text discusses distinguishing meanings of the words aultelont and enough, with a student named Tammy explaining how the terms relate to self-control about eating. The fragment indicates a classroom note on language and usage.
A damaged OCR prose piece recounts a mother enforcing obedience, a trapdoor incident, and a missing Aunt Mary during a tense family gathering. The text then veers into old stylistic notes on punctuation, with scattered lines about advice and moral maxims.
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