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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 15, 1925
Page
5
A poem by Samuel Stephenson invites readers to picture a tranquil farmyard. It contrasts animal calls with the distant meadow mulling over growth from sowing to harvesting while highlighting the daily rhythm of work and play.
Twenty years ago items include Ar William Brown buying the milk business from Adam Cook and Mrs Ixato Smith purchasing a Park Ave lot and residence from Thomas Burt Jr. A. J. Mackinnon opens an Georgetown office, Dan Patch races Toronto world record, and local property purchases continue. Injury reports, cheese factory talk, pavement work, and a obituary notice for Nancy Hills Kaley are noted.
A young lawyer with few clients relies on pawns to borrow money. His mother once supplied funds to redeem a gold watch given to him as a gift. The pawnshop owner asks for proof of ownership and reads an engraving that leads the story toward confession. A notice about watch sale or pawn appears, prompting a return home to disclose truth.
Excerpted guidance from My Magazine urges all-round fitness and inner balance. It highlights health as a foundation for strength and resilience, noting how endurance grows with consistent effort and breath control. It calls for emotional refinement and loyalty, balancing thought with action as essential virtues.
An elderly performer describes a past Cincinnati production where a young cast member noticed a cigarette prop. He recalls the moment of audience reaction and the child saying the actor was not supposed to be smoking, highlighting the disruption during a quiet scene.
The article discusses 1 Corinthians 13, titled The Greatest of These is Love. It outlines love as the supreme virtue surpassing tongues, prophecy, faith, charity, and martyrdom, and lists fifteen marks of love, emphasizing patience, kindness, humility, and truth, with notes on its permanence beyond spiritual gifts.
The Alpine Club of Canada reports a record year at Lake O Hara with 60 members climbing daily and trips over Abbot Pass. Captain MacCarthy, leader of the Mount Logan expedition, was made an honorary member, as the Canadian Pacific Railway hut at Abbot Pass facilitated climbs.
A Philadelphia girl gifts a neat town to the Crown Prince before the war. A cigarette smoke touches her face as a nearby Montagnant notes the scent lingers. She retorts a thistle remark, maintaining wit amid a tense social moment.
An American merchant and a poor scholarly English curate meet at a hotel in England. The American invites the curate to London and then to America, offering a guest stay and a state room, while the curate refuses to accept pay. The tale underscores that true gift meaning requires more than generosity.
A moral meditation advises cultivating silence to avert trouble and let wiser thoughts surface. It cites Moses and biblical instruction to be still, urging two minutes of daily silence and cooling written retorts for twenty four hours to allow cooler, better thoughts to arise.
An old laborer recalls a telegraph line build as he jokes about a wire delivery note to Cork. The tale ends with a worn pair hung on the line the next day and a quip about the “wonderful invention.” The piece then digresses into a garbled mention of a worm terminator and unrelated personal notes.
A country weekly experiments with phasing out letters in words ending in ugh to speed spelling. Readers criticize thru thro tho and thro. advertisers objection blocks reform. The editor concedes the reform is impossible and abandons the plan, conceding language change takes time.
Painless and perfect in their action Miller's Worm Powders are a reliable remedy for children showing worm symptoms. Symptoms include feverish restlessness and convulsions. after expelling worms the stomach and bowels are toned up into healthier condition.
An architectural curiosity at the University of Michigan features a whispering gallery longer than Gloucester Cathedral and St Pauls. The half oval passage near the north end of the art gallery carries whispers up to about 160 feet, discovered accidentally during building inspections by a student later on as a faculty member.
A group of women visited the Capitol to ask a Congress member for support on a matter labeled 2 0s. The energetic member offered to meet at the hotel in the evening. He urged they keep remarks short, promising to listen if they spoke briefly.
In Clamtown Cap'n Jotham Slow critiques the new minister's high talk while Cap'n Pegg, deaf, misses the message about the big fire of 1861. The exchange ends with Cap'n Slow translating the minister to Cap'n Pegg as the crowd listens for answers. A separate farm ad promotes Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a remedy for people and cattle.
An anecdote recalls Arthur Wellesley later the Duke of Wellington in India. At Calcutta breakfast he rejected a boiled egg, only to learn the cook mixed up an aide-de-camp's egg for him.
A columnist argues that every street contains all kinds of people from narrow minds to broad viewpoints. The piece questions snobbery, noting that big city or small town alike harbors people of every kind, including those fixated on business or fashion.
Ad copy notes asthma sufferers can end attacks with Dr. J. D. Ellogg’s Asthma Remedy. Claims it helps at once and lets users enjoy life again by defeating the ailment like a tyrant.
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