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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
10
A short poem features a 小clock dialogue urging urgency while praising steadiness in adulthood. The piece contrasts a small clock with a great clock and questions which guidance to follow. The narrator, M D Cole, uses numbers as a refrain to explore timing and life choices.
Notes from the Free Press page recounts WD Frick selling a Mill Street property to James Firstbrook, several fast autos passing through town, Dr A T Hore moving into Perryman block office on Mill and John Streets, Matthews returning from Denver, Brampton bowling match, I T Wedget planning a Friday auction of watches and jewelry, Rev J A Robinson leaving St Albans Church, John Clark Sr sailing to England, Chester Matthews promoted to head office in Denver, and a successful Fair with 4000 attendees, notable concerts and entertainers from Toronto.
The article contrasts incomes from two dollars a day to twenty thousand dollars a year, noting how spending grows with income and new needs arise. It urges measuring needs carefully and judging others kindly, recognizing that wealth does not guarantee ease.
The Queen of Italy once asked a smiling girl what she could make in needlework. The child confessed she could not knit, but the queen urged her to craft stockings. The girl sent two stockings, one filled with sweets and another with money, prompting a tearful reply that the money and stockings were shared with her family.
Mrs Lane enraged recalls advice from a magazine about a stain solution and overnight table cloth treatment. Her sister interjects with meek remarks as the exchange devolves into a dispute over vanished stains and what happened to the table cloth.
A historic ad copy touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as effective both externally and internally. It promises to open pores, touch the coat of trouble, and relieve throat irritation and bronchial coughing with immediate comfort.
In Corinth Paul conducts a revival in a city of commerce and vice. He allies with Aquila and Priscilla and works with his hands while preaching the word. Facing opposition, he is urged by the Lord to persevere for I have many people in this city.
A columnist urges mothers to protect children from parasite infestation. The piece promotes a product called Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a remedy, arguing clean environments and timely treatment keep youngsters sound and thriving.
Two Americans Joii Edwin Hoag and Frank S Witten completed most of a coast to coast trip in an 18 foot Transcontinental motor boat. They started May 20 from Astoria Oregon traveling via the Columbia and Missouri rivers to Lake Michigan and on to Montreal. They faced a sunken log tear to sterns and endured tornadoes and rapids on their 2280 mile route before reaching Montreal and the Montcalm.
The Philadelphia Press recounts how Cornelius Vanderbilt, a lifelong friend of Samuel Barton, learned of Barton’s distress and wealth decline. Vanderbilt quietly provided a large sum to secure Barton's family's future, after a heartfelt talk where Barton expressed fear for his heirs. Barton found peace, bade his family goodbye, and then died, exhausted.
In a small Alpine inn, the landlord boasts of a distant waterfall’s roar heard from the table as ladies chat, claiming an elusive famous guest is missing. The scene centers on local chatter and the lure of natural sights over celebrity presence.
A bulletin from the Fruit Branch of the Department of Agriculture in Ottawa urges Canadians to adopt apples as a daily staple. It highlights mineral salts and acids, the nutritive carbohydrate content, and the changing starch to sugar as the fruit ripens. It lists preferred varieties by month from Duchess and St Lawrence in September to Spitzenburg and Roma Beauty in spring, urging households to stock Canadian apples year round.
A Victorian household uses Norah Lanihan as a maid and pupil. Mrs Hanson and family mock and correct her while exposing her ignorance beyond domestic duties. Norah questions her shoes as snow melts, yet remains polite and practical in a melting snow day.
A compact statement defines Christianity as kindness at home honesty in business courtesy in society fairness at work pity toward the unfortunate help for the weak resistance toward wickedness trust toward the strong forgiveness toward the penitent congratulation toward the fortunate reverence and love toward God.
The article recalls a Liverpool cashier who found a banknote message revealing that John Dean’s brother was a prisoner in Alglora. Dean secured his brother’s release after government aid and a ransom payment. It also notes parasitic worms in children and endorses Miller’s Worm Powders to restore digestion and health.
In Potterville Mr. Ozi Ransome debates a physician bill after three days of illness in New York. His wife argues it’s extortion, but he stays cheerful, praising Providence and noting the sick spell could have kept him in bed six months. The asthma sufferer seeks relief from Dr Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy.
A diary-style note observes aged individuals proving mental vigor. Queen Victoria learned a little Hindu dustan late in life. Others reportedly tackled difficult tasks, such as learning the alphabet at sixty and more. A septuagenarian entered a South London YMCA branch seeking immediate enrollment, explaining at seventy-four years old he must hurry with anything he plans to do.
A defense lawyer in London last summer orders two eggs with a unique twist, insisting one fried on each side. The waiter repeats the request, then clarifies the order as the American confirms his precise phrasing. After a dispute over the eggs being scrambled, the exchange becomes a humorous miscommunication tale.
In a humorous exchange, Mrs. Ascrath Harper resists aging notions while wearing youthful attire. A neighbor calls her “sheen dressed lamb fashion” as she chats with young girls, correcting a misheard remark about being “a centur yien.”
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